Saturday’s racist massacre at a Buffalo supermarket, in which a young white supremacist was accused, and left 10 dead in the black community, was thoroughly prepared over several months on Discord forums and 4Chan sites, revealed the media went through hundreds of messages on the Internet from the alleged killer.
Upper New York city police chief Joseph Gramaglia announced Monday night that the alleged killer had made a reconnaissance trip to Lake Erie township in March. border of the United States and Canada, from its home 300 km further south.
According to Washington Post and CNN, with access to approximately 600 pages of messages exchanged on the Discord and 4Chan networks, Payton Gendron, 18, arrived in Buffalo on March 8 and visited three times-at 12:00 pm, 2:00 p.m. pm 4:00 pm-at Tops supermarket, which he attacked on Saturday, for scouting.
On March 8, he was arrested by a black security guard, armed business, intrigued by the young man’s repeated visits. In a message posted two days later, Payton Gendron wrote that he was Tops’ security guard had to be killed and he hoped he would not be killed or even hurt of the latter.
A security guard, a retired police officer, was shot at the entrance of the supermarket on Saturday.
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Gendron also wrote in December that he wanted to kill black people, and in February he said he wanted to target Buffalo’s Tops supermarket because of its high proportion of African Americans, according to the report. Washington Post.
The newspaper also went through a 180-page document written by the alleged killer, describing himself as just a white man who seeks to protect and serve [s]A community, [s]we humans, [s]with culture and [s]there is a race.
According to authorities, this text published before the massacre links Payton Gendron to white supremacism, far-right conspiracy and followers of the racist theory of great replacement.
Pages on the manifesto plan, minute by minute, the attack, the munitions, the camera and the broadcast on the Twitch streaming platform.
Payton Gendron is currently indicted planned murder and is scheduled to appear again before a judge on Thursday. He was accused by the authorities of the perpetrator a racist hate crime and an act of domestic terrorism.
Source: Radio-Canada
