Buffalo racist killing: Defendant appears before a judge

Payton Gendron, 18, has been prosecuted since Saturday for intentional killing – preliminary indictment for which he pleaded innocent – and he again appeared in the morning before a judge in the court of Buffalo in the possible case of racist hate crime and works of domestic terrorismas alleged by police and judicial authorities.

At a public and filmed hearing of less than five minutes, in the presence in the victims ’family room, the young man appeared wearing an orange prisoner’s jumpsuit, masked, apparently bound hand and foot and accompanied by some policemen.uniformed and in civilian clothes.

He did not speak in front of Judge Craig Hannah, who could barely hear the reading of a plea.

On the other hand, we hear, in a Buffalo WGRZ television video, a voice shouting Payton, you coward.

In a stressful environment, Judge Hannah adjourned a new hearing procedure until June 9 and the district attorney for Erie, on the Canadian border, John Flynn, indicated in a statement that the defendant will remain confined without the possibility to pay a deposit.

He said he would not comment further until a possible result grand jury investigation and before a possible trial.

This racist massacre on Saturday at a Tops supermarket in Buffalo left 10 dead and 3 injured, 11 of them black. He has been meticulously prepared for months, as hundreds of internet posts from the alleged killer show.

The young man also made a reconnaissance trip to Buffalo in March from his home 300 km further south.

In his messages and a racist, supremacist and conspiratorial manifesto attributed to him, Gendron wrote months before the massacre that he wanted to kill black people and that he was targeting a poor and isolated Buffalo neighborhood because of his strong African proportions. Americans.

He has also prepared his attack, minute by minute, planning a military outfit, a camera and the broadcast of his crime on the Twitch platform.