The young white supremacist accused of committing a racist massacre on May 14 by killing ten black people in Buffalo, on the border between the United States and Canada, was charged Wednesday with “internal terrorism” by New York justice. York State.
Payton Gendron, 18, has been on trial since the day of his attack on a Buffalo supermarket for planned murderthe first allegation for which he pleaded innocent.
After first appearing a few minutes ago on May 19 before a Buffalo court judge, the grand jury charged him Wednesday of, among other things, murder, attempted murder, racist hate crime and works of domestic terrorismaccording to the Erie County prosecution, on the edge of the eponymous lake shared by the United States and Canada.
The young man, who has been incarcerated since May 14, will appear on Thursday afternoon to be served on all of his cases.
This racist massacre at a Tops supermarket in Buffalo left ten dead and three injured, 11 of them black people. 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, Mr. Gendron wrote a few months before the massacre that he wanted to kill blacks and that he was targeting a poor and isolated Buffalo neighborhood because of high that proportion of it. of African 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.
The United States is still in turmoil over this murder and the massacre, using a semi-automatic rifle at a school in Uvalde, Texas, of 19 children and two teachers on May 24 by another 18-year-old. was later shot by police.
Source: Radio-Canada
