A young Frenchman and Hitler fan were accused of planning a mass murder on Saturday and accused of “individual attempted terrorism” on Friday and detained in pre-trial detention in France attributed to the far-right, sources close to the case said. It’s a threat that is “taken very seriously” and is “intensifying,” according to a Parisian counter-terrorism magistrate.
A source close to the case, who confirmed information from the French newspaper, told AFP that the 20-year-old was found on social networks and encrypted messaging apps under the pseudonym “HeinrichHimmler88”. Le Parisien.
The source added that he “vomits neo-Nazi rhetoric in videos, threatening to attack Jews, blacks, women and the LGBT community.”
Heinrich Himmler was a high-ranking leader of the Nazi Third Reich, head of the feared and bloodthirsty SS, and the number 88 stands for the eighth letter of the H alphabet for the Nazi salute “Heil Hitler”.
The man was arrested by investigators from the French General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI) in the Ardeche (south) section on Tuesday, finding that the suspect was “looking for weapons” and suggested an imminent act of violence.
The young man in custody admitted his admiration for Nazi ideology, but “denied that he wanted to use a gun” to commit the murder, according to a source close to the case. His lawyers, who contacted the AFP agency, declined to comment on the case.
“He has a shaky profile, very angry with the various groups of people who abused him when he was younger,” the same source said.
Neo-Nazi Arsenal in North East France
An “impressive” amount of weapons, some of which are combat weapons, and a ton of ammunition constituting a real arsenal, were discovered this Friday (3) in France at the home of four members of a neo-Nazi group in Alsace ( northeast).
Mulhouse (northeast) prosecutor Edwige Roux-Morizot said four suspects detained after Tuesday’s operation were charged with arms smuggling. They face 10 years in prison. The four men were arrested at their homes in Sierentz, Brinckheim, Richwiller and Mooslargue (northeast) during the operation, which mobilized 200 gendarmes.
It was necessary to “secure the facilities”, as the suspects were “heavily armed” and “trained to shoot,” said Colonel Alexandre Jeaunaux, commander of the Haut-Rhin district police.
Lieutenant Colonel Yann Wanson, second in command of the Strasbourg search division, said 18 legal and 23 illegal weapons were seized, as well as 167 automatic rifles, 72 of which were Kalashnikovs.
Lieutenant Colonel Wanson said the ammunition quantities were “too large, we’re talking more in terms of weight.” “This means at least 120,000 rounds of ammunition in all calibers, most of them for war weapons, with a total weight of more than one tonne,” he said.
According to Prosecutor Morizot, suspects aged between 45 and 53 have a “normal” profile of people. However, the “significant literature” found in the suspects’ home, which also displays various Nazi objects, belongs to a neo-Nazi group, confirmed by the denier and anti-Semitic.
*with information from AFP
source: Noticias
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