An ultra-nationalist arrested in 2017 and who said he wanted to shoot, including Emmanuel Macron during the parade of July 14, was sent back in late June before the Paris Criminal Court, AFP learned Tuesday from a judicial source, confirming information from the Parisian .
The 25-year-old man, who has personality disorders and is currently detained, is to be tried in a few months for "terrorist individual enterprise", according to the prosecution's requisitions. Spotted when he was trying to get a weapon from a video game site, he said "vaguely" wanting to attack the president and "Muslims, Jews, blacks, homosexuals," according to concordant sources.
Three kitchen knives found
He was arrested at his home on June 28, 2017 in Argenteuil, Val-d'Oise, after reports from several Internet users on the platform for reporting illegal content Pharos. Three kitchen knives were found in his vehicle. The exploitation of his computer had revealed internet searches for potential targets, according to a source close to the survey.
The young man was known to justice: in 2016, he was sentenced to three years in prison including 18 months suspended and put to the test for provocation to racial hatred and apology for terrorism after having praised the acts of Anders Behring Breivik, the author of the bombing of July 22, 2011 in Norway (77 dead).
This project of the young man had revived the memory of July 14, 2002, when Maxime Brunerie, 25-year-old right-wing activist, had tried to reach President Jacques Chirac with a rifle 22 long rifle concealed in a guitar case. The shot had been deflected by a spectator. The man was sentenced in December 2004 to ten years' imprisonment. He was released in August 2009.