Europe 1 with AFP 3:51 p.m., June 04, 2022
A young admirer of Hitler, suspected of preparing a plan for mass killing, was indicted on Friday for "terrorist individual enterprise" and remanded in custody.
The young man, aged 20, made many neo-Nazi comments on social networks.
A young neo-Nazi was arrested and placed on trial on Friday.
Just 20 years old, he is suspected of planning a mass killing.
Spotted on social networks and other encrypted messaging, he used the pseudonym "HeinrichHimmler88", explained a source familiar with the matter to AFP, confirming information from the Parisian.
A nickname in reference to one of the main dignitaries of the Third Reich, head of the SS, and to the number 88 recalling the double letter H, for the Nazi salute "Heil Hitler".
On these networks, he poured out neo-Nazi remarks, threatening in videos to attack "Jews, blacks, women, the LGBT community", added this source.
The man was arrested Tuesday in Ardèche by investigators from the General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI) who had established that he was "looking for a weapon", suggesting an imminent act .
"An unstable profile"
If he assumed in police custody his admiration for Nazi ideology, he "denied wanting to use a weapon" to commit a killing, according to the source familiar with the matter.
Asked by AFP, his lawyers did not wish to speak.
"He is an unstable profile, with a lot of resentment towards several groups of people who allegedly abused him when he was younger", develops the close source.
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