He wanted to attack women. An attack was thwarted with the arrest of a young man, in the Saint-Etienne region, indicted and placed in pre-trial detention on Tuesday evening.
What happened?
Tuesday evening, an 18-year-old man was arrested in the Saint-Etienne region. It was in possession of two knives that he was arrested, near a high school.
The national anti -terrorist prosecution (PNAT) confirmed the opening of judicial information on Tuesday. The young man was indicted for the association of terrorist criminals with a view to preparing one or more crimes of people and imprisonment, said the PNAT.
What is the profile of the suspect?
He is an assumed masculinist. Timothy G., just major, claims to be the “INCEL” movement (contraction of “single involuntary”, that is to say “involuntary singles”) of men considering that they would be single because of women who do not want them). According to sources close to the file, he sought to attack women.
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Juvenile and shy, the fluet body and dressed in a navy blue t-shirt, he appeared Tuesday evening before the liberty and detention judge that imprisoned him. According to one of the sources close to the file, Timothy G. has computed masculinist videos on the Tiktok social network.
“I met a teenager who suffers and not a fighter who is preparing for action. The instruction will bring this file back to its most proportion from the point of view of the qualification and personality of the indictment, “said AFP the lawyer for this young man born in November 2006 in the Loire, Maria Snitsar.
What is the Incel movement?
Born in North America at the turn of the 2000s, the movement of incels, men who hate women, generates a growing number of mass killings, to the point of being assimilated to a terrorist threat.
According to a source close to the file, it is the first referral to the PNAT concerning an individual claiming to be exclusively of the “Incel” movement, a notion which had previously appeared in a more marginal way in two files dealt with by the PNAT.
The Netflix series “Adolescence”, broadcast in the spring and which was very successful, highlighted these toxic and misogynist influences to which young men are online.
