DThese people were arrested by the DGSI after the opening of a preliminary investigation by the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office (PNAT) for criminal terrorist association and direct provocation to a terrorist act. The first, a 46-year-old territorial official, was arrested in Montauban.
The second, aged about sixty, has lived in Saint-Denis-de-Pile in Gironde since his release from prison. The latter is in fact known to the courts for offenses and a common law crime. In 2006, he shot his brother-in-law in a family dispute. Since his release, he had no declared professional activity and subsisted on social income. He lived in a hamlet located six kilometers from Libourne. Due to difficult ends of the month, he had recourse to the social services of his commune. Hunter, he had been excluded from the association to which he belonged.
“He did not participate in local political life,” explains Fabienne Fonteneau, the mayor of Saint-Denis-de-Pile. His ultra-right ideas don’t come out of nowhere. Like others, they arm themselves to defend the ideology of Eric Zemmour. We should put him face to face with the consequences of his speeches. Zemmour conveys deeply undemocratic remarks and theses ”, underlines the elected official.
“Ultra-right accelerationist”
The two suspects stored weapons, ammunition and components that could go into making explosives. They are not on file. They corresponded on a channel created by themselves on the encrypted Telegram network. The DGSI considers them as belonging to the ultra-right accelerationist movement.
According to historian Nicolas Lebourg, interviewed by The world last May, this theory was popularized by Brenton Tarrant, the man who in March 2019 killed 51 people and injured 49 while attacking two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. He devoted two pages to it in his manifesto entitled “Le grand replacement”. The man who attacked the Bayonne mosque in October 2019 also claimed to be part of this ideology.
“Accelerationism has developed in the United States, in particular with Seat [1992], the book by neo-Nazi James Mason, translated by the French far-right group Vengeance patriote. There is this idea that you have to hasten the racial war for whites to survive it – in France, they consider that this war started with the attacks of 2015, and that the only chance of survival is to accelerate. chaos. Accelerationism is racial war, and its very principle is that we must move on to violence, ”according to the historian, member of the steering committee of the Violence and militant radicalities program in France.
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