Washington. The “Tops” supermarket chain, which has 150 stores in the US states of New York, Vermont and Pennsylvania, expressly has the predicate “friendly” in its name. On Saturday afternoon, the Jefferson Avenue branch in black Buffalo made the acquaintance of what District Sheriff John Garcia trembled in, “the pure Angry” called.
Payton Gendron, an 18-year-old, white engineering student, shot dead there in an apparently meticulously prepared shot massacre ten people and injured another three. Eleven victims are African American. Many details point to a flawless act of imitation.
Dead in the supermarket: Prosecutors assume hate crimes
The perpetrator, who comes from Conklin near New York City, three and a half hours by car to the south, and who was reported to his parents together with two brothers, is, according to a 180-page pamphlet he distributed on the Internet, a fascist, neo-Nazi, anti-Semite and supporter of the doctrine of the ” White supremacy” – white supremacy.
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FBI and prosecutors allege a “hate crime” and “racially motivated violent act.” extremism” out of. Prominent politicians in Washington, including President Joe Biden, were “appalled”.
Gendron pleaded not guilty to the magistrate in the town near Niagara Falls after his arrest. He is threatened with imprisonment end of life.
Gunfire in Buffalo was broadcast live
Gendron had broadcast the most serious mass murder of this year in America live on “Twitch” with a GoPro camera on the military helmet. The streaming service belongs to Amazon and is mainly frequented by video game fans. Stephan Balliet, the double murderer of Halle 2019, used the platform in the same matter.
Gendron, dressed in military camouflage, was already documenting his journey to the Grocery store in a black-dominated part of Buffalo. Good to see: the semi-automatic rapid-fire rifle on the passenger seat.
A little later, Gendron gets out and starts shooting in the parking lot in front of the entrance of the store, which was visited by many weekend shoppers on Saturday afternoon. At least three people die here; also through headshots.
Police present a “horror film” at the scene of the crime
After entering the supermarket, according to the police, he randomly aimed at customers and employees. Among the dead is a former cop who worked here as a security guard after retirement. His shot at the gunman bounces off his bulletproof vest.
When the police a little later on crime scene arrives, they are presented with a “horror movie” – “except that everything is real”.
Gendron holds a gun to his neck and threatens to shoot himself. The officials persuade him to give up. eyewitnesses Reporters later told reporters that the gunman “calmly discarded his weapon and parts of his military equipment, knelt, and allowed himself to be arrested without resistance.”
USA: 18-year-old reports on radicalization
In his “Manifesto”, Gendron stated, in addition to many meticulously listed details about the preparation of the act, that he had already done so with many violent crime right-wing internet forum “4chan” that had become conspicuous and felt particularly “inspired” by Brenton Tarrant.
The native Australian also streamed live in Christchurch/New Zealand in 2019 in two mosques Killed 51 people and injured the same number.
Tarrant had in his letter of confession direct reference to a writing by the French author Renaud Camus, which is considered the Bible in right-wing terrorist circles worldwide and who also ideologically charged the right-wing extremist “Identitarians” in Germany.
“Grand Remplacement”: That’s what the conspiracy theory is about
In “Grand Remplacement” (Great Population Exchange) the conspiracy thesis is formulated that in the USA as in Europe left The elite wanted to destroy white supremacy through immigration, so that white “natives” would gradually be replaced by immigrants. It is the leitmotif and fear of right-wing extremist circles par excellence.
Gendron identifies “highly fertile immigrants” in the US who have completely undermined the demographic fabric. against the “genocide” he feels it is his duty to ask the white man. The fact that Gendron specifically targeted an area inhabited predominantly by Afro-Americans follows his racist world view: “All black people are only place takers (“replacers”) simply because they exist in white countries.”
Besides Tarrant, Gendron refers by name to other mass murderers who have made headlines around the world:
- On the white supremacist Dylan Roof, who killed nine black people in Charleston, South Carolina in 2015 Kirchgänger shot.
- To neo-Nazi Robert Bowers, who died at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue in 2018 killed eleven people and seven others injured.
- Patrick Wood Crusius, who was targeted at a Walmart supermarket in El Paso, Texas, in 2019 at the age of 21 hunted Latinos and wiped out 23 lives.
- On the Norwegian right-wing extremists Anders Breivik who killed 77 people in Oslo and on the island of Utøya in 2011.
All are considered in relevant forums of the Internet heroes revered.
USA: “White Replacement” movement in the political mainstream
JJ MacNab from the well-known extremism program at George Washington University in the American capital points out that many fragments of the “White Replacement” movement have long since found their way into the political arena Mainstream. Various Republican members of Congress who feel ideologically close to ex-President Donald Trump have long been saying that the Democrats are opposed to the white majority Muslims or wanted to exchange non-white immigrants (Latinos, etc.). That’s why, they falsely claim, the border with Mexico is virtually “open.”
Tucker Carlson, one of the most influential TV presenters on the Fox News channel, regularly uses almost the same choice of words. “To win and stay in power, they plan democrats to change the population of this country,” the multi-millionaire said on a show last year, ranting that Joe Biden’s party was “deliberately importing authoritarian voters from the Third World to replace the existing electorate.” The civil rights organization “Anti-Defamation League” (ADL) demanded in vain that Carlson be thrown out.
MacNab and others blame Carlson and other cues in the right-wing populist camp disasters as in Buffalo: “Those who spread such ideas are to be blamed, not just those who pull the trigger.” Incidentally, Payton Gendron himself asserts that he was in full possession of his mental faculties. “I’ve never been diagnosed with a mental disorder,” he writes, “I think I’m perfect sane.” Katy Hochul, the governor of the state of New York, has called Gendron a “right-wing extremist terrorist” who should be locked up forever.
This article first appeared on morgenpost.de
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