A 19-year-old man from Manhattan who identifies as “unintentional” or “involuntary celibate” pleaded guilty to carrying out a fake bomb threat in a restaurant in New York City.
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US Attorney for the Southern District of New York Damian Williams announced Friday that Malik Sánchez, alias “Smooth Sánchez,” pleaded guilty to making a false threat to detonate a bomb in a restaurant.
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On or about February 13, 2021, Sánchez posted a video of himself at a restaurant in the Flatiron neighborhood of Manhattan. There he shows how he approaches the outdoor seating area, where there are two women sitting at one of the tables and he assures them that he is about to detonate a bomb.
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It is also heard when he says aloud: “Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar. Bomb detonation in two, in two minutes. I take them with me and I kill them all ”. Sánchez continues saying that he is going to kill everyone at that moment: “And I kill them all for Allah. . . . I’m going to do it. I’m going to do it for Allah.
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While he continues for several seconds saying that he is going to “bomb” them, the two women, startled, collect their belongings and enter the restaurant; while four other people in the seating area take their belongings and they flee scared.
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Celebrate their bomb threat
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Seeing the result of his actions, Malik Sánchez, seems satisfied to have spread them, and after congratulating himself with explicit vocabulary, says that what he has just done deserves “five stars”.
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On that occasion at least one person called 911 in relation to the bomb threat, and law enforcement responded to the scene, although by that time, he had already left.
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Although Sánchez has already deleted these videos from his social networks, some other bloggers still have them. In them you see verbally assaulting multiple women on different occasions: in one he is seen chasing two women he meets in the street, only to verbally attack them with obscene words. In a part of the video, he proclaims that it is about the “growth of the imperial army.”
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Incel threats are compared to terrorism
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The ‘unintentional’ or ‘involuntary celibate’ community is made up of a majority of men, who believe that society unfairly denies them the sexual or romantic attention to which they are entitled. Through online activity and, in some cases, insults and even violence, the insults target those they believe are unfairly denying them sexual or romantic attention, who in most cases are women.
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In Sánchez’s case, there are several videos harassing and insulting different women. A few days after the bomb threat at that Manhattan restaurant, on or around March 20, 2021, he posted another video also filmed in Manhattan where he once again proclaims his support for inceles, while making gestures with his hands that they imitated pointing a gun at them. After several people tried to stop him, he sprayed pepper spray in the face of one of those people. It was then that he was arrested by the police.
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After pleading guilty on Friday to a charge of transmitting false and misleading information, a crime that entails a maximum sentence of five years in prison, now the defendant awaits his next court appearance, on February 8, 2022, for sentencing.
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According to Bruce Hoffman, Jacob Ware and Ezra Shapiro, authors of the article Incel’s Threat of Violence Assessment, in recent years, young men, predominantly in the United States and Canada, have committed increasingly serious incidents of violence. and they identify themselves as incels. “Its core spirit involves the subjugation and repression of a group and its violence is designed to have far-reaching social effects,” they say. “Consequently, it could be said that incel violence fits an emerging trend in terrorism. with a hate crime dimension more prominent that requires more scrutiny and analysis ”.
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