Lucas S., presented by various media as the leader of an ultra-right group called "Patriotic Vengeance", was indicted on Friday evening December 17 in Paris and imprisoned for several offenses including
"provocation"
to
"an act terrorism, ”
AFP learned from corroborating sources.
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A judicial source told AFP that a man has been indicted for
"provocation by means of online communication to an act of terrorism"
as well as
"public apology for acts of terrorism"
and
"unauthorized detention of weapons and ammunition of category B in recidivism ”
, then remanded in custody. According to this source, this indictment comes within the framework of a judicial investigation opened Friday by the National Antiterrorist Prosecutor's Office for
a criminal “terrorist association”
(AMT), following a preliminary investigation opened in April. The investigators
"have not established any plans for violent action at this stage"
and he was therefore not indicted on Friday for this criminal AMT, according to a source close to the file.
But according to this source and another, the indicted man is linked to an ultra-right group called "Patriotic Vengeance".
He is suspected of having participated in the animation of
"a site and groups with anti-Semitic and conspiratorial ideologies" as
well as
"of having made ultra-right books available"
, according to these sources.
They confirmed to AFP that it was Lucas S., a man presented by online news sites Streetpress and Nextinpact as the alleged leader of "Patriotic Vengeance".
According to one of these sources, he was born in 1995, lives in the Paris region and works in computer networks.
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On its site, the group "Vengeance patriote" presents itself as
"a community of brothers in arms"
which
"is preparing for collapse"
, doing
"sports training"
and
"survivalism"
.
According to the Streetpress news site, its members exchange
daily
"racist projections"
and
"some of its regulars do not even hide their passion for fascism
.
"
Lucas S. was arrested at the beginning of the week and placed in police custody, in this investigation carried out in cosaisine by the DGSI and the gendarmes, according to one of the close sources.
The same source indicated that a woman was also arrested at the beginning of the week but left free at the end of her detention, without prosecution at this stage.
Since 2017, around ten procedures relating to the ultra-right have been opened at the Paris anti-terrorism center.
A threat
"taken very seriously"
and which
"is growing"
, according to a Parisian anti-terrorist magistrate.
