The racist massacre on Saturday in a Buffalo supermarket, of which a young white American supremacist is accused and which left ten people dead in the black community, has been meticulously prepared for months, revealed on Tuesday May 17 media who have peeled hundreds of internet posts from the alleged killer.
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The chief of the police of this town in upstate New York, Joseph Gramaglia, announced Monday evening that the suspected murderer had made a reconnaissance trip in March to this town on the edge of Lake Erie, on the border of the United States. United States and Canada, from his home 300 km further south.
Three supermarket scouting tours
According to the Washington Post and CNN, which had access to some 600 pages of messages exchanged on the Discord and 4Chan networks, Payton Gendron, 18, came precisely on March 8 to Buffalo and went three times - at 12:00 p.m., 2:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. - in the Tops supermarket, which he attacked on Saturday, to do some scouting.
On March 8, he was almost confused by an "
armed black security guard
" from the trade, intrigued by the repeated presence of this young white man.
In a message posted two days later, Payton Gendron wrote that he "
will have to kill this Tops security guard
" and that he "
hopes that (the latter) will not kill him or even hurt him
".
“Protecting and serving my community”
A guard, a retired policeman, was fatally shot at the entrance to the supermarket on Saturday.
Gendron also wrote in December that he wanted to kill black people, and in February he targeted the Tops supermarket in a Buffalo neighborhood because of its high proportion of African Americans, according to the Washington Post.
The newspaper also went through the young man's 180-page manifesto, which describes himself as "
simply a white man who seeks to protect and serve my community, my people, my culture and my race
".
According to the authorities, this text published before the massacre hooks the alleged killer on white supremacism, far-right conspiracy and followers of the racist theory of the “
great replacement
”.
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Pages of the manifesto provide, minute by minute, the attack, the military equipment, the camera and the broadcast on the Twitch platform.
Payton Gendron is currently being prosecuted for “
premeditated murder
” and is due to appear before a judge again on Thursday and is accused by authorities of having committed “
a racist hate crime
” and an act of “
internal terrorism
” .
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