Aubagne shooting: A second minor indicted for complicity and placed under judicial supervision

The anti-terrorism investigation into the shooting that occurred on Monday at the Lakanal college in Aubagne, in Bouches-du-Rhône, continues. On Friday, a 13-year-old teenager from the North of France was indicted for complicity in assassination attempts in connection with a terrorist enterprise and criminal terrorist association. Suspected of having participated in the schoolboy shooter project, he was placed under judicial supervision, with in particular the obligation to respect the conditions of placement in a closed educational center.

Monday, around 9:20 a.m., a schoolboy entered the establishment, “dressed entirely in black and gloved,” according to the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office (Pnat). In particular, he was carrying a firearm concealed in a guitar case. The intervention of the principal education advisor, who managed to “disarm” him, made it possible to put an end to the attack. The young attacker was indicted and imprisoned on Wednesday evening.

Investigations around the “TCC” community

The investigations are closely interested in the digital activities of the shooter and his alleged links with the “True Crime Community” (TCC), a movement born in North America, fascinated by mass killings. The use of media seized from his home revealed the use of numerous accounts on Discord, Snapchat, TikTok and Protonmail. One of them was “exclusively dedicated to the republication of content linked to this community, of extreme violence and more particularly relating to school killings”, according to the public prosecutor.

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This movement is now the subject of particular surveillance by the French authorities. On Friday, Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez indicated on France 2 that “a few dozen” young people linked to CBT were being followed by the security services. “It’s a growing phenomenon in France,” he said. Anti-terrorism prosecutor Olivier Christen, however, put the scale of this threat into perspective on Thursday, deemed “totally marginal compared to the rest of the terrorist threat”.