“A growing phenomenon”: “a few dozen” young people linked to the “True Crime Community” movement followed by the services, according to Laurent Nuñez

“A few dozen” young people linked, like the author of the Aubagne shooting, to the “True Crime Community” movement, glorifying mass killings, are being monitored by the security services, the Minister of the Interior said on Friday.

“It’s a growing phenomenon in France,” explained Laurent Nuñez on France 2. “You should know that the specialized intelligence services, and this is particularly the case of the General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI), follow a few dozen objectives, young people who are in this ideology and who glorify mass killings,” he detailed.

On Monday, a 14-year-old teenager opened fire with a hunting rifle in his college in Aubagne, injuring the principal of the establishment and a teacher before being disarmed. The schoolboy shooter, who admitted “to have been influenced” by this movement, was imprisoned. He admitted the facts but denied having wanted to kill the targeted people.

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Another young teenager, aged 13, was taken into custody on Thursday. He is suspected of having been linked to the first, via TikTok. “These are young people who are already socially isolating themselves, who are very young, who isolate themselves, who only have a life on social networks and who come into contact with other young people and create this kind of community,” describes the minister.