Young man who allegedly ordered massacres is in pre-trial detention

The young man suspected of ordering massacres is in pre-trial detention, the criminal investigation judge decided this Friday.

“He refuted the facts in part, he told the truth. He provided the appropriate clarifications that we believed would be best for him”, declared lawyer Paulo Azevedo, at the end of the hearing to learn about the coercive measures, at the Justice Campus, in Lisbon.

The young man will now go to the Judiciary Police facilities and will then serve preventive detention at the Leiria Prison Establishment.

At issue are the crimes of qualified homicide and incitement to hatred and violence, in addition to pornography of minors, said the Judiciary Police (PJ), in a statement released on Thursday.

The 17-year-old young man, detained in the north of the country, is suspected of having created an online community on the Discord platform, from his parents’ home, where he instigated and ordered other young people to attack educational establishments.

In one of the situations, a 15-year-old boy broke into a school in Sapopemba, São Paulo, and killed a 17-year-old girl with a gunshot to the head. The attack, which took place in October last year, also injured three other students.

Speaking to journalists, lawyer Paulo Azevedo said that the suspect’s mother was unaware of the facts. “I was aware that her son was a young man who spent a lot of time on the internet, who spent a lot of time locked in his room,” she said.

The arrest of the young Portuguese man who ordered the attack on a school in Brazil prevented other mass massacres, the national director of the Judiciary Police (PJ) said this Friday. Among them was a plan to murder, with great suffering, a beggar, whose images would later be published on the internet, reveals Luís Neves.