Young Portuguese man was going to broadcast the death and torture of a beggar online

The 17-year-old Portuguese young man who is suspected of having incited massacres in schools in Brazil, self-mutilation and the beheading of animals via the Internet was in pre-trial detention. The arrest prevented the death and torture of a beggar.

This 17-year-old Portuguese young man was arrested on Wednesday and has already been heard by a judge from the Central Criminal Instruction Court who ordered him to preventive detention.

It is being investigated by four murder crimes (one completed and three attempted), for offenses against qualified physical integrity and incitement to hatred and violence.

He faces yet another trial for crimes of child pornography.

The young man’s lawyer, Paulo Azevedo, revealed to Rádio Renascença that the boy “refuted the facts in part, told the truth“. “He provided the appropriate clarifications that we understood would be best for him”, she pointed out.

The preventive detention will be carried out in Leiria Prison Establishment.

I was preparing an online broadcast of the death and torture of a beggar

The young man was detained at his mother’s house in Santa Maria da Feirain the district of Aveiro, after allegedly inciting other young people to carry out four attacks on schools in Brazil.

Authorities suspect that he was the leader of a group that operated from Discordan Internet platform that is used by many young people, particularly video game fans.

Acting remotely, via the Internet, he was behind the shooting attack which took place last October in Sapopemba State Schoolin the east zone of São Paulo, in Brazil, which killed a 16 year old student.

The attack was committed by a 15 year old who entered the school with a gun, shooting his classmates.

The national director of the Judiciary Police (PJ), Luís Neves, told journalists that the The young man’s detention prevented several crimeswith “more deaths, more young people, more schools attacked, more mass crimes, more human suffering”.

Luís Neves also revealed that the young man was preparing the murder of a beggar “with lingering hints of suffering”, and with the aim of broadcast the crime live on the Internet. Anyone who wanted to see the images of the crime would have to pay.

Blackmailed girls into self-harm

The young Portuguese also encouraged girls aged 10 to 14 undressing and performing sexual acts for the camera. These images would then be used for blackmail into self-mutilationand then sell the videos on the Internet.

It also broadcast live on the Internet from death and mutilation of animalsincluding the decapitation of a cat, for example, and young people drinking detergent.

In addition to all this, it spread extremist nazi propaganda.

The investigation began with a request for help from the Brazilian Federal Police after the attack at the Sapopemba State School. But it was time-consuming work that involved the collaboration of foreign policeparticularly from Brazil, and from IT platforms, as highlighted by Luís Neves.

“He was looking for a needle in a haystack”he told journalists.

The national director of the PJ also noted that the young man “is the only Portuguese person identified at the moment”.

But who is this young man?

The young man comes from “a normal middle class familywithout warning signs”, as Público reports.

AND child of separated parents who will have joint custody of the minor, but “lived with his mother, stepfather and a younger brother” in Santa Maria da Feira, where he attended school. ninth year at a Professional Schoolaccording to the same newspaper.

“I wasn’t very successful at school and spent hours, both day and night, on the computerfocusing his life on the virtual world”, highlights the same diary, noting that he had “anti-social behavior”.

The young man’s lawyer told Renascença that the suspect’s mother knew that her son “spent a lot of time on the Internet” and “locked in the room for a long time”but was completely unaware of the facts being investigated.

The young would not engage in violent behaviornor diagnosed mental problems, “despite the authorities believing that he has a cruel and sadistic“, as Público notes.

Luís Neves also highlighted to journalists that the young man “He had enormous leadership skills to be able to move other young people of the same age, especially Brazilians, in order to radicalize others, to self-mutilate, to commit mass crimes and homicide crimes”.