PF fulfills warrants against group that would have influenced attacks on schools in Aracruz (ES)

This Friday (2) the Federal Police are carrying out search and seizure warrants against an allegedly neo-Nazi group that allegedly influenced a minor to provoke an attack against students and teachers at two schools in the municipality of Aracruz (ES), in November of the year. past. Four people died and 13 were injured, the student was apprehended.

The number of warrants was not disclosed, but, according to the PF, they are carried out in São Paulo and Petrolina (PE). According to the investigations, the young man participated in a chat group on a messaging application in which the members shared material of “Ideologically Motivated Violent Extremism (EVIM)”, with the dissemination of “murder tutorials, videos of deaths violence, manufacture of explosive devices, promotion of hatred towards minorities and neo-Nazi ideals”, which, according to the authority, may have induced the minor to commit the mass murders.

The investigation showed that the violent extremism content files found on the minor’s cell phone were downloaded from the application channel in which he participated.

“The use of the swastika cross on the minor’s clothing at the time of the attack demonstrates the influence of the neo-Nazi ideology received by the app group, reinforcing the thesis that the attack was committed for reasons of intolerance to race, color and religion in order to provoke social terror, which configures the crime of terrorism,” says the PF in a statement.

The PF says it identified two members who actively interacted with posts with racist and anti-Zionist content, and who began to be investigated for the practice of corrupting a minor under 18 by inducing him to commit terrorist acts and qualified homicide.

According to investigations, the young perpetrator of the attacks is 16 years old and was a student at one of the schools that were targeted in the attack. He used two action weapons that belonged to his father, a Military Policeman: a .40 pistol and a private revolver.