From the English edition of the Spanish Newspaper
El Pais.
Authorities in the State of Mexico have identified the assailant as a 27-year-old man from Mexico City
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The attacker wounded seven other people with the weapon. Six more suffered bodily injuries and fractures in the heat of the clash. According to an initial report issued by a police commander in the State of Mexico, the shooter took his own life. However, other videos show members of the National Guard hunting him down. Deafening gunshots can be heard, suggesting the caliber of the rifles, followed by silence. Authorities have not clarified this point, nor have they addressed other crucial aspects of understanding a lone wolf attacking a crowd, randomly, with a firearm. It is impossible not to think of the
mass shootings that are frequent in the United States, something to which Mexicans are not accustomed.
Very little is known about the killer, and even less about his motives, beyond hatred. It has only been revealed that he lived in the Gustavo A. Madero borough in northern Mexico City, according to identification found among his belongings near his body by investigators.
The newspaper
Milenio has reported that the young man was an admirer of Hitler and even published photos of himself giving the Nazi salute. Despite the official silence surrounding the case, the profile of the victims — all foreigners — and certain details surrounding the attack offer clues. Some media outlets have drawn attention to the fact that the crime occurred on Hitler’s birthday. Another coincidence is the
Columbine High School massacre in Colorado, USA, on April 20, 1999. Two students used assault rifles to kill 12 classmates and a teacher, and wounded 24 others. They then turned the weapons on themselves. The tragedy has become one of the most striking images of the gun violence epidemic and its devastating consequences in the United States.
Reference has also been made to the attacker’s t-shirt, which bore the slogan “Disconnect & Self-Destruct.”
Milenio pointed out that this slogan is commonly used within the True Crime Community (TCC), to which the Columbine shooters were linked. While the Teotihuacán attacker’s connection to the TCC is not entirely clear, various organizations have warned of the proliferation of ideas associated with this diffuse group, particularly regarding “performative violence” or “nihilistic violence.” This characteristic is repeated in seemingly unrelated crimes in different countries, where the murder weapon can be a gun or a knife, where the victims are random people in a crowd, and where the common denominator is that the attacker is always male.
This unusual crime echoes the murder, just three weeks ago, of
two high school teachers by a 15-year-old boy in Michoacán. This attacker used an AK-47 assault rifle. Moments before the attack, the boy recorded himself posing with the weapon in front of his mirror. In other separate posts on his social media, he shared messages that identify him with the “incel” community, a movement of men who profess hatred toward women and champion a wounded and resentful masculinity.
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