Barcelona man 'planned Orlando-style attack' and bragged about it on social networks
Monday, September 5, 2016 @ 10:26 AM
POLICE in Barcelona have arrested a 36-year-old man who was planning to stage an Orlando-style attack on homosexuals in the city.
The accused, from Mataró in the province of Barcelona, had uploaded 31 videos on YouTube showing himself with a Walther P22 9mm pistol and encouraging people to shoot gay men, lesbians and bisexual men and women in the head and 'treat them worse than animals'.
He published numerous tweets to the same effect.
One of his videos referred to the August LGB Pride festival in Barcelona, telling viewers he had '13 days to prepare' for a mass shoot-out.
He referred to homosexuals as 'sick', 'AIDS-ridden', 'drug addicts', 'ill' and 'abominations of nature' who should be 'exterminated'.
The accused was discovered after various Twitter users, including an LGB association in Madrid, tagged the National Police - @policia – in his comments.
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