Wednesday, August 26, 8:30 am, Minneapolis. Robin Westman, a strongly armed transgender woman, broke into the Catholic Church of the Annunciation and opens fire. Dozens of schoolchildren attended Mass. Two children, eight and ten years old, die under the bullets and another 17 will be injured.
According to the Local Police, the 23 -year -old murderer shot dozens of roofs, using two rifles and a gun, before committing suicide. This mortal shooting shakes the United States, both for the very young age of the victims, the objective of the attack, a church, and the disturbing profile of the murderer.
“Depressive”, “Suicide” and “tormented by thoughts”
What do we know about her? The FBI identifies him as Robert Westman, a man who changed his first name to Robin in 2020 and defines himself as a woman. She had prepared a manifesto that was transmitted on YouTube before the murder. A video of eleven minutes that BFMTV could consult. The tortured murderer explains the reasons for his passage to the criminal act, between political extremism and psychological anguish.
From the first seconds of his video, he shows the camera a four -page letter, written in black ink, in which he affirms to “hate the simple fact of living”, telling herself “depressive”, “suicide” and “tormented by thoughts that do not leave me.”
She says that “this act (he) has been in her head for years.” She also thinks that he suffers from lung cancer and does not expect “sorry.”
References to mass murders
The political scope of his gesture appears only on the banks of this manifesto, when he specifies wanting to “escape the tickets, the work in poor condition, the moody people and the injustice of America.”
This shooting represents “his final act against this world” that he would like to “escape.” She shows the camera two assault rifles, two guns and ten numbered loaders. They support white inscriptions: “Salsal murderer”, “n **** this world.”
These graffiti make many references to the great mass murderers of the twentieth and twenty -first centuries.
The names of Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people in Norway in July 2011, or Brenton Tarrant, which shot 51 Muslims in New Zealand in October 2019, appear more, three times. Like Robin Westman, Brenton Tarant also, at the time of his murder of Christchurch, had stained his automatic weapons of cryptic message.
In Minneapolis, Robin Westman turned a church into the target of his murderous inclinations, which reveals an anti -Christian mobile. But the murderer seems more generally anti -religion, even racist. It also refers to an anti-mulman song that the Serbs entered during the Yugoslav wars in 1993. “Israel must fall,” he also states in the cannon of a rifle.
“A Faras Reference Point that is indecipherable”
Finally, Robin Westman made many winks to the Internet counterculture, the 4chan forum, an anonymous platform or Rings. Without forgetting many messages in Cyrillic or Russian. In a jacket exhibited in front of the camera, the FSB letters, acronym for Russia’s secret services appear.
“It is a flash of references that does not apply at the political level,” analysis for BFMTV Jean-Yves Camus, a political scientist specialized in political radicalities.
“If it is not because of the presence of slogans related to the genocide of the Jews, one of which is clearly anti -Semitic,” he added immediately, while pointed out “a fairly marked Christianaphobia, which is very rare.” “Nothing refers to an American extreme right movement in this video,” continues Jean-Yves Camus.
If Kristi Noem, the Minister of Internal Security, spoke of a “crazy monster” when talking about Robin Westman, the police chief, confessed his dissent in this gesture, believing “not having a mobile at the moment.”
Source: BFM TV
