A 21-year-old Frenchman who has long been fascinated by the Third Reich was sentenced to nine years in prison in Paris on Friday for threatening to commit racially motivated mass murder, AFP reported.

This sentence is more severe than the seven years of imprisonment demanded by the prosecutor’s office. In its decision, the court referred to the defendant’s “radicalism” and “dangerousness” and found that “a plan of violent action is likely to be immediately implemented” during his arrest.

Abandoned by his parents and bounced between several foster families and homes, Angel B. was arrested and remanded in custody in June 2022 in the south of the country after his message was seen on social media and encrypted messaging services.

Under the pseudonym Heinrich Himmler,88 he described the Jews as an “impure race that must be exterminated” and attacked “Negroes” and “Buñuels”. In the conversations intercepted by the investigation, he also talked about the preparation of “ethnic cleansing” or “street attack”.

The investigation also established that he tried to illegally purchase weapons. His lawyers argued that he himself waived the proceedings, but the court disagreed.

Accused of an “individual terrorist initiative,” the young man told a criminal court in Paris that he “would never have acted.” “I had no serious plans, I am conscious and rational,” the young man declared in a clear and calm voice.

According to the investigation, the suspect became interested in Nazism from the age of eight to ten in order to “take revenge” on his father who abandoned him.

At the bar, he explained his stormy comments on the Telegram messenger as a “group effect”. “I wanted to make myself interesting. It occurred to me, I was not serious,” he said.

“In the long term, I would like to go into politics,” but “with more moderate comments that stay within the law,” added the young man, who says he “thought it up” in prison and describes himself as a “sovereign- patriot”. “.