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The figure is suspected to be Payton Gendron (18), the perpetrator of the mass shooting that killed 10 people in Buffalo, USA, on Saturday last week. Photo/Courtesy of BigDawg/ via REUTERS
The mass shooting by Payton Gendron, 18, killed mostly black people and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is investigating the attack as a hate crime.
In a manifesto whichposting online Prior to the horrific attacks, Gendron also directed intense hatred at Jews, expressing support for Nazism and adhering to the anti-Semitic and racist Great Replacement conspiracy theory, which says that Jews plan to replace white Americans with non-whites. white.
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The 180 -page manifesto is circulating online including Gendron’s name, describing a plan of attack and a suitable statement from law enforcement.
Researchers from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) cited the document and said it was unclear where it was first published.posting.
The law enforcement official who spoke to Associated Press identified the suspected Buffalo shooter as Paytonn Gendron, from the city of Conklin, central New York, about three and a half hours from Buffalo.
The manifesto attributed to Gendron is rooted in the white supremacist Great Replacement conspiracy theory, which holds that Jews are responsible for non-white immigration, and that non-whites will overwhelm and wipe out the white race.
Robert Bowers, who killed 11 people at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018, also cited the conspiracy theory prior to his attack.
A white supremacist who killed a congregant at a synagogue in Poway, California, said Jews were responsible for the genocide of “white Europeans”.
