Overview
- Federal Judge María Romilda Servini authorized a search of a Caballito residence where Policía Federal Argentina detained the 16-year-old suspect.
- Officers seized replica firearms, knives, Molotov bottles, electronics and notebooks, including a submachine-gun replica etched with the names Brenton Tarrant, Anders Breivik and Rafael Solich.
- Investigators found notes outlining a November plan to trigger a false threat near a shopping center, enter the school posing as a police officer, isolate students in classrooms and carry out a shooting.
- The case was initiated after an FBI report to Argentina’s cybercrime unit UFECI about threats posted on X, with prosecutor Horacio Azzolin and PFA’s antiterror and investigations units leading the operation.
- Authorities report the teenager glorified Nazism and past mass shooters online and say they currently believe he acted alone while probing possible ties to extremist communities.