Overview

• An 18-year-old man identified as Timothy G. was arrested July 2 near a Saint-Étienne high school after being found carrying two knives.
• According to sources close to the case, he self-identified with the incel movement and planned to target women.
• The Parquet national antiterroriste has charged him with association of terrorist wrongdoers in view of preparing crimes against persons and ordered his pretrial detention in Paris.
• Investigators are examining his consumption of misogynistic “masculinist” content on TikTok and searching for any potential accomplices.
• As the first case exclusively linked to the incel ideology under PNAT’s authority, it underscores France’s widening counterterrorism focus on new youth radicalization pathways.