Twentynine Palms, California – The authorities are investigating what they seem to be radical opinions that Palm Springs bombing expressed himself online in the months prior to Saturday attack in a fertility clinic.
The FBI confirmed that he was reviewing a manifesto and other content to determine if they were the work of Guy Edward Bartkus, a “25 -year -old nihilist ideations” who believe he was killed in the explosion. A reason for the interest in the manifesto is that its author explicitly threatened an attack against a fertility clinic.
It is suspected that Bartkus detonates a massive bomb outside the American reproductive centers, causing extensive damage.
What do we know about Bartkus?
Bartkus lived on Twentynine Palms, which houses the Marines Combat Center of the Air Corps, promoted as the largest marine body training base in the world.
Bartkus was not a Marine, said Yvonne Carlock, a labor spokeswoman and reserve issues. The Times could not verify if Bartkus had any other affiliation with the base that could allow him to access explosives.
When the authorities clear their neighborhood this weekend for an extensive search, the neighbors interviewed by The Times said they did not know him.
Victoria and Austin Shupe, artists who moved from Century City to Twentynine Palms a year ago, they said that when the name of the suspect became public, there was a rarity: they had never seen it or anyone else with what they had spoken.
“Twentynine Palms is a really small town,” said Austin Shupe, owner of a music study in the area called Yucca Man Records. “It is the type of city where you go through the grocery store and see everyone.”
The FBI launched a photo of Guy Edward Bartkus, 25, the main suspect in the bombing of a Palm Springs fertility clinic that injured four people on Saturday.
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What about the explosives used?
The FBI described the explosion of Palm Springs, powerful enough to damage the buildings several blocks away, such as “probably the largest bombing scene we have had in southern California”, eclipsing the 2018 bombing of a spa day in Aliis Viejo.
The authorities are still trying to determine what types of explosives were used and how they were acquired.
The explosion left a car behind the clinic shattered and killed a person tentatively identified as Bartkus. The officials are not sure if I intended to commit suicide.
Police sources told the Times that the bomber used a large number of explosives, so much that the bomb shattered its remains.
“We believe that he was the theme found by the vehicle,” said Akil Davis, deputy director in charge of the FBI Los Angeles Field Office, referring to a 2010 Silver Fusion Silver Silver sedan near the explosion site. Davis said the researchers believed that the suspect was trying to convey the attack live.
The clinic published a photo of the sequelae of the explosion that showed that the roof of the building collapsed, the debris that flows to the streets and the smoke undulating from the inside.
Tim Arndast, co -owner of the Christopher Anthony Ltd. gallery, was about two blocks from the explosion site in his business. First he felt that the shock wave hit the building and thought it was the beginning of an earthquake.
“But, of course, once I felt, I heard the explosion, then I knew it was not an earthquake,” he said.
Purkey ran down the street to the explosion site, following a black cloud of smoke, and came there in a few minutes. He saw a flame vehicle and the medical building wrapped in flames. There were several people walking through the stunned area. Some were bloody but capable of standing.
Then he found body parts on the street.
What do we know about Bartkus's beliefs and the possible reason?
An online website that did not contain name, but that seemed connected to the bombing, presented the case of “a war against the pro-life” and said that a fertilization clinic would be objective.
“Here you can download the recorded transmission of my suicide and bombardment of an IVF clinic,” the site began, but there was no file. The author cites numerous marginal philosophies that include
- Abolitionist veganism: The opposition to all the uses of animals by humans.
- Negative utilitarianism: The idea that we must act to minimize suffering instead of maximizing pleasure in the world.
- Pro-Mortalism: The marginal philosophical position that is better that senses die as soon as possible to avoid future suffering.
Davis refused to confirm whether the manifesto was written by the suspect, saying that his team was “tracking a possible manifesto, and is part of our ongoing research.”
In the manifesto, the author denounced those who bring human life to the world and declared the ultimate goal of “sterilizing this planet of life disease.”
Accompanying the website there was a 30 -minute audio file, labeled as “pre”, which began with the speaker saying that I would explain “why I decided to bombard a building or IVF clinic.”
“Basically, everything is reduced to that I am angry to exist and that, you know, nobody had my consent to bring me here,” said the speaker.
On the website with the manifesto and hidden in the underlying code of the site, the author made reference to the recent death of a person that the writer said as a close friend, “Sophie”. The references coincide with the death of April 20 of a woman from the state of Washington allegedly triggered by her partner A, he says, his request.
A newsletter of the law reviewed by The Times said the bombing of Palm Springs seemed to be more depressed after the recent death of a friend.
What do experts say?
Brian Levin, founder of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism and Professor Emeritus in Cal State San Bernardino, said that the author of the manifesto seemed to be part of a growing movement of alienated solitary actors radicalized in dark internet sites and misinformation.
“The antinatalism movement that is specifically linked to violence,” Levin said. “Even so, his alleged 'political' idiosyncratic and idiosyncratic statements paint a very different image, that of an unstable desperate young whose suicidal despair agitates him in a brutal self-consuming death justified by a personally distorted hug of a dark anti-life ideology.”
What follows for the case?
The FBI's joint terrorism task force is working with local and federal authorities to persecute Leads in an effort to determine the sources of the explosives. On Sunday, they asked the public for help to track Bartkus movements before the explosion.
The sources said that at least one weapon recovered from the scene, but that the investigation of the area has been challenged for the amount of damage created by the pump.
Times Melody Gutiérrez, Julia Wick and Rebecca Plevin staff contributed to this report.
