Palm Springs – The suspect in the bombing of a Palm Springs fertility clinic that the FBI tentatively identified four people on Sunday as Guy Edward Bartkus, a 25 -year -old “with nihilist ideas.”
The FBI tentatively called Guy Edward Bartkus, 25, as the main suspect in the bombing.
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Bartkus seems to have been killed in the explosion on Saturday morning in the American players centers, according to FBI officials who are investigating the incident as an “act of intentional terrorism.”
“We believe that he was the theme found by the vehicle,” said Akil Davis, deputy director in charge of the Fbis Los Angeles field office, referring to a 2010 Silver Ford Ford Ford Ford Ford Musion near the explosion site.
Davis said the researchers believed that the suspect was trying to transmit the attack live, which he described as “the largest bombing ever investigated in southern California.”
Sources of the law told the Times that the bomber used a large number of explosives, so many that the bomb shattered its remains, and it may not have intended to be killed in the explosion. They also said that the suspect seemed to be “anti-life”, an “anti-nationalist” who believed that prreation is injustly or unjustifiable and interacting with people of related ideas in social forums. In addition, they seemed to be reacting to the recent death of a friend.
The researchers, they said, were looking for an online manifesto, social networks and a YouTube account that mentioned explosives, whose liter were still verifying.
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 site exalted a Hodpodge of philosophies, of “abolitionist veganism”, the opposition to the use of animals by humans and “negative utilitarianism”, the idea that we must act to minimize suffering instead of maximizing pleasure in the world.
“Basically, I am a pro-world,” wrote the author, referring to a marginal philosophical position that it is better that sensory beings die as soon as possible to avoid future suffering.
The Times could not independently confirm that Bartkus created the website. Domain data show that the site was created in February.
Davis refused to verify if the manifesto was written by the suspect, and added that his team was “tracking a possible manifesto, and is part of our Onfing investigation.”
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.”
A portion of Palm Canyon Drive is blocked after an explosion in a fertility clinic.
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“Life can only continue whenever people have delusional belief that it is not a zero sum game that causes meaningless torture, and ruins that it can never, or alone, separate, clean,” said the site. “I think we need a Pro Vida War. It is clear at this point that these people are not only stupid, they simply do not care about the damage they are perpetuating being agents arranged by a DNA molecule.”
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, it’s about being angry because it exists, you know, nobody has my consent to bring me here,” said the speaker.
The fertility clinic, surrounded by other medical buildings, was closed at the time of bombing. Althegh, the bomb started the building in half, the clinic director said that embryos were not damaged.
“Our laboratory, including all eggs, embryos and reproductive materials, remains completely safe and without damage,” said the business in an online published statement. “Our mission always has the leg to help build families, and in times as thesis, we remember how fragile and beautiful life is.”
On the website with the manifesto and hidden in the underlying sites, the author made reference to the recent death of a person who the writer claimed as a close friend, “Sophie”. The references coincide with the death of April 20 of a woman from Washington allegedly triggered by her partner A, he says, his request.
A newsletter of the law reviewed by The Times said the suspect seemed to be more depressed after a friend’s recent death.
“I am never related to some so much, and I cannot imagine that I would ever go,” said the author in the manifesto, pointing out that and “Sophie” identified as “anti-sixsee misandronistas” and “Vegantinatistas” and had “limit.” “
The website suggested that the two had reached an agreement: “If one of us died, the other would probably follow,” said the author. “It is a great loss when there is no one else who really knows significantly.”
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“The antinatism movement that left violence specifically,” 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.”
Around the last two decades, said Levin, a series of male young people, just in adulthood, have exploded in extreme violence as a result of a combination of social distancing, radicalization and online aggression without restrictions, as well as psychological not addressed.
“We are seeing that the panorama of violent extremism is seriously influenced by lonely actors, free social networks and an idiosyncratic wave, of these lonely ones that can be seen to the segments of A. an existing one.”
Historically, Levin said, he would have a more difficult bone for an individual to have a dark and legitimated dark ideology and obtain knowledge to carry out such an attack.
“Today, we basically have a DIY ecosystem where lonely people can participate in a behavior that previously inclined more towards small groups and cells,” said Levin. “There is a complete cauldron that implies radicalization, my information, legitimation of violence as a method within this set of complaints and that is what you have.”
The researchers were at Bartkus’s house a few hours after Saturday’s explosion.
Officials investigate Guy Edwards Bartkus’s house on Twentynine Palms.
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The deputies of the San Bernardino County Sheriff asked the residents at one end of the community left by the houses while cleaning a radius of explosion, then they waited for the order of a judge to search a house linked to the suspect of bombing.
An online address directory showed that the house had been used by Bartkus since 2019.
Jeanette Hogan, who said he did not know the name of Bartkus, lived directly on the street and had not seen the occupants in the house for several months. “We have never seen it, so all this is like shocking for us,” said Hogan. “It’s a bit disturbing to know that our neighbor was doing something so evil.
“Thank God it was a Saturday and they did not do any patients.”
Thomas Bickel, who lived directly behind the suspect’s house, also said he never had a Bartkus. He said Sheriff agents around 1 PM asked him to leave his home, and faded the cactus bar to wait for the search.
Eight hours later, Bickel was still there, taking care of a beer in the courtyard while seeing federal agents in the street entering and leaving the suspect’s house. At one point, they sent a robot to the house, while the drones and a helicopter floated above.
An FBI agent whose car was parked on the perimeter told Bickel that the pump used in Palm Springs was “large.” An army veteran who served in Afghanistan, Bickel said he was familiar with the destructive power of road bombs.
“I don’t say this in a positive way,” he said, “but it was someone who knew what they were,” “”
Saturday’s explosion damaged the offices in a fertility clinic in Palm Springs.
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The automobile explosion was so large that it crossed the clinic and sent blocks of debris away, breaking windows in a nearby hospital while driving the wrinkled vehicle in the suspect in the other direction through a rear parking.
Nick Jacob Sivetz was about nine blocks in the Patio de Graffiti when he heard the explosion. He said a fourth partner at his home, about six miles away, he also heard the explosion.
Sivetz ran to the scene to find business with its exploited windows, debris scattered along the way. Amid the confusion, he said, many residents thought there had been a gas explosion.
“I would say that the whole city,” said Sivetz. “It was surprising for many people, especially in a quiet city like this.”
The reputation of Palm Springs as an inclusive community, and the work of the American players centers to help same sex couples to use substitutes to have children, caused the attack early that the attack was a hate crime against the LGBTQ community.
“Fertility treatments, including IVF, have become more and more politicized by extreme right -wing extremists in recent years,” said Equality Director California, Tony in a statement published to the media.
“No one should fear for their safety when accessing medical care. We join the choir of voices that ask the officials responsible for enforcing the local, state and federal law to carry out an exhaustive investigation, send our law.
