The 21-year-old was arrested on January 9 after an extensive investigation that included the collaboration of the US FBI. The magistrate Adrián González Charvay considered that the elements collected are sufficient to judge man.
“I introduce myself brother, my name is Naza, I am from Argentina and I want to be a martyr in Argentina”said one of his messages directed at radicalized groups linked to the Islamic State. In another conversation, he asked for instructions on making bobas: “Will they teach me how to make explosives to attack?”
In his resolution, the magistrate stated: “I consider it proven, with the limitations inherent to this procedural stage, that Ávila was part of permanent or temporary groups whose main or accessory objective was to impose their ideas or combat those of others by force or fear. (Art. 213 bis CP) aggravated by having the purpose of terrorize the population (Art. 41 quinqués CP) in ideal competition with having encouraged or incited the persecution or the hatred against a person or groups of people because of their race, religion, nationality or political ideas.”
“This is not an isolated performance; that is to say, Ávila was part of the terrorist structurereceived advice and direct support of the organization. In that context, he was not only ideologically aligned with the group but also received a specific manual to act alone”.
The accused had a brief stint in the Argentine Army – from which he was fired for indiscipline – and the judge analyzed that he may have entered the force with the aim of obtaining weapons knowledge.
“The evidence collected so far demonstrates the defendant’s entry into the terrorist group. Beyond the categorical messages that commit you to the possible carrying out of a violent event, It becomes evident that he not only shared and spread the group’s ideology, but that he was actively part of it.”, he stated.
The statement of Nazareno Ávila
In his statement, the accused gave the explanations regarding his arrest pertinent to his defense and answered the questions of the judge and the prosecutor’s office, judicial sources reported.
In his statement, the young man did not recognize himself as a terrorist and assured that he approached these groups for interest in war topics. It was not in their plans to carry out any attack, “it was a game” for him.
Ávila was arrested on January 9 in his hometown, General Rocaand according to authorities, he planned large-scale attacks in the country under the “lone wolf” modality and with the spread of jihadist propaganda through social networks.
It was learned that the 21-year-old man worked at a courier shop in General Rock. The Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich, considered that this data “is not coincidental because that messaging allowed him to move to choose targets“.
Source: Ambito
