Argentine Federal Police detained a 16-year-old boy in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Caballito for planning a shooting at his former school. The operation stemmed from an FBI alert over threats on social media. Authorities found weapon replicas, Nazi symbols, and notebooks detailing an attack plan in his home.
The case started when the Specialized Cybercrime Prosecutor's Unit (UFECI), led by prosecutor Horacio Azzolín, received an FBI report on a user posting threats of a 'massacre in November' on the social network X (formerly Twitter). The investigation, lasting less than a week, led to a raid at the teenager's home on Avenida Juan Bautista Alberdi 1600 in Caballito.
During the operation, agents from the Anti-Terrorist Investigation Unit (DUIA) of the Argentine Federal Police (PFA) found replicas of rifles, magazines, pepper spray, knives, rubber bullets, grips, bottles for Molotov cocktails, and a telescopic sight. The items bore inscriptions with names of mass shooters like Brenton Tarrant, Anders Breivik, and Rafael Solich, perpetrator of the 2004 Carmen de Patagones massacre. They also seized Nazi symbology material, such as swastikas and black suns, a suicide letter, and notebooks with a detailed schedule.
The plan involved an initial threat at a nearby shopping mall, followed by entering the school pretending to be a police officer, isolating students in classrooms, and carrying out a shooting. Investigators noted similarities to Breivik's 2011 Norway attack, which killed 77 people. The youth showed affinity with the far right, glorifying Nazism and multiple murderers.
The teenager was placed under the jurisdiction of the National Criminal and Correctional Federal Court No. 1, presided by Judge María Romilda Servini, who ordered a psychiatric evaluation. The case was filed as 'Public Intimidation.' PFA sources stated it is the tenth similar case in Argentina in the last two years, all involving minors. The Ministry of Security, headed by Patricia Bullrich, praised the FBI cooperation for 'neutralizing a possible tragedy in time,' though the youth lacked real capacity to carry out the attack.