His lunch comment frightened his classmates. This led the police to a plot to attack Muslims.

"He looks like the next school shooter, is not it?", Said the 16-year-old, according to Greek police chief Patrick Phelan.

For the Schoolchildren coming of age among regular television pictures of classrooms splattered with blood and drilled relentlessly with the man's mantra of "see-something-say-something", the statement has caused a concern.A student explained to the security and an investigation had been opened about the 16-year-old who had shown the picture and about the boy photographed.

But the investigators did not show any concern. have not discovered a possible shootout in the style of a Parkland school.

Phelan told reporters Tuesday that investigators were promptly led to a ploy concocted by a group of young men to attack a Muslim colony called Islamberg located three hours drive in the co located in Delaware, New York State. Police confiscated dozens of guns from suspects, as well as three improvised explosive devices.

Vincent Vetromile, 19, Andrew Crysel, 18, and Brian Colaneri, 20, are currently in custody and are facing charges of first-degree possession of criminals a weapon and a conspiracy fourth degree. An unidentified 16-year-old – the Odyssey Academy student who pissed off his classmates with the school shooter's comment – was also arrested in connection with the attack. projected. He was not identified because of his age. The boy identified in the photo is not related to the so-called conspiracy.

"If they had carried out this plot, where everything indicates that they were going, people would be dead," Phelan told reporters. "The child who initially said something to an adult saved the lives of people."

Authorities did not explain the relationship between the four suspects, but Phelan revealed that three of the four men had been together in the Boy Scouts of America. Eagle Scout, the highest honor of the organization, was raised to two.

The suspects still have to plead.

Islamberg, nestled in the western foothills of the Catskill Mountains, has been the target of two far right conspiracy hyperventilators and violent plots in the past.

The community was created in the 1980s by a group of followers of Pakistani cleric Sheikh Mubarak Gilani, reported the Associated Press agency in 2017. She was trying to break free from congestion and crime . in New York, families moved to rural areas. Today, about 200 people live on the site, run by Muslims in America, a US-based Islamic religious group that runs Muslim communities throughout North America.

But this community did not remain secret. Alex Jones' conspiracy website, Infowars, has regularly suggested that Islamberg was a training camp for violent jihad, and the media sent two correspondents to "investigate" the allegations in 2015.

In March 2015, authorities arrested a Tennessee man, Robert Doggart, for planning the complex's Islamophobic attack. He was convicted in 2017 of attempting to violate civil rights and incitement to arson a building and sentenced to twenty years in prison.

However, residents of Islamberg say they disavow all violent forms of Islam.

"It's a bunch of nonsense," said AP Hussein Adams, chief executive of The Muslims of America, in 2017. "Over the last 30 years, we've been training for this jihad ? So why did this jihad not happen? "

Local law enforcement also rejected the charges

" These people who live here are US citizens. They have been living here for over 30 years. They built this community. They have ties to the inside and outside of this community, "Major James Barnes, of the New York State Police Department told AP. "And there is no problem here."

On Tuesday, the authorities did not explain to reporters why the four suspects had chosen Islamberg as the target of their aggression.

According to Phelan's account, after the complaint was made against him. One year comment, the investigators interviewed the student as well as the student in the cell phone image, which was later released. The 16-year-old who made the first comment was, however, at the center of the investigation. Phelan said the interviews led police to three more suspects.

Five search warrants were executed as part of the investigation. The confiscated rifles were rifles and shotguns, said Phelan.

"They had access to these weapons," he added. "Some of them were those of their father, some of their grandfather, others, I think, bought themselves."

The three explosive devices were found at the home of this 16-year-old man. Citing court documents, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reported that one device was a big cylinder, one of medium size and the third was a Mason jar. All three contained gunpowder, marbles, and nails.

"These are homemade bombs," Phelan told reporters. "They are being examined at the FBI Quantico laboratory."

As part of the search, the authorities also confiscated several cell phones and computers. "I would say we have seen disturbing and suspicious equipment," said Phelan.

The suspects reportedly reported on the conspiracy through Discord, a smartphone chat app particularly popular with right and right players. hate groups. Discord has since worked aggressively to eliminate hate speech from his platform, the Washington Post reported last year.

On Tuesday, authorities added that they were working with federal law enforcement to see if any further charges could be filed. Phelan also did not rule out the possibility that the plot will include more than the four suspects currently in custody.

"We can discover through more in-depth investigations that more people were involved," he said.

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