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For: EFE Updated 26 Jan 2022, 23: 01 pm EST
A judge in Volusia County, northeast Florida, denied bail to a student from 18 years accused of threatening to blow up the White House with explosives, reported local media.
Brian Ghalili, student at Stetson University , was arrested five days ago for uploading a message to the Snapchat social network in which he gave the coordinates of the White House and said that he had a bomb attached to his chest that would explode.
At the hearing held today, Ghalili’s mother said that her son suffers from the autistic spectrum and that she has had to teach him on her own everything related to social coexistence, picked up the television channel WKMG.
The mother told the judge that they had recently moved to Florida, at the beginning of the course and school, while the young man, for his part, assured that he had never before been in trouble with the law or had been detained at school.
According to the Police, the boy missed class two days before making the threats and, when the agents entered his room, he was not there.
However, they did not find any signs, suspicious brochures or explosive material in the inspection of his room.
The boy admitted in an interrogation that he had sent the message to about twenty people, but that it was a joke with which he hoped to impress his friends.
“Being on the autism spectrum, it is difficult for him to make friends,” added the mother.
Ghalili is on provisional suspension at Stetson University.
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