A 25-year-old man that the FBI believes that he was responsible for an explosion that crossed a fertility clinic in southern California who left the writings of “anti-professional” before carrying out an attack of researchers called terrorism, authorities said Sunday.

The FBI identified Guy Edward Bartkus from Twentynine Palms, California, as suspected of the apparent detonation of car pumps that damaged the clinic in the exclusive city of Palm Springs in the desert east of the angels. His writings seemed to indicate antinatalist views, which argues that people should not continue procreating, authorities said.

The explosion destroyed the fertility clinic of the American reproductive centers and destroyed the windows of nearby buildings along a street bordered by palm trees. The witnesses described a strong boom followed by a chaotic scene, with people shouting with terror and glass scattered along the sidewalk and street.

The researchers said Barktus died in the explosion, that a senior FBI official possibly called the “largest bombing scene we have had in southern California.” A body was found near a carbonized vehicle outside the clinic.

This image published by the Federal Research Office shows Guy Edward Bartkus. (FBI through AP)
This image published by the Federal Research Office shows Guy Edward Bartkus. (FBI through AP)

Through AP

Bartkus tried to convey the explosion live and left the writings that communicated “nihilist ideations” that were still being examined to determine their mental state, said Akil Davis, the deputy director in charge of the FBI angels field office. The Fiscal Prosecutor of the United States Billal “Bill” Ensayli, the main federal prosecutor in the area, described the message “Anti-Pro-Vida”.

“This was an objective attack on IVF facilities,” Davis said Sunday. “Do not be wrong: we are dealing with this, as I said yesterday, as an intentional act of terrorism.”

The bombing injured four other people, although Davis said that all embryos in the installation were saved.

“The good, one, bad guys zero,” he said.

The authorities were executing a search warrant on Twentynine Palms, a city of 28,000 residents about 50 miles (80 km) northeast of Palm Springs, as part of the investigation.

“Thank God today was a day when we don’t have patients,” said Dr. Maher Abdallah, who directs the clinic, to The News in a telephone interview on Saturday.

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News Christopher Weber’s writer contributed from Los Angeles.

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