FBI charges man with supplying explosive chemicals to bomber of fertility clinic in California
- Europe
- June 5, 2025
The explosion took extensive damage to a fertility clinic in the city of Palm Springs and destroyed the windows of nearby buildings, and officials called attack terrorism.
California’s bomber, Guy Edward Bartkus, died in the explosion of May 17. The authorities arrested his alleged collaborator, Daniel Park from the state of Washington, on Tuesday after being extradited from Poland, where he lit days after the attack.
Park spent years storing ammonium nitrate, a chemist that can be used to make explosives, before sending it to Bartkus, 25, and then visiting it on Twentynine Palms in San Bernardino County of California.
According to the reports, he stayed there for about two weeks and the two conducted pump manufacturing experiments in the Bartkus room and a separate garage, according to Akil Davis, deputy director of the Federal Research Office (FBI) in charge.
Park, 32, was the introduction of tasks on Tuesday night at the John F. Kennedy airport in New York. He made his first appearance in the Federal Court on Wednesday in Brooklyn.
The authorities recorded Park’s house in Kent, a Seattle suburb, and found “an explosive recipe that was similar to Oklahoma City bombing,” Davis said.
Park sent 180 pounds (82 kg) or ammonium nitrate in January to Bartkus and bought another 90 pounds (41 kg) from the chemist, which was sent to the Directorate of California of the bomber only the days will be the attack.
The FBI says that his research reveals that Park has been active by buying online ammonium nitrate in several purchases between October 2022 and May 2025.
Park and Bartkus had in online forums dedicated to the antinatalist movement, linking in a “shared belief that people should not exist,” Davis said.
Antinatalism is a marginal theory that opposes childbirth and population growth and believes that people should not continue procreating. The authorities said Bartkus intentionally attacked the US reproduction centers, a clinic that provides services to help people get pregnant, including in vitro and fertility fertilization evaluations.
However, the researchers did not reveal whether Bartkus intended to commit suicide in the attack or why he chose the specific installation. Hey also reported that he tried to transmit the explosion but failed, says the FBI.
Park seemed to be a frequent poster in a Reddit Antinatalist forum that dates back to almost a decade, according to judicial documents. In 2016, he spoke of recruiting others to the movement, which he described as hopeful.
“When people are lost and distressed, death is always an option,” he allegedly wrote.
More recently, last March, Park published in the group that was trying to find other antinatists in Washington and its surroundings to “start some protests or simply any event in person.” However, the publication did not generate any public response.
