The US Government arrested two leaders of a white supremacist group, accused of trying to trigger a “race war” and attacks against Jews, immigrants and members of the LGBT community. The detainees used an online forum known as Terrorgram linked to two attacks in Türkiye and Slovakia
Dallas Humber, 34-year-old woman living in Elk Grove, California, and Matthew Allison, A 37-year-old man from Boise, Idaho, was taken into custody on Friday and was scheduled to make his first appearance in federal court on Monday.
“Today’s indictment charges the defendants with leading a transnational terrorist group” dedicated, among other crimes, to “carry out deadly hate crimes, all in the name of the violent ideology of white supremacy“Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement.
The detainees promoted A race war, government collapse and a “white ethnostate” in the US
Humber and Allison face multiple charges, including inciting committing hate crimes and murdering federal officialsdistribution of instructions for the Bomb making and conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists.
According to the indictment, Humber and Allison They used the encrypted platform Telegram to promote their white supremacist ideology and communicated with their followers in a forum called “Terrorgram Collective”.
There they promoted the belief that “Violence and terrorism are necessary to ignite a race war and ‘accelerate’ the collapse of government and the rise of a white ethnostate”the accusation said.
Terrorgram, the Telegram group linked to two attacks in Türkiye and Slovakia
Humber and Allison “asked others to participate in hate crimes and terrorist attacks against black people, immigrants, LGBT and “beans”, Deputy Attorney General Kristen Clarke said at a news conference.
At least two attacks have been linked to “Terrorgram”: the stabbing of five people by an 18-year-old youth outside a mosque in Türkiye August 12 and the fatal shooting of two men at a gay bar in Bratislava, capital of Slovakia, in October 2022.
Humber and Allison They face sentences of up to 220 years in prison if they are found guilty of all charges.
Early last year, US President Donald Trump announced Joe Biden, had warned about the danger of supremacism borders within the country. “White supremacy is the most dangerous terrorist threat in our country,” he said. in a speech at Howard University in Washington.
In 2019, the director of the FBI, Christopher Wray, had also raised that White supremacy was the most “persistent” and “pervasive” threat facing the United States. “We assess that it is a persistent and pervasive threat. We address it through our joint terrorism task forces on the domestic terrorism side, as well as through our civil rights program on the civil side through hate crimes enforcement,” he said.
Source: Ambito
