Two American white supremacist activists are being charged with inciting racially motivated killings, assassinating officials and sabotaging infrastructure, US prosecutors said Monday.
Dallas Humber, 34, arrested Friday in California (west) and Matthew Allison, 37, arrested the same day in Idaho (northwest), were to appear separately for the first time on Monday, according to the same sources.
According to the indictment dated September 5 and made public on Monday, they are being prosecuted as the moderators since 2022 of the far-right discussion group “Terrorgram” on the Telegram messaging service, which conveys an “accelerationist” discourse.
This movement, which was structured in the United States and has inspired perpetrators of attacks around the world, aims to precipitate a “racial war” that it considers inevitable.
Dallas Humber and Matthew Allison are being prosecuted for “inciting hate crimes and terrorist attacks against black, immigrant, LGBT and Jewish people, attacks on public infrastructure and targeting political leaders,” Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Kristen Clarke said at an online press conference.
Those targets include a U.S. senator, a federal judge and a federal prosecutor, according to the indictment.
The list released by the defendants “included targets, their names, addresses and photos,” said Assistant Attorney General for National Security Matthew Olsen.
They are also accused of publishing detailed instructions on how to carry out the attacks, including how to make explosives.
Charged with 15 counts, they each face up to 220 years in prison, judicial authorities said.
Investigators have linked at least two attacks abroad to their activity on “Terrorgram”, including one committed in Turkey in August by a young masked man, wearing a helmet and bulletproof vest, who injured at least five people, one seriously, with a knife in the garden of a mosque before being apprehended, filmed and broadcast live on X by his perpetrator.
Another, which the defendants claimed was inspired by, was committed in October 2022 by a 19-year-old Slovak who shot dead two patrons at a gay bar in Bratislava before killing himself.
A third project, targeting electrical infrastructure in New Jersey (northeast), was thwarted in July with the arrest of an 18-year-old suspect, already announced two months ago by the judicial authorities.