Zwei Mitglieder der rechtsextremen und Trump-nahen Bewegung Proud Boys müssen sich wegen des Sturms auf das Kapitol verantworten. Ihnen wird unter anderem Anstiftung zu einem Verbrechen zur Last gelegt. Auch zwei Frauen, die in einem Video damit drohten, Nancy Pelosi töten zu wollen, wurden festgenommen. Zwei Mitglieder der rechtsextremen Gruppe Proud Boys sind wegen des Sturms auf das US-Kapitol angeklagt worden. Ihnen werde unter anderem Verschwörung zu einem Verbrechen vorgeworfen, hieß es in der Anklageschrift, die der Nachrichtenagentur am Samstag vorlag. Einer der beiden Männer, der 43-jährige Dominic P., war demnach auf Videoaufnahmen dabei zu sehen, wie er mit dem gestohlenen Schild eines Polizisten ein Fenster am Kapitol einschlug und damit zahlreichen Randalierern den Weg ins Gebäude ebnete. (…) Ermittler finden bei Durchsuchungen Feuerwaffen, Sprengstoff und Gift
Die Anklagen der Staatsanwälte im Zusammenhang mit dem Sturm aufs Kapitol werden zunehmend härter. Der ehemalige Soldat P. und der mit ihm angeklagte William P. waren zuvor wegen illegalen Betretens des Kapitols verhaftet worden. Die Anklage wurde nun aber deutlich ausgeweitet, unter anderem um den Punkt der Verschwörung mit dem Ziel, die Polizei beim Schutz des Kapitols zu behindern. Anwälte der beiden gingen auf die Anklage zunächst nicht ein. P. ist seit seiner Festnahme in Untersuchungshaft. Bei der Durchsuchung seiner Wohnung wurden Anleitungen zur Herstellung von Feuerwaffen, Sprengstoff und Gift gefunden. Zeugenberichten zufolge sprach die Gruppe um P. später darüber, dass sie jeden unliebsamen Abgeordneten umgebracht hätte, den sie erwischt hätte, auch den damaligen Vizepräsidenten Mike Pence. Ebenfalls am Freitag wurden die Anklagen gegen zwei Frauen aus Pennsylvania zugelassen, wie die „Washington Post“ berichtet. Von den beiden war ein Selfie-Video in den sozialen Netzwerken zu sehen. Darin filmten sie sich beim Sturm auf das Kapitol und sagten: „Wir sind ins Kapitol eingedrungen. Wir sind reingekommen, wir haben unseren Part erfüllt.“ Weiter sagen sie über die demokratische Sprecherin des Repräsentantenhauses, Nancy Pelosi: „Wir haben nach Nancy geschaut, um ihr in ihr verdammtes Hirn zu schießen, aber wir haben sie nicht gefunden.“

via rnd: Sturm aufs Kapitol: Anklage gegen rechtsextreme Proud Boys

siehe auch: Proud Boys’ member ‘kept hundreds of guides for making bombs and homemade weapons in his home’ and ‘planned to kill every single ‘mfer’ he could during the Capitol riots. Dominic Pezzola, 43, also known as ‘Spaz’, was indicted Friday on charges including conspiracy, civil disorder and unlawfully entering restricted buildings. Prosecutors are calling for him to remain behind bars until his trial . Feds discovered a thumb drive containing detailed instructions on making guns, poisons and IEDS inside a room in his Rochester, New York, home. Among the trove of instruction manuals were titles including: ‘Advanced Improvised Explosives,’ ‘Explosive Dusts’ and ‘Incendiaries’ ‘ Prosecutors also say a witness told authorities Pezzola was among a group of armed rioters who said they ‘planned to kill every single ‘mfer’ they can’  The witness also told the FBI that Pezzola and his group ‘would have killed Mike Pence if given the chance’   Fellow Proud Boys’ member William Pepe, 31, was indicted Friday (…) Dominic Pezzola, 43, also known as ‘Spaz’, was indicted Friday on charges including conspiracy, civil disorder and unlawfully entering restricted buildings or grounds for his part in the January 6 insurrection which left five including a Capitol cop dead.  Prosecutors are calling for him to remain behind bars until his trial after federal agents discovered a thumb drive containing detailed instructions on making guns, poisons and IEDS inside a room that only he is said to use in his Rochester, New York, home. Among the trove of instruction manuals were titles including: ‘Advanced Improvised Explosives,’ ‘Explosive Dusts,’ ‘Incendiaries,’ ‘The Box Tube MAC-11: The Ultimate DIY Machine Pistol,’ ‘Ragnar’s Big Book of Homemade Weapons,’ and ‘The Advanced Anarchist’s Arsenal: Recipes for Improvised Incendiaries and Explosives.’

Among the most visible ideological adherents at state capitol protests after Jan. 6 and in Richmond, Virginia, on Jan. 18 for pro-Second Amendment rallies were people involved with the boogaloo movement, easily recognizable in most cases because of Hawaiian-themed shirts and masks along with their weapons, signatures of boogaloo followers. The shirts are a reference to “big luau,” which is an adaptation of the word “boogaloo.” Following the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol that resulted in five deaths, large swaths of the American right have continued to falsely claim that former President Trump won the election and that President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party “stole” it. Right-wing protests were also slated for state capitols the weekend of Jan. 17, and boogaloo adherents (self-proclaimed “boogaloo boys”) were among those either planning the protests or planning to go. (…) Regardless, rallies and protests have continued across the country in support of false claims that the election was stolen. Boogaloo boys participated in the rally in Richmond, distinct in Hawaiian shirts and other Hawaiian-themed clothing and gear, but a few also sported Black Lives Matter (BLM) patches and others rainbow flag patches, in alleged support of the BLM movement and LGBTQ rights. It’s unclear how much of this support is genuine, and how much is simple political opportunism as the movement attempts to muddy ideological boundaries in order to triage their image and draw in more adherents. The thread that binds boogaloo adherents is their belief that the country is headed toward a civil war – and that mass civil conflict of this kind is the only way for the country to right its path. These antigovernment beliefs have found appeal beyond the movement’s racist roots, making it adaptable and easily spread.

via splcenter: Who Are Boogaloos, Who Were Visible at the Capitol and Later Rallies?

Twitter personality Jack Posobiec worked alongside other American far-right extremists in amplifying the fruits of an apparent Russian military intelligence (GRU) hack intended to disrupt the outcome of the French elections in May 2017. The hack – waged to target Emmanuel Macron, then a candidate for president, and benefit his opponent, the far-right politician Marine Le Pen – spawned a series of criminal charges in 2020. On Oct. 19, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the FBI charged six Russian military intelligence hackers from GRU with cybercrimes including “spearphishing campaigns and related hack-and-leak efforts targeting French President Macron [and his political party] … prior to the 2017 French elections.” Posobiec’s contribution to the effort to spread the hacked material through Twitter follows a pattern of behavior by the influential far-right activist. It bears superficial similarities to two other online campaigns he promoted. The first is 2016’s #Pizzagate, which manipulated the GRU-hacked emails of Hillary Clinton’s campaign chair to create disinformation falsely linking Democratic Party officials to pedophilia. The other is a coordinated social media campaign targeting the personal life and business relationships of Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, that he promoted in October 2020. This campaign happened around the time authorities issued charges related to the hacking of Macron and his allies and before Hunter Biden announced that the DOJ is investigating his taxes. The following analysis lays out what Hatewatch knows about Posobiec’s role in amplifying the May 2017 hack-and-leak campaign, which he dubbed “#MacronLeaks,” and his associations with other extremists at the time he did it.

via splcenter: Jack Posobiec Central in Spreading Russian Intelligence-Led #MacronLeaks Hack