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The State Police of Milano, Cagliari e Vicenza has executed two precautionary measures of the obligation to remain in residence and house arrest against a twenty-year-old of Romanian origin and an eighteen-year-old Italian member of the Russian accelerationist network – present on Telegram – called AAST. The measures carried out today come at the end of a complex investigative activity developed in the last year – under the direction of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Milano e Cagliari with the coordination of National Anti-Mafia and Counter-Terrorism Directorate – by the local Digos in synergy with the Service for the Countering of Extremism and Internal Terrorism of the Central Directorate of the Prevention Police – Ucigos. (…) In particular, it emerged that the eighteen-year-old cagliaritano, today subjected to the precautionary measure of house arrest, is enrolled in AAST and within the connected to a supremacist terrorist association called The Base, attributable to the international program “White Suprematist Extremism”, which have as their primary objective the committing acts of violence with the aim of terrorism and subversion for reasons of racial hatred. Her violent nature had already revealed himself as a minor; in fact, in 2022, he was subjected to a personal, local and computer search delegated by the Juvenile Prosecutor’s Office at the Court of Cagliari after having threatened a schoolmate with a knife, who had reprimanded him for hearing him praise Hitler. Even after he came of age, he continued to engage in conduct of discrimination and racial hatred, in addition to other crimes, such as child pornography, cyber extortion in the subspecies of “sextortion”, theft of digital identity for extortion purposes. In fact, it has been ascertained that the suspect maintains a dense network of virtual relationships with other Internet users, all orbiting around the supremacist galaxy, trying to gain credibility in these environments through the sharing of accelerationist propaganda content as well as through the commission of certain criminal acts on the territory, which he then sends to the administrators of the groups he frequents. In this context, the aforementioned has made himself available to implement the association program in his own city and in his own nation, informing himself and training through the training courses provided by the aforementioned organizations on the Telegram channels dedicated and has searched the web several times information on weapons such as guns, tonfa, crossbows, tasers, deterrents and knuckle-dusters, comparing himself with other Internet users on how to obtain a gun; furthermore, he was the author of attempted aggravated extortion, sexual violence and child pornography against various individuals, including a 15-year-old, asking for money by threatening to disseminate sexual images and videos of her on WhatsApp and forcing her to perform sexual acts online and, subsequently, to forward them on Telegram in a group chat.

via la milano: roma: Two members, aged 21 and 18, of the neo-Nazi and supremacist group AAST arrested

Dallas Humber, 34, and Matthew Allison, 37, face 15 counts including soliciting hate crimes and support for terrorism. A white supremacist group that branded itself the Terrorgram Collective drew up a list of high-profile assassination targets including at least one senator and a district court judge, according to a federal indictment unsealed on Monday. Prosecutors allege that the two leading agitators of the group incited followers on social media to commit hate crimes against Black and Jewish people, immigrants and members of the LGBTQ+ community. Dallas Humber, 34, of Elk Grove, California; and Matthew Allison, 37, of Boise, Idaho; face 15 counts each of soliciting hate crimes and providing material support to terrorism. US justice department lawyers filed the 37-page indictment in district court in the eastern district of California on Thursday. It alleges the pair encouraged attacks on government infrastructure, energy facilities and other buildings “to ignite a race war and help accelerate the collapse of government and society”. They produced a digital dossier for followers called The Hard Reset setting out the group’s ideology and containing instructions for making bombs and carrying out other terror attacks, as well as tactics for evading law enforcement, prosecutors said. They also produced a list of “high-value” targets for assassination, they said. The sitting US senator and judge allegedly targeted were not named in the indictment, but were perceived by the accused “as enemies of the white supremacist cause” and therefore legitimate prey.

via guardian: Two leaders of US white supremacist group charged over assassination hitlist

siehe auch: White supremacist leaders plotted assassinations to start race war: federal indictment. Two leaders of a white supremacist group have been charged after allegedly plotting assassinations and terrorist attacks that they hoped would bring on a race war. In a 37-page indictment unsealed by federal prosecutors on Monday, Dallas Erin Humber, 34, and Matthew Robert Allison, 37, were accused of leading a network of channels on the Telegram app that promoted “white supremacist accelerationism.” Court filings said the ideology was “centered on the belief that the white race is superior,” and the leaders hoped to start a race war that would collapse the government to create a “white ethnostate.” The men were accused of soliciting members of the so-called Terrorgram Collective to carry out assassinations and critical infrastructure; Leaders of Transnational Terrorist Group Charged with Soliciting Hate Crimes, Soliciting the Murder of Federal Officials, and Conspiring to Provide Material Support to Terrorists. The Justice Department announced today that Dallas Humber, 34, of Elk Grove, California, and Matthew Allison, 37, of Boise, Idaho — leaders of the Terrorgram Collective, a transnational terrorist group — were charged with a 15-count indictment for soliciting hate crimes, soliciting the murder of federal officials, and conspiring to provide material support to terrorists. Humber and Allison were arrested on Friday by law enforcement officials. (…) “As alleged, Humber and Allison, the leaders of Terrorgram, conspired to provide material support and solicited attacks on federal officials and critical government infrastructure, including federal buildings and energy facilities,” said Matthew G. Olsen of the National Security Division. “Today’s charges demonstrate the Justice Department’s resolve to bring every available tool to bear in countering threats of violent extremists and protecting Americans.” “The defendants solicited murders and hate crimes based on the race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, and gender identity of others,” said U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert for the Eastern District of California. “They also doxed and solicited the murder of federal officials, conspired to provide material support to terrorists, and distributed information about explosives that they intended to be used in committing crimes of violence. My office will continue to work tirelessly with our partners in law enforcement and in the Justice Department to investigate and prosecute those who commit such violations of federal criminal law. I would like to thank the FBI and the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and National Security Division for their partnership in support of the common mission to keep our people and public officials safe from hate-fueled crimes of violence.” According to the indictment, which was unsealed today, Humber and Allison are the leaders of the Terrorgram Collective, a transnational terrorist group that operates on the digital messaging platform Telegram, where it promotes white supremacist accelerationism: an ideology centered on the belief that the white race is superior; that society is irreparably corrupt and cannot be saved by political action; and that violence and terrorism are necessary to ignite a race war and accelerate the collapse of the government and the rise of a white ethnostate.