Gavin Rivers Weisenburg and Tanner Christopher Thomas © Social Media
Two Americans were accused of planning an armed operation to take control of the Caribbean island, murdering its male population, and enslavement of women and children, announced American prosecutors.
According to U.S. territory lawyer for the East Texas District, 21-year-old Gavin Rivers Weisenburg and 20-year-old Tanner Christopher Thomas, both from the Dallas area, ‘conspired to recruit and command illegal expeditionary forces’ on Ile de la Gonave, a tropical island with about 100,000 inhabitants, part of the Republic of Haiti.
The plan, reportedly discussed between August 2024 and July 2025, was intended to carry out a coup d'état "to realize the fantasy of rape".
"Weisenburg and Thomas intended to execution all the men on the island to then make women and children their sexual slaves" – the prosecutors informed on Thursday, adding that both were charged with "conspiracy for killing, mutilation or kidnapping in a abroad country and production of kid pornography".
Investigators say that the couple planned to buy a sailboat and firearms, and besides tried to recruit homeless people from around Washington to the armed group.
Suspects alleged to have taken ‘many public actions” including learning local language, preparing operational plans and learning training programs to "get skills applicable to the invasion plan".
Officials reported that Thomas enlisted in the United States Air Force for military training.
Lawyer David Finn, representing Weisenburg, described the indictment as ‘just a plea’ and called on the public to "holding up judgement and not correcting information noise".
“If your first reaction to the government press release was: “This sounds crazy, impossible and absurd”, you may find something important.” – said, quoted by Fox News.
The charge of conspiracy to commit execution in a abroad country involves the anticipation of life imprisonment, and a kid pornography crime is threatened by a punishment of 15 to 30 years in prison.
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source:https://www.rt.com/news/628225-us-men-charged-with-plotting/
