Two American citizens have been sentenced in the United States, they were found guilty of planning sabotage at energy facilities, reports RIA Novosti with reference to the US Department of Justice.
Christopher Cooke, 20, and Jonathan Frost, 24, were found guilty, they pleaded guilty and were sentenced to 92 and 60 months in prison respectively. According to reports, by committing sabotage, the convicts planned to cause an economic crisis in the United States and a racial conflict based on the idea of ”white supremacy”.
“The plan was to use powerful weapons to attack substations or power grids… They discussed the possibility that a power outage for several months could lead to war, or even a race war, and causes the next Great Depression,” a press release follows. press release from the US Department of Justice.
Apparently there was a third person involved in the case, 22-year-old Jackson Sowall. He will be sentenced at a later date, the department said.
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