An American right-wing extremist, former member of the Marine Corps, was sentenced Monday to seven years in prison for his involvement in a planned attack against electrical infrastructure in the northwest of the United States.
Jordan Duncan, 29, who pleaded guilty in June to illegally manufacturing a rifle, was convicted by a court in North Carolina (southeast).
He was part of a group of five men, including three former Marines, sentenced to terms of nine months to ten years in prison for a planned attack against electrical infrastructure.
“We have now brought to justice all five defendants involved in a self-styled ‘modern-day SS’ who plotted, prepared and trained for an attack on America’s electricity infrastructure in the name of a violent white supremacist ideology », Underlined in a press release the Minister of Justice, Merrick Garland.
“There is no place for hatred in America,” responded Homeland Security Minister Alejandro Mayorkas, also quoted in the text.
For several years, between 2017 and 2020, the members of the group prepared their attack by equipping themselves with weapons, gathering documentation and training, in particular through live ammunition exercises in Idaho (northwest), according to court documents.
During the arrest of one of them in October 2020, a handwritten list of around ten places in Idaho and neighboring states was found, judicial authorities said.
