Three neo-Nazis plead guilty to attacking the US power grid

Three supremacists Whites pleaded guilty to participating in a plot to attack the electrical grid in various parts of the United States with rifles and damage the country’s economy, the Justice Department reported Wednesday.

Christopher Cook, 20, Jonathan Frost, 24, and Jackson Sawall, 22, have admitted to purchasing weapons to sabotage electrical installations, which is considered a federal crime, for which they face maximum prison terms of 15 years.

“These three defendants have admitted to participating in a disturbing plot in support of white supremacy to attack energy facilities in order to harm the economy and fuel division in our country,” said Justice Department Homeland Security Officer Matthew Olsen, according to a statement.

Frost and Cook met in 2019 online, agreed to attack the power grid, and began recruiting other young people through reading lists of books that “promoted white supremacy and neo-Nazism.” Sawall later joined the plan. Each of the three had assigned an electrical station to attack with rifles with the aim of causing a cost of millions of dollars to the Government and causing unrest among the population.

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“They had discussions regarding the possibility that a power blackout for months might lead to a war, even a race war, and cause a Great Depression,” the Justice Department said.

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The three planned to wear necklaces with fentanyl pills (a synthetic opiate that is between 80 and 100 times stronger than morphine) during the attack, which they would ingest in case they were arrested by the police to die of an overdose.

They held meetings in both Texas and Ohio, where they painted a swastika under a bridge to recruit other members. “Those inspired to commit terrorist acts in the name of hate pose a serious threat to our nation,” William River, the FBI agent in charge of the case, said in the statement.