From b7e26a6e42f7e1ea48c1d7c828624c6bbe550143 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "disinfo.zone" Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2026 22:50:23 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] vault backup: 2026-10-05 22:50:23 --- 00 - META/CHANGELOG.md | 20 +-- .../(A-G)/Ciro Daniel Amorim Ferreira.md | 22 ++-- .../(A-G)/Gabriel Rodrigues Castiglioni.md | 115 +++++++++++++++--- 10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Dallas Humber.md | 20 +-- 20 - ORGANIZATIONS/Terrorgram Collective.md | 64 +++++----- 40 - EVENTS/2022 Aracruz School Shootings.md | 77 +++++++----- 40 - EVENTS/United States v. Humber.md | 7 +- 7 files changed, 216 insertions(+), 109 deletions(-) diff --git a/00 - META/CHANGELOG.md b/00 - META/CHANGELOG.md index cbb4fddb..63f6b4aa 100644 --- a/00 - META/CHANGELOG.md +++ b/00 - META/CHANGELOG.md @@ -1,3 +1,13 @@ +- 2026-10-05T2209 · [[Ciro Daniel Amorim Ferreira]] +- 2026-10-05T2209 · [[Terrorgram Collective]] +- 2026-10-05T2209 · [[United States v. Humber]] +- 2026-10-05T2209 · [[Dallas Humber]] +- 2026-10-05T2209 · [[Gabriel Rodrigues Castiglioni]] +- 2026-10-05T2209 · [[2022 Aracruz School Shootings]] +- 2026-10-05T2207 · [[Gabriel Rodrigues Castiglioni]] +- 2026-10-05T2206 · [[_NOTES_K3]] +- 2026-10-05T2206 · [[_DELTA_Dallas Humber_K3]] +- 2026-10-05T2206 · [[_DELTA_2022 Aracruz School Shootings_K3]] - 2026-10-05T2149 · [[Kami Feld]] - 2026-10-05T2149 · [[United States v. Rane et al. (2-25-cr-00040)]] - 2026-10-05T2149 · [[Clint Borge]] @@ -88,13 +98,3 @@ - 2026-10-05T1803 · [[Iran-Contra Affair]] - 2026-10-05T1802 · [[Horizon Institute for Public Service]] - 2026-10-05T1802 · [[Kenneth A. Roe]] -- 2026-10-05T1802 · [[Southern Air Transport]] -- 2026-10-05T1802 · [[Arkansas]] -- 2026-10-05T1802 · [[Mena, Arkansas]] -- 2026-10-05T1802 · [[Eugene Hasenfus]] -- 2026-10-05T1802 · [[Barry Seal]] -- 2026-10-05T1802 · [[Felix Rodriguez]] -- 2026-10-05T1802 · [[Eugene Hasenfus]] -- 2026-10-05T1801 · [[_FOIA_B3]] -- 2026-10-05T1801 · [[_NOTES_B3]] -- 2026-10-05T1801 · [[_FOIA_B2]] diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Ciro Daniel Amorim Ferreira.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Ciro Daniel Amorim Ferreira.md index 41f68f93..4ba266e6 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Ciro Daniel Amorim Ferreira.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Ciro Daniel Amorim Ferreira.md @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ born: 1987-08-27 location: "Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil" created: 2026-05-22 updated: 2026-05-22 -summary: "Ciro Daniel Amorim Ferreira is a Brazilian national from Belo Horizonte designated as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the US Treasury and State Department on January 13, 2025, for his role as a Terrorgram Collective channel administrator running at least six Telegram channels promoting accelerationist and white supremacist propaganda." +summary: "Ciro Daniel Amorim Ferreira is a Belo Horizonte, Brazil resident designated a Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the US State Department on January 13, 2025 as a Terrorgram Collective channel administrator." --- Ciro Daniel Amorim Ferreira (born August 27, 1987, [[Belo Horizonte]], [[Minas Gerais]], Brazil) is a Brazilian national designated as a [[Specially Designated Global Terrorist]] (SDGT) on January 13, 2025, pursuant to [[Executive Order 13224]], as amended by [[Executive Order 13886]], in connection with his role as an administrator of the [[Terrorgram Collective]]. He was one of three foreign nationals designated simultaneously alongside [[Noah Licul]] (Croatia) and [[Hendrik-Wahl Muller]] (South Africa), the same action that formally designated the Terrorgram Collective itself as a terrorist organization. No Brazilian criminal charges arising from his Terrorgram activity have been publicly confirmed as of mid-2026; the designation is a US Treasury [[Office of Foreign Assets Control]] (OFAC) civil sanction, not a criminal indictment.[^1] @@ -24,13 +24,13 @@ As a result of the designation, all property and interests in property subject t ### Role in the Terrorgram Collective -The State Department described Ferreira as an administrator of at least six [[Telegram]] channels, operating under the broader [[Terrorgram Collective]] network of more than 200 Telegram channels that collectively produce and disseminate accelerationist and white supremacist propaganda. The Terrorgram Collective provides guidance and instructional materials on tactics, methods, and targets for attacks, including against critical infrastructure and government officials. Ferreira also maintained an active presence on [[Substack]], [[X (formerly Twitter)]], [[YouTube]], and [[Quora]], with an inactive [[Instagram]] profile, consistent with the Terrorgram ecosystem's use of multiple platforms to preserve redundancy against takedowns.[^1][^3] +The State Department described Ferreira as an administrator of at least six [[Telegram]] channels, operating under the broader Terrorgram Collective network of more than 200 Telegram channels that collectively produce and disseminate accelerationist and white supremacist propaganda. The Terrorgram Collective provides guidance and instructional materials on tactics, methods, and targets for attacks, including against critical infrastructure and government officials. Ferreira also maintained an active presence on [[Substack]], [[X (formerly Twitter)]], [[YouTube]], and [[Quora]], with an inactive [[Instagram]] profile, consistent with the Terrorgram ecosystem's use of multiple platforms to preserve redundancy against takedowns.[^1][^3] In 2023, Brazilian researcher [[Michele Prado]], founder of the NGO [[Stop Hate Brasil]], submitted a report to Brazil's [[ABIN]] (Agência Brasileira de Inteligência) and the [[Ministry of Justice and Public Security]] that identified Telegram channels linked to Ferreira and other members of the Terrorgram network operating in Brazil. This report represented one of the first formal institutional flaggings of Ferreira's channels to Brazilian authorities.[^3] ### Prior Criminal Record -Brazilian state-level records, as reported by Brazilian media following the 2025 designation, indicate that Ferreira has two prior prison records from units in [[Minas Gerais]], for crimes including theft, bodily injury, and false imprisonment. He was imprisoned twice, in 2015 and 2016, receiving court-issued release warrants in both instances. These offenses predated his documented Terrorgram activity and are unrelated to extremism or terrorism charges.[^4] +Brazilian state-level records, as reported by Brazilian media following the 2025 designation, indicate that Ferreira has two prior prison records from units in Minas Gerais, for crimes including theft, bodily injury, and false imprisonment. He was imprisoned twice, in 2015 and 2016, receiving court-issued release warrants in both instances. These offenses predated his documented Terrorgram activity and are unrelated to extremism or terrorism charges.[^4] ### Pre-Extremism Activity @@ -38,26 +38,22 @@ According to OSINT sources cited in contemporaneous Brazilian and Latin American ### Aracruz Attack and Wolf Boy Winter -The US government did not publicly detail in the January 2025 designation documents whether Ferreira had direct contact with [[Gabriel Rodrigues Castiglioni]], who carried out the [[2022 Aracruz School Shootings]] on November 25, 2022. The State Department's broader Terrorgram designation cited the Aracruz attack as one of the attacks motivated and facilitated by the Terrorgram network, alongside the October 2022 LGBTQ+ bar shooting in [[Bratislava]] and subsequent attacks. The Aracruz connection to Terrorgram was most specifically documented through [[Dallas Humber]]'s prosecution: Humber and [[Matthew Robert Allison]] discussed a Brazilian contact planning a racially motivated school attack approximately one month before the attack, and Humber subsequently created saint cards for Castiglioni.[^5] +The State Department's January 2025 designation listed attacks "motivated and facilitated by the group" in [[Bratislava]] (October 2022), a planned attack on New Jersey energy facilities (July 2024) and a knife attack at a mosque in Turkey (August 2024); it does not name the [[2022 Aracruz School Shootings]] carried out by [[Gabriel Rodrigues Castiglioni]] on November 25, 2022.[^1] The government's sentencing memorandum against [[Dallas Humber]] lists "G.C." among people who plotted or committed attacks "inspired and guided by her leadership" and says she made "Saint cards" commemorating the shootings by J.K. and G.C.; Raw Story reported a government filing describing an October 23, 2022 chat in which Humber told [[Matthew Robert Allison]] she had direct messages with a Terrorgram user planning a racially motivated school shooting.[^5][^6] -A figure using the [[Terrorgram]] pseudonym "[[Wolf Boy Winter]]" posted a video still from Aracruz attack surveillance footage to a major Terrorgram channel approximately two days after the November 25, 2022 attack, and contributed multiple pages to "[[The Hard Reset]]," one of Terrorgram's primary propaganda publications. Michele Prado's 2023 ABIN report identified channels linked to "Wolf Boy Winter." No public source has established the identity of "Wolf Boy Winter" as Ferreira; the two remain separately documented nodes in publicly available records.[^3] +The researcher Michele Prado told Raw Story that a Terrorgram user with the pseudonym "[[Wolf Boy Winter]]" contributed pages to "[[The Hard Reset]]," one of Terrorgram's primary propaganda publications, and that her 2023 report to [[Agência Brasileira de Inteligência|ABIN]] identified channels linked to that pseudonym.[^3][^6] ### International Designations The January 13, 2025, action designated Terrorgram as a terrorist organization and simultaneously named three foreign administrators in three different countries, a structure reflecting the network's explicitly transnational character. Noah Licul (Croatia), designated as a "senior member," had been active in the network since at least 2019 under the alias "buntovnik" and is documented in the [[Feuerkrieg Division]] to Terrorgram personnel lineage. Hendrik-Wahl Muller (South Africa) was described as a channel administrator, parallel to Ferreira's role description.[^1] -The Terrorgram Collective had already been designated by the [[United Kingdom]] (April 2024, SI 2024/569), [[Australia]] (F2025L00762), and [[Canada]] (SOR/2025-263) before and following the US action. None of these proscription instruments publicly named Ferreira specifically. The US action of January 13, 2025 was the first government designation to name a Brazilian national as a Terrorgram Collective administrator.[^1][^6] +The Terrorgram Collective had already been designated by the [[United Kingdom]] (April 2024, SI 2024/569), [[Australia]] (F2025L00762), and [[Canada]] (SOR/2025-263) before and following the US action. None of these proscription instruments publicly named Ferreira specifically. The US action of January 13, 2025 was the first government designation to name a Brazilian national as a Terrorgram Collective administrator.[^1][^7] ### Footnotes [^1]: US Department of State, "Terrorist Designations of The Terrorgram Collective and Three Leaders," January 13, 2025. https://2021-2025.state.gov/office-of-the-spokesperson/releases/2025/01/terrorist-designations-of-the-terrorgram-collective-and-three-leaders/ - [^2]: Federal Register, Vol. 90, No. 10, Document 2025-00756, "Specially Designated Global Terrorist Designations of The Terrorgram Collective, Ciro Daniel Amorim Ferreira, Noah Licul, and Hendrik-Wahl Muller," January 15, 2025. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/15/2025-00756/specially-designated-global-terrorist-designations-of-the-terrorgram-collective-ciro-daniel-amorim; OFAC SDN Entry 52486, sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov/Details.aspx?id=52486 - [^3]: GNET (Global Network on Extremism and Technology). "Terrorgram and Youth Radicalisation: Understanding Brazil's Online Extremist Landscape," November 22, 2024. https://gnet-research.org/2024/11/22/terrorgram-and-youth-radicalisation-understanding-brazils-online-extremist-landscape/ - [^4]: CNN Brasil. "Quem e o brasileiro que integra a lista de terroristas do governo dos EUA," January 2025. https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/nacional/sudeste/mg/quem-e-o-brasileiro-que-integra-a-lista-de-terroristas-dos-eua/; Infobae. "Un brasileno declarado terrorista por EEUU es uno de los lideres de 'Terrorgram'," January 16, 2025. https://www.infobae.com/america/america-latina/2025/01/16/un-brasileno-declarado-terrorista-por-eeuu-es-uno-de-los-lideres-de-terrorgram-la-red-supremacista-de-telegram/ - -[^5]: US Department of Justice, OPA. "Leader of Transnational Terrorist Group Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison for Soliciting Hate Crimes and Murder," December 19, 2025. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/leader-transnational-terrorist-group-sentenced-30-years-prison-soliciting-hate-crimes-and - -[^6]: UK SI 2024/569, Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2024; Canada Gazette SOR/2025-263, December 17, 2025; Australia F2025L00762, legislation.gov.au. +[^5]: United States v. Humber, No. 2:24-cr-00257 (E.D. Cal.), ECF 90, "Formal PSR Objections and Sentencing Memorandum" by the United States, November 26, 2025. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.caed.452335/gov.uscourts.caed.452335.90.0.pdf +[^6]: "Terrorgram: Exporting Terrorism" (Raw Investigates), Raw Story, March 7, 2025. https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/terrorgram-terrorism/ +[^7]: UK SI 2024/569, Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2024; Canada Gazette SOR/2025-263, December 17, 2025; Australia F2025L00762, legislation.gov.au. diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Gabriel Rodrigues Castiglioni.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Gabriel Rodrigues Castiglioni.md index e566e2d1..696c53e1 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Gabriel Rodrigues Castiglioni.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Gabriel Rodrigues Castiglioni.md @@ -2,38 +2,123 @@ category: "Extremism & Violent Networks" tags: - Person - - TerrorgramCollective + - Brazil + - SchoolAttack - NeoNazi - Accelerationism - - Brazil - - SaintsCulture + - TerrorgramCollective + - Telegram - MassShooter born: 2006 location: "Aracruz, Espírito Santo, Brazil" created: 2026-05-21 -updated: 2026-05-21 -summary: "Gabriel Rodrigues Castiglioni was a 16-year-old Brazilian who attacked two schools in Aracruz in November 2022, killing four, in an attack Terrorgram Collective leader Dallas Humber mentored and subsequently memorialized with saint cards." +updated: 2026-10-05 +aliases: + - Gabriel Castiglioni + - Aracruz shooter +summary: "Gabriel Rodrigues Castiglioni, 16, killed four people and wounded twelve at two Aracruz schools on November 25, 2022, served three years of internment, and appears in U.S. filings against Dallas Humber as G.C." +relations: + - type: participant_in + with: "[[2022 Aracruz School Shootings]]" + start: 2022-11-25 + role: "Perpetrator" + fn: 1 + - type: prosecuted + with: "[[Ministério Público do Espírito Santo]]" + reverse: true + start: 2022-11-25 + end: 2022-12-07 + role: "Ato infracional proceeding, Vara da Infância e Juventude de Aracruz" + fn: 20 + - type: investigated + with: "[[Polícia Federal]]" + reverse: true + start: 2023-04-05 + role: "Telegram group inquiry" + fn: 10 + - type: relative_of + with: "[[Fábio Castiglione]]" + role: "Son of a Polícia Militar lieutenant" + fn: 5 --- -[[Gabriel Rodrigues Castiglioni]] (born approximately 2006, [[Aracruz, Espírito Santo, Brazil]]) was 16 when he attacked two schools in Aracruz on November 25, 2022, killing four people and wounding eleven. He wore military-style camouflage, a bulletproof vest, a skull mask associated with [[Atomwaffen Division]], and a homemade swastika armband, and had been active in online neo-Nazi accelerationist communities including [[Terrorgram Collective]] channels. In the prosecution of [[Dallas Humber]] in the [[Eastern District of California]], DOJ prosecutors documented that on or around October 23, 2022 - one month before the attack - Humber and [[Matthew Robert Allison]] had discussed in a secret [[Telegram]] chat a Brazilian contact planning "a racially motivated school attack in Brazil." Prosecutors attributed the Aracruz attack to Humber's guidance, and Humber subsequently created Terrorgram "saint cards" for Castiglioni and referred to him as "her kid." Castiglioni was sentenced to three years in juvenile detention - the maximum penalty available for minors under Brazilian law at the time of sentencing in December 2022.[^1] +[[Gabriel Rodrigues Castiglioni]] (born approximately 2006) was 16 years old on November 25, 2022, when he entered the [[Escola Estadual Primo Bitti]] and then the [[Centro Educacional Praia de Coqueiral]] in the Coqueiral district of [[Aracruz, Espírito Santo]], [[Brazil]], armed with two firearms belonging to his father, a lieutenant of the [[Polícia Militar do Espírito Santo]]. Three teachers and a 12-year-old student were killed and twelve people were wounded.[^1] He was a former student of Primo Bitti and was apprehended the same afternoon at a family beach house.[^2] Brazilian outlets including [[A Gazeta]] withheld his name, citing the [[Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente]] (ECA);[^3] the [[Department of Justice|United States Department of Justice]] sentencing filings in the prosecution of [[Dallas Humber]] refer to him by the initials "G.C."[^4] -### The Aracruz Attacks +### Family and Early Years -On November 25, 2022, Castiglioni attacked [[Escola Estadual Primo Bitti]] first, then [[Escola Praia de Coqueiral]]. Four people were killed: student [[Selena Zagrillo]] (12), who was shot while hiding under a desk, teacher [[Maria da Penha Pereira de Melo Banhos]] (48), who was attempting to shield students, [[Cybelle Passos Bezerra Lara]] (45), and [[Flavia Amoss Merçon Leonardo]] (38). Eleven additional people were wounded. +According to Brazilian press reports, his father, [[Fábio Castiglione]] (spelled Castiglioni in some outlets), was a lieutenant of the Polícia Militar do Espírito Santo who was also identified as a psychoanalyst, as identified by [[Metrópoles]].[^5] Metrópoles reported that the father's Instagram profile carried a post recommending Hitler's [[Mein Kampf]] with the caption "Reading is one of the keys to the expansion of consciousness"; the father told [[O Estado de S. Paulo]], in a statement relayed by [[Mídia NINJA]], that the book was terrible and that he had read it and hated it.[^5][^6] The family's lawyer, [[Priscila Benichio]], told [[Record TV]] that the parents had noticed their son's interest in the Second World War, had taken him to a museum, and had not recognized an interest in Nazism; she said he was being treated for depression, with medication.[^7] A school secretary and a teacher at Primo Bitti described him to the same program as quiet and as someone with depression.[^7] -Castiglioni had been active on social media displaying admiration for Nazi ideology and claimed to have begun planning the attack in 2019 following a period of bullying, placing his radicalization in the same post-[[2019 Christchurch Mosque Shootings|Christchurch]] window as many other Terrorgram-linked cases. No separate written manifesto was publicly confirmed; his documented online activity constituted his ideological record.[^2] +The police delegate in charge, [[André Jaretta]] of the [[Delegacia Especializada de Homicídios e Proteção à Pessoa de Aracruz]] (DHPP), said at a press conference on November 28, 2022 that the teenager reported having been bullied in 2019, began in 2020 to think about how to carry out an attack while telling no one, and for two years took his parents' weapons during their absences to "create intimacy" with them while studying the use of weapons on the internet.[^8] Jaretta later told Record that the teenager had first intended to attack a different school, farther from his home, where he said he had been bullied, and changed to the two nearest schools.[^7] Police dated his interest in Nazi material to 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, when at age 14 he began visiting websites and forums, joining message groups that spread Nazi ideas, and consuming and producing violent videos; Jaretta summarized that "he believed a violent action could be a gesture of protest."[^7] According to the police, he left Primo Bitti in June 2022, of his own will and with his parents' consent.[^8] -### Terrorgram Connection +### Telegram Groups and the Federal Police -The Humber prosecution established the most direct documented link between Terrorgram and the Aracruz attack. Court documents confirmed that on approximately October 23, 2022, Humber and Allison discussed a Brazilian contact's plans in a secret Telegram channel. Humber's subsequent creation of saint cards for Castiglioni - and her characterization of him as "her kid" - indicates a relationship extending beyond passive inspiration to something closer to the mentorship dynamic she had also maintained with prospective attackers in other countries. +The [[Polícia Federal]] (PF) examined the telephone seized from him. In a report to the [[1ª Vara Federal de Linhares]], PF delegate [[Leopoldo Soares Lacerda]] wrote that the minor "was inspired by the material shared on the application to commit the act of violent extremism"; the phone held texts on how to "kill people with bare hands," suicide manuals, photographs of him with a book by Hitler, and interactions in [[Telegram]] groups.[^9] The files came from an antisemitic channel, "Movimento Anti-Semita Brasileiro," and a companion chat, "Frente Anti-Semita"; the group's repository included documents titled "Manual do Guerrilheiro Urbano," "22 maneiras de matar," "Técnicas Proibidas (bombas e armas)" and "O manual do Terrorista."[^10][^11] Lacerda wrote that the administrators of the channel and the chat "are the main investigated."[^9] -The Aracruz attack is listed in Humber's sentencing documents as the most lethal Terrorgram-attributed attack to that point. It is also cited explicitly in [[Matthew Althorpe]]'s Canadian sentencing (March 27, 2026) as one of the attacks his publications helped inspire.[^1] +On the day of the attack the [[Polícia Civil do Espírito Santo]] said it was working with the hypothesis that the teenager had no defined target and might have acted under the stimulus of extremist groups that organize online inside and outside Brazil.[^2] On November 28, 2022 Jaretta said the case appeared isolated, "without participation of Nazi cells," while leaving all lines of inquiry open.[^8] By March 2023, Lieutenant [[Adriano de Farias]] of the Polícia Militar, quoted by Record, described the conclusion of the police inquiry: "from the execution on, he did everything alone. But in the planning he maintained some contacts with neo-Nazi groups, but we do not know how to detail what kind of support was given to him for the execution of this crime."[^7] + +Justice Minister [[Flávio Dino]] had ordered the PF on April 5, 2023 to investigate Nazi and neo-Nazi organizations operating in Brazil.[^10] After the PF found the two Telegram groups on the Aracruz phone, it asked the Linhares federal court on April 14, 2023 to break the confidentiality of the channel and chat data.[^11] Telegram supplied the administrator data for one channel and said the other group had been deleted; on April 26, 2023 federal judge [[Wellington Lopes da Silva]] found the compliance only partial, raised the daily fine from R$100,000 to R$1 million, and ordered the application suspended nationwide.[^10][^11] Dino publicly supported the order.[^11] + +On June 2, 2023 the PF executed search warrants in São Paulo and Petrolina, Pernambuco, in "Operação Bedel," against two members of the group whom it identified despite what it called the company's low cooperation. The PF stated that they were investigated for corrupting a minor under 18 by inducing him to commit qualified homicide and an offense under the Anti-Terrorism Law (Lei 13.260/2016), through the sharing of antisemitic, racist and violent-extremist material, with combined maximum penalties of 72 years. The PF wrote that "the use of the swastika on the minor's clothing at the time of the attack demonstrates the influence of Nazi ideology received from the application group."[^12][^13] + +### November 25, 2022 + +According to the reconstruction given by Jaretta on November 28, the parents left their Coqueiral home to shop in the city center, and the teenager used the opportunity. He dressed, took the family car with its license plate covered, and entered Primo Bitti by a rear gate whose padlock he cut, then forced a second gate to reach the teachers' room. There he fired a pistol until it was empty, reloaded and fired again. He then drove to the Centro Educacional Praia de Coqueiral, a private school, stopped in front of the open main gate and fired a .38 revolver at students in the entrance hall, then through a window into a classroom on the upper floor. He took the car to a remote spot, uncovered the plate, went home, and put the clothing and weapons away.[^8] The attack began at about 9:30 in the morning;[^2] at the second school he made three student victims, one of them fatal, in a little over a minute, according to A Gazeta.[^14] The parents later remarked on the shootings at home, and the family had lunch before going to the beach house where he was apprehended at about 2:10 in the afternoon, the Polícia Civil said.[^15] + +The weapons were a .40 pistol that the Polícia Militar had issued to the father for service and a .38 revolver he had bought privately.[^16] Jaretta said the pistol was kept in the father's bedroom under folded clothes and the revolver on top of a cabinet with a padlock, which the teenager opened; after the attack he reattached the padlock as his father kept it.[^7][^8] The commander of the Polícia Militar, [[Douglas Caus]], said that day that a disciplinary procedure was being opened to determine the circumstances in which the teenager obtained the two weapons, "one from the corporation and one of personal registration."[^15] The head of the Polícia Civil, [[José Darcy Arruda]], told [[Jornal Nacional]] that police would investigate whether the father taught his son to drive and to use a weapon, and that "if it is proven that the father, in some way, had a part in this behavior, he will certainly answer too."[^17] The family's lawyer said the father taught him to drive but not to shoot; Jaretta said the teenager's knowledge of how to handle a firearm was "quite evident" but that training could not be affirmed.[^7] According to Mídia NINJA, the teenager told police that he learned to shoot from YouTube, an account that relatives of victims and teachers disputed.[^6] + +Security cameras recorded the attack. He wore camouflage clothing, a hat, a vest and a mask, with an armband bearing a swastika that Governor [[Renato Casagrande]] confirmed as a Nazi symbol; [[Agência Brasil]] described the mask as a skeleton face similar to the one worn in social-media photographs by one of the perpetrators of the 2019 [[Suzano school shooting]].[^2] The [[Associated Press]] reported the swastika pinned to his vest.[^18] According to Folha Vitória, police found at the family home a swastika drawn by hand, air guns and other extremist content.[^7] + +The teachers who died were [[Maria da Penha Pereira de Melo Banhos]] (48), [[Cybelle Passos Bezerra Lara]] (45), a mathematics teacher and permanent state employee since 2018, and [[Flávia Amboss Merçon Leonardo]], who died in hospital on November 26; the student was [[Selena Sagrillo Zuccolotto]], 12, a sixth-grader at the private school.[^14] Flávia Amboss had defended a doctoral thesis at the [[Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais]] and was an activist of the [[Movimento dos Atingidos por Barragens]].[^19] Ages given for her differ between outlets (36 and 38).[^7][^14] The state Health Secretariat's bulletin of November 26 listed a boy of 11 and a girl of 14 among the gravely wounded in intensive care.[^14] Police charged him with acts analogous to three qualified homicides and ten attempted homicides, committed for a trivial motive and endangering the public, a count made before the fourth death.[^3][^17] He confessed after being shown the surveillance footage and indicated where the weapons were.[^8] ### Brazilian Legal Outcome -Brazilian courts sentenced Castiglioni to three years in juvenile detention in December 2022, representing the maximum penalty available under Brazilian law for a minor at the time. He completed the sentence and was placed on supervised release by November 2025.[^2] +The judge of the Vara da Infância e Juventude de Aracruz, [[Felipe Leitão]], had ordered provisional internment of up to 45 days. At a hearing on December 7, 2022, after the witnesses called by the [[Ministério Público do Espírito Santo]] (MPES), oral final arguments and the sentence were delivered in the same session: the judge upheld the representation and imposed the socio-educational measure of internment for up to three years, with a psychiatric protective measure during internment. The enforcement judge of the 3ª Vara da Infância e da Juventude de Vitória was to review the internment every six months on reports from the [[Instituto de Atendimento Socioeducativo do Espírito Santo]] (Iases).[^20] CartaCapital reported that the three-year term was the maximum for minors under 18 and that he was taken to Cariacica.[^21] Record reported in March 2023 that psychological evaluations up to then had diagnosed no psychic disorder.[^7] + +Other proceedings arising from the case remained under seal, and Record reported in March 2023 that one examined possible carelessness in the storage of the weapons.[^7] The Polícia Militar's disciplinary procedure against the father, opened on November 28, 2022, left him on administrative duties during its course.[^6][^8] In June 2025, victims and relatives circulated a petition stating that the father, "lieutenant of the Military Police and responsible for the weapons used in the crime, has until today not been punished and has not even been located to be officially cited in the process," and asking the state and the MPES to hold him responsible for negligence and complicity; the petition also asked that the teenager be tried again as an adult.[^19] + +The [[Governo do Espírito Santo]] sent the legislative assembly a bill in 2023 for R$2.39 million in compensation, limited to people hurt at the state school Primo Bitti, modeled on the plan São Paulo adopted after Suzano; amounts were kept confidential by a clause in the plan, and the private school's victims were excluded on the advice of the state attorney's office.[^22] + +He completed the three years of internment in late November 2025. The [[Tribunal de Justiça do Espírito Santo]] (TJES) confirmed to A Gazeta on December 2, 2025 that he had left Iases, without giving the date, and said that he continues under the socio-educational measure of assisted liberty (liberdade assistida), which has a minimum duration of six months.[^1][^23] The MPES said that Brazilian law does not allow a person to be held responsible again as an adult after full compliance with a socio-educational measure, that he received psychiatric care during internment, and that after the three-year maximum internment may be replaced by a milder measure under article 121, paragraph 4 of the ECA.[^1][^23] Jaretta, by then head of the Aracruz regional station, said it was "inconceivable that he is already free" and called on the National Congress to lengthen the maximum internment.[^23] The law firm Soneghet Adami Advogados Associados, which represents many of the injured, said it respected the decision as grounded in the ECA and was pursuing legal action against the state.[^1] + +### Terrorgram and the United States Record + +The government's sentencing memorandum in [[United States v. Humber]], filed November 26, 2025 in the [[Eastern District of California]], lists seven people who "plotted and/or committed attacks" "inspired and guided by her leadership," including "G.C. shot eleven people, killing four, at two schools in Aracruz, Brazil." The same filing says the government would file under seal the "Saint cards" Humber created "to celebrate and commemorate the mass-shootings committed by J.K. and G.C., whom she considers 'symbolically [her] kids.'"[^4] J.K. is [[Juraj Krajčík]], who attacked a bar in [[Bratislava]] on October 12, 2022.[^24] + +The contact between Humber and a person planning a school shooting became public in a government filing opposing bail for [[Matthew Robert Allison]], who was arrested with Humber on September 5, 2024.[^25] Raw Story reported in March 2025 that the filing, made the previous month, described a secret chat of October 23, 2022 in which Humber told Allison "she had direct messages with a Terrorgram user who was planning to commit a racially motivated school shooting," and that the details provided matched the Aracruz attack a month later.[^26] Raw Story's December 2025 account reported that the government alleged she communicated directly with Castiglioni before the attack.[^24] ProPublica and [[FRONTLINE]] wrote that after the attack Humber posted to a Terrorgram channel a ZIP file of information on it, including 17 photographs and four videos, said the massacre was motivated by "Hatred of non-Whites," and wrote that the assailant would get a "SLAP ON THE WRIST" sentence because of his age; the same account called it the most deadly known crime stemming from Terrorgram and said the teenager was later hailed as a saint by Terrorgram users.[^27] + +At the sentencing on December 17, 2025, Special Litigation Counsel [[Christopher J. Perras]] told Judge [[Dena Coggins]] that Humber "was responsible for inciting" a mass shooting in Bratislava, a mass stabbing outside a mosque in Turkey "and a school shooting in Aracruz, Brazil that left teachers and children dead."[^28] The Justice Department's release of the same date, announcing a sentence of 360 months, states that "individuals led by Humber and the Terrorgram Collective have committed acts of violence internationally, including ... shooting 11 people, killing four, at two schools in Aracruz, Brazil."[^29] + +[[Sofia Schurig]] wrote for the [[Global Network on Extremism and Technology]] (GNET) that a 2022 report she authored for [[Núcleo Jornalismo]], monitoring 46 Telegram groups and channels spreading neo-Nazi propaganda including the Terrorgram zine The Hard Reset, was published at the time of the Aracruz attack, and that the Brazilian Federal Police attributed the teenager's radicalization to his exposure to Telegram and Terrorgram channels.[^30] The PF statements and report quoted above name the Telegram channel "Movimento Anti-Semita Brasileiro" and its companion chat.[^10][^12] The Brazilian researcher [[Michele Prado]], founder of [[Stop Hate Brasil]], told Raw Story that she submitted a report on Terrorgram in 2023 to the [[Agência Brasileira de Inteligência]] (ABIN) and the [[Ministry of Justice and Public Security]].[^26] ### Footnotes -[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice, OPA. "Leader of Transnational Terrorist Group Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison for Soliciting Hate Crimes and Murder." December 19, 2025. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/leader-transnational-terrorist-group-sentenced-30-years-prison-soliciting-hate-crimes-and; Public Prosecution Service of Canada. "PPSC Sentencing Announcement, Matthew Althorpe." March 27, 2026. https://www.ppsc.gc.ca/eng/nws-nvs/2026/27_03_26.html -[^2]: CBS News. "Teen suspect in Brazil school shootings wore swastika armband, police say." November 2022. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/teen-suspect-brazil-school-shootings-4-killed-wore-swastika-police-say/ +[^1]: Júlia Afonso, "Atirador em ataques a escolas de Aracruz é solto após três anos," A Gazeta, December 2, 2025. https://www.agazeta.com.br/es/policia/atirador-em-ataques-a-escolas-de-aracruz-e-solto-apos-tres-anos-1225 +[^2]: Léo Rodrigues, "ES: adolescente usa arma do pai e símbolo nazista em ataque a escolas," Agência Brasil, November 25, 2022. https://agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br/geral/noticia/2022-11/es-adolescente-usa-arma-do-pai-e-simbolo-nazista-em-ataque-escolas +[^3]: "Polícia investiga se atirador de Aracruz tem ligação com grupos neonazistas," A Gazeta, November 26, 2022. https://www.agazeta.com.br/es/policia/policia-investiga-se-atirador-de-aracruz-tem-ligacao-com-grupos-neonazistas-1122 +[^4]: United States v. Humber, No. 2:24-cr-00257 (E.D. Cal.), ECF 90, "Formal PSR Objections and Sentencing Memorandum" by the United States, November 26, 2025. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.caed.452335/gov.uscourts.caed.452335.90.0.pdf +[^5]: Manoela Alcântara and Ana Karolline Rodrigues, "Pai do autor de ataque em escolas indicou leitura de 'guia' nazista," Metrópoles, November 26, 2022. https://www.metropoles.com/brasil/pai-do-autor-de-ataque-em-escolas-indicou-leitura-de-guia-nazista +[^6]: "Familiares e professores criticam processo de esquecimento do massacre de Aracruz e pedem justiça," Mídia NINJA, December 2, 2022. https://midianinja.org/familiares-e-professores-criticam-processo-de-esquecimento-do-massacre-de-aracruz/ +[^7]: "Interesse de atirador de Aracruz por conteúdo nazista começou aos 14 anos," Folha Vitória (reporting the Repórter Record Investigativo program of TV Vitória/Record TV), March 2023. https://www.folhavitoria.com.br/geral/massacre-de-aracruz-interesse-de-atirador-por-conteudo-nazista-comecou-aos-14-anos/ +[^8]: "PM instaura Processo Administrativo contra pai de assassino de Aracruz," Século Diário, press conference of November 28, 2022. https://www.seculodiario.com.br/seguranca/pm-instaura-processo-administrativo-contra-pai-de-assassino-de-aracruz/ +[^9]: "PF diz que post antissemita no Telegram influenciou ataque a escola em Aracruz," CartaCapital, April 27, 2023. https://www.cartacapital.com.br/cartaexpressa/pf-diz-que-publicacao-antissemita-no-telegram-influenciou-ataque-a-escola-em-aracruz/ +[^10]: "Justiça determina a suspensão do Telegram por não repassar dados à PF," Gazeta do Povo, April 2023. https://www.gazetadopovo.com.br/vida-e-cidadania/justica-determina-suspensao-do-telegram-no-brasil-por-nao-apresentar-dados-a-pf/ +[^11]: "Entenda por que juiz do ES mandou tirar Telegram do ar," A Gazeta, April 2023. https://www.agazeta.com.br/es/cotidiano/entenda-por-que-juiz-do-es-mandou-tirar-telegram-do-ar-0423 +[^12]: "PF cumpre mandados contra grupo neonazista ligado a assassino de Aracruz," A Gazeta, June 2, 2023. https://www.agazeta.com.br/es/policia/pf-cumpre-mandados-contra-grupo-neonazista-ligado-a-assassino-de-aracruz-0623 +[^13]: "PF faz operação contra grupo neonazista que teria induzido autor de ataque em escola em Aracruz," CNN Brasil, June 2, 2023. https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/nacional/pf-faz-operacao-contra-grupo-que-compartilhava-conteudo-extremista-em-redes-sociais/ +[^14]: "Ataques em escolas: saiba quem são as vítimas mortas em Aracruz," A Gazeta, November 26, 2022. https://www.agazeta.com.br/es/policia/ataques-em-escolas-saiba-quem-sao-as-vitimas-mortas-em-aracruz-1122 +[^15]: "Após atentado, atirador de Aracruz almoçou com os pais e foi para a praia," SBT News, November 28, 2022. https://sbtnews.sbt.com.br/noticia/brasil/231714-apos-atentado-atirador-de-aracruz-almocou-com-os-pais-e-foi-para-a-praia +[^16]: "Autor de ataques em escolas de Aracruz é filho de PM e tinha suástica na roupa," O Tempo, November 25, 2022. https://www.otempo.com.br/brasil/autor-de-ataques-em-escolas-de-aracruz-e-filho-de-pm-e-tinha-suastica-na-roupa-1.2772415 +[^17]: "Polícia investiga se pai do atirador de Aracruz o instruiu a usar arma," Metrópoles, November 2022. https://www.metropoles.com/brasil/policia-investiga-se-pai-do-atirador-de-aracruz-o-instruiu-a-usar-arma +[^18]: "Teen suspect in Brazil school shootings which killed 4 wore swastika, police say," Associated Press, via CBS News, November 26, 2022. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/teen-suspect-brazil-school-shootings-4-killed-wore-swastika-police-say/ +[^19]: "Vítimas de atentado de Aracruz mobilizam abaixo-assinado por justiça," Século Diário, June 11, 2025. https://www.seculodiario.com.br/seguranca/vitimas-de-atentado-de-aracruz-mobilizam-abaixo-assinado-por-justica/ +[^20]: Tribunal de Justiça do Espírito Santo, "Juiz de Aracruz conclui processo em relação ao autor dos ataques às duas escolas ocorrido no mês de novembro," December 7, 2022. https://www.tjes.jus.br/?p=157406 +[^21]: "Justiça determina até 3 anos de internação para adolescente atirador de Aracruz," CartaCapital, December 7, 2022. https://www.cartacapital.com.br/cartaexpressa/justica-determina-ate-3-anos-de-internacao-para-adolescente-atirador-de-aracruz/ +[^22]: Fabiana Tostes, "Massacre de Aracruz: Governo do ES vai indenizar vítimas do ataque à escola estadual," Folha Vitória, 2023. https://www.folhavitoria.com.br/politica/massacre-de-aracruz-governo-do-es-vai-indenizar-vitimas-do-ataque-a-escola-estadual/ +[^23]: "Atirador de escolas em Aracruz é solto após 3 anos," Tribuna Online, December 2025. https://tribunaonline.com.br/policia/atirador-de-escolas-em-aracruz-e-solto-apos-3-anos-283744 +[^24]: "Ruthless neo-Nazi terrorist grooming new attackers from jail, U.S. DOJ says," Raw Story, December 8, 2025. https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/ruthless-neo-nazi-terrorist-grooming-new-attackers-from-jail-u-s-doj-says/ +[^25]: Anti-Defamation League, "Terrorgram Collective: International Terrorists Promoting Violence and White Supremacy." https://extremismterms.adl.org/resources/article/terrorgram-collective-international-terrorists-promoting-violence-and-white +[^26]: "Terrorgram: Exporting Terrorism" (Raw Investigates), Raw Story, March 7, 2025. https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/terrorgram-terrorism/ +[^27]: "The Rise and Fall of Terrorgram: Inside a Global Online Hate Network," ProPublica and PBS FRONTLINE, 2025. https://www.propublica.org/article/rise-and-fall-terrorgram-inside-global-online-hate-network-frontline-telegram +[^28]: United States v. Humber, No. 2:24-cr-00257 (E.D. Cal.), ECF 111, Transcript of Judgment and Sentencing, December 17, 2025, pp. 30-31 (statement of Christopher J. Perras). https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.caed.452335/gov.uscourts.caed.452335.111.0.pdf +[^29]: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Public Affairs, "Leader of Transnational Terrorist Group Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison for Soliciting Hate Crimes and Murder, and Conspiring to Provide Material Support to Terrorists," December 17, 2025. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/leader-transnational-terrorist-group-sentenced-30-years-prison-soliciting-hate-crimes-and +[^30]: Sofia Schurig, "Terrorgram and Youth Radicalisation: Understanding Brazil's Online Extremist Landscape," GNET, November 22, 2024. https://gnet-research.org/2024/11/22/terrorgram-and-youth-radicalisation-understanding-brazils-online-extremist-landscape/ diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Dallas Humber.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Dallas Humber.md index 0819d6f3..b865784a 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Dallas Humber.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Dallas Humber.md @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ tags: - California - USA - TerroristConviction -summary: "Dallas Humber is an Elk Grove, California woman who led the Terrorgram Collective's inner circle from July 2022, was charged in a 15-count indictment under case number 2:24-cr-00257 in the Eastern District of California, pleaded guilty to all counts on August 8, 2025, and was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison on December 19, 2025." +summary: "Dallas Humber, of Elk Grove, California, led the Terrorgram Collective's inner circle from July 2022, pleaded guilty to all 15 counts in August 2025 and was sentenced to 30 years on December 17, 2025." created: 2026-05-21 updated: 2026-05-22 born: 1990 @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ location: "Elk Grove, California" Humber assumed leadership of Terrorgram's inner operational circle in July 2022 following the May 2022 arrest of co-founder [[Pavol Beňadik]] in Slovakia. Under her direction, the inner collective produced *The Hard Reset: A Terrorgram Production* (261 pp., July 2022), the network's most operationally specific publication. -Humber's operational approach went beyond publishing. She maintained direct personal contact with individuals she identified as candidates for violence, directing them through the radicalization pipeline she described in her own terms. Court documents indicate she had communicated in October 2022 with a [[Telegram]] user planning a racially motivated school attack in Brazil, one month before [[Gabriel Castiglioni]] carried out the [[Aracruz school shootings]] on November 25, 2022, killing four students and wounding eleven. DOJ prosecutors attributed the Aracruz attack to her guidance as one of seven attacks or plots "inspired or guided by" her leadership.[^1] +Humber's operational approach went beyond publishing. She maintained direct personal contact with individuals she identified as candidates for violence, directing them through the radicalization pipeline she described in her own terms. Raw Story reported in March 2025 that a government filing opposing bail for Allison described an October 23, 2022 secret chat in which Humber told Allison she "had direct messages with a Terrorgram user who was planning to commit a racially motivated school shooting."[^2] One month later, on November 25, 2022, [[Gabriel Rodrigues Castiglioni]] carried out the [[2022 Aracruz School Shootings]], killing three teachers and a 12-year-old student and wounding twelve. The government's sentencing memorandum lists "G.C." among seven people who plotted or committed attacks "inspired and guided by her leadership," and says it would file under seal the "Saint cards" she created to commemorate the shootings by J.K. and G.C., "whom she considers 'symbolically [her] kids.'"[^3] Prosecutors also alleged that after her arrest in September 2024 and while held in pretrial detention, Humber continued attempting to communicate with and groom potential attackers from within the detention facility. This post-arrest conduct was noted in sentencing proceedings. @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ The 37-page indictment, filed September 5, 2024 and unsealed September 9, 2024, Count 1: Conspiracy. Counts 2-5: Four counts of soliciting hate crimes (targeting individuals on the basis of race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, and gender identity). Counts 6-8: Three counts of soliciting the murder of federal officials. Counts 9-11: Three counts of doxing federal officials (publishing private identifying information with intent to threaten). Count 12: One count of threatening communications (interstate). Counts 13-14: Two counts of distributing bombmaking instructions and information relating to destructive devices. Count 15: Conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, under 18 U.S.C. § 2339A. -The material support count (Count 15) was the most legally significant: 18 U.S.C. § 2339A applies to providing material support "knowing or intending" that it will be used in connection with specific terrorism offenses. Its companion statute, § 2339B, is restricted to designated [[Foreign Terrorist Organizations]] and cannot reach purely domestic actors. The decision to charge under 2339A rather than 2339B reflected both the domestic nature of Humber and Allison's activities and the fact that Terrorgram had not yet received a formal FTO designation (only the subsequent SDGT designation in January 2025). [[Lawfare]] analysts described this as a significant, if not entirely novel, use of the provision against an online white-supremacist content operation.[^2] +The material support count (Count 15) was the most legally significant: 18 U.S.C. § 2339A applies to providing material support "knowing or intending" that it will be used in connection with specific terrorism offenses. Its companion statute, § 2339B, is restricted to designated [[Foreign Terrorist Organizations]] and cannot reach purely domestic actors. The decision to charge under 2339A rather than 2339B reflected both the domestic nature of Humber and Allison's activities and the fact that Terrorgram had not yet received a formal FTO designation (only the subsequent SDGT designation in January 2025). [[Lawfare]] analysts described this as a significant, if not entirely novel, use of the provision against an online white-supremacist content operation.[^4] Combined maximum exposure across all 15 counts was 220 years. @@ -40,9 +40,9 @@ Combined maximum exposure across all 15 counts was 220 years. The indictment and subsequent DOJ press releases described specific conduct beyond general propaganda operation: -Infrastructure incitement: On approximately December 26, 2022, Humber posted images of electrical substation transformer components with the notation "for educational purposes only of course." On or about January 20, 2023, following the Randolph County, [[North Carolina]] [[EnergyUnited]] substation shooting of January 17, 2023 (which caused approximately $250,000 in damage), Humber posted a link to a news article about the attack and stated: "It seems as though this avenue of attack, an incredibly effective one at that, has really caught on. I like to think that all our hard work in detailing its effectiveness and showing our community how easy it is not only to do but to get away with, has helped encourage this." Prosecutors presented this post as evidence that she actively encouraged the replication of infrastructure attacks.[^3] +Infrastructure incitement: On approximately December 26, 2022, Humber posted images of electrical substation transformer components with the notation "for educational purposes only of course." On or about January 20, 2023, following the Randolph County, [[North Carolina]] [[EnergyUnited]] substation shooting of January 17, 2023 (which caused approximately $250,000 in damage), Humber posted a link to a news article about the attack and stated: "It seems as though this avenue of attack, an incredibly effective one at that, has really caught on. I like to think that all our hard work in detailing its effectiveness and showing our community how easy it is not only to do but to get away with, has helped encourage this." Prosecutors presented this post as evidence that she actively encouraged the replication of infrastructure attacks.[^5] -Brazil pre-attack contact: In October 2022, Humber communicated via Telegram with a user who stated he was planning a racially motivated school shooting in Brazil. One month later, on November 25, 2022, [[Gabriel Castiglioni]] (16) attacked two schools in [[Aracruz, Brazil]], killing four students and wounding eleven, wearing a swastika patch. DOJ prosecutors attributed the Aracruz attack to Humber's guidance as one of seven attacks or plots "inspired or guided by" her leadership. +Brazil pre-attack contact: ProPublica and FRONTLINE reported that after the Aracruz attack Humber posted to a Terrorgram channel a ZIP file of information on it (17 photographs, four videos) and wrote that the assailant would get a "SLAP ON THE WRIST" because of his age.[^6] At the sentencing, prosecutor [[Christopher J. Perras]] told the court she "was responsible for inciting" the Bratislava shooting, the Turkey stabbing "and a school shooting in Aracruz, Brazil that left teachers and children dead."[^7] Wisconsin murder-for-hire plot: Among the seven attacks attributed to Humber by DOJ, one involved a Wisconsin plot to murder two individuals as part of a broader scheme to assassinate a federal official. The specific targets and co-conspirators in that plot were not publicly identified in DOJ press releases. @@ -50,10 +50,14 @@ Wisconsin murder-for-hire plot: Among the seven attacks attributed to Humber by The FBI arrested Humber on September 5, 2024, in a coordinated operation. She and Allison were charged in the 15-count federal indictment described above. The prosecution was handled jointly by the [[Civil Rights Division]] of DOJ, the [[National Security Division]] of DOJ, and the [[U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of California]]. -Humber's change-of-plea hearing was set for August 8, 2025; she entered guilty pleas to all 15 counts at that hearing. On December 19, 2025, Judge Coggins sentenced her to 30 years (360 months) in federal prison plus lifetime supervised release. The 30-year sentence is the longest imposed on any Terrorgram Collective member in any jurisdiction and exceeded even the 20 years later given to co-founder [[Matthew Althorpe]] by Canada's Ontario Superior Court in March 2026.[^1] +Humber's change-of-plea hearing was set for August 8, 2025; she entered guilty pleas to all 15 counts at that hearing. On December 17, 2025, Judge Coggins sentenced her to 30 years (360 months) in federal prison plus lifetime supervised release. The 30-year sentence is the longest imposed on any Terrorgram Collective member in any jurisdiction and exceeded even the 20 years later given to co-founder [[Matthew Althorpe]] by Canada's Ontario Superior Court in March 2026.[^1] ### Footnotes [^1]: U.S. Department of Justice, OPA. "Leader of Transnational Terrorist Group Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison for Soliciting Hate Crimes and Murder, and Conspiring to Provide Material Support to Terrorists." December 19, 2025. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/leader-transnational-terrorist-group-sentenced-30-years-prison-soliciting-hate-crimes-and; U.S. Department of Justice, USAO-EDCA. Sentencing press release. December 19, 2025. https://www.justice.gov/usao-edca/pr/leader-transnational-terrorist-group-sentenced-30-years-prison-soliciting-hate-crimes -[^2]: U.S. Department of Justice, OPA. "Leaders of Transnational Terrorist Group Charged with Soliciting Hate Crimes, Soliciting the Murder of Federal Officials, and Conspiring to Provide Material Support to Terrorists." September 9, 2024. https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/leaders-transnational-terrorist-group-charged-soliciting-hate-crimes-soliciting-murder; Lawfare. "Why the Terrorgram Collective Designation Matters." January 2025. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/why-the-terrorgram-collective-designation-matters -[^3]: Fox 8 / WGHP. "'Terrorgram' leaders Dallas Humber, Matthew Allison referenced North Carolina EnergyUnited substation shooting, court documents show." September 2024. https://myfox8.com/news/storylines/power-grid-attack/indicted-terrorgram-neo-nazi-cited-randolph-county-substation-attack-court-documents-show-this-avenue-of-attack-has-really-caught-on/ +[^2]: "Terrorgram: Exporting Terrorism" (Raw Investigates), Raw Story, March 7, 2025. https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/terrorgram-terrorism/ +[^3]: United States v. Humber, No. 2:24-cr-00257 (E.D. Cal.), ECF 90, "Formal PSR Objections and Sentencing Memorandum" by the United States, November 26, 2025. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.caed.452335/gov.uscourts.caed.452335.90.0.pdf +[^4]: U.S. Department of Justice, OPA. "Leaders of Transnational Terrorist Group Charged with Soliciting Hate Crimes, Soliciting the Murder of Federal Officials, and Conspiring to Provide Material Support to Terrorists." September 9, 2024. https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/leaders-transnational-terrorist-group-charged-soliciting-hate-crimes-soliciting-murder; Lawfare. "Why the Terrorgram Collective Designation Matters." January 2025. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/why-the-terrorgram-collective-designation-matters +[^5]: Fox 8 / WGHP. "'Terrorgram' leaders Dallas Humber, Matthew Allison referenced North Carolina EnergyUnited substation shooting, court documents show." September 2024. https://myfox8.com/news/storylines/power-grid-attack/indicted-terrorgram-neo-nazi-cited-randolph-county-substation-attack-court-documents-show-this-avenue-of-attack-has-really-caught-on/ +[^6]: "The Rise and Fall of Terrorgram: Inside a Global Online Hate Network," ProPublica and PBS FRONTLINE, 2025. https://www.propublica.org/article/rise-and-fall-terrorgram-inside-global-online-hate-network-frontline-telegram +[^7]: United States v. Humber, No. 2:24-cr-00257 (E.D. Cal.), ECF 111, Transcript of Judgment and Sentencing, December 17, 2025, pp. 30-31. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.caed.452335/gov.uscourts.caed.452335.111.0.pdf diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/Terrorgram Collective.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/Terrorgram Collective.md index ba52159d..384cb039 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/Terrorgram Collective.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/Terrorgram Collective.md @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ start: 2019 location: "Telegram (online)" --- -[[Terrorgram Collective]] was an international accelerationist neo-Nazi network that coalesced on [[Telegram]] during the summer of 2019, co-founded by [[Pavol Beňadik]] of [[Slovakia]] and [[Matthew Althorpe]] of [[Canada]], in the immediate aftermath of [[Brenton Tarrant]]'s Christchurch mosque attacks. At its peak, the network operated through approximately 400 channels and 200 group chats, produced three major zine-format propaganda publications and a documentary-style video series, developed and distributed the "Saints Culture" framework glorifying mass shooters as martyrs, and was linked by a joint [[ProPublica]] and [[PBS FRONTLINE]] investigation to 35 attacks and plots internationally. The [[United Kingdom]] became the first country in the world to proscribe it as a terrorist organization on April 26, 2024; the [[United States]], [[Australia]], and [[Canada]] followed with formal designations in 2025. +[[Terrorgram Collective]] was an international accelerationist neo-Nazi network that coalesced on [[Telegram]] during the summer of 2019, co-founded by [[Pavol Beňadik]] of [[Slovakia]] and [[Matthew Althorpe]] of [[Canada]], in the immediate aftermath of [[Brenton Tarrant]]'s Christchurch mosque attacks. At its peak, the network operated through approximately 400 channels and 200 group chats, produced three major zine-format propaganda publications and a documentary-style video series, developed and distributed the "Saints Culture" framework glorifying mass shooters as martyrs, and was linked by a joint [[ProPublica]] and [[PBS FRONTLINE]] investigation to 35 attacks and plots internationally. The [[United Kingdom]] became the first country in the world to proscribe it as a terrorist organization on April 26, 2024; the [[United States]], [[Australia]], and Canada followed with formal designations in 2025. ### Formation and Origins @@ -61,9 +61,9 @@ Humber pleaded guilty to all 15 counts on August 8, 2025. U.S. District Judge [[ #### United States -[[Dallas Humber]] (Elk Grove, California, age 35 at sentencing): Case 2:24-cr-00257, E.D. Cal. Arrested September 5, 2024. Pleaded guilty to all 15 counts August 8, 2025. Sentenced December 19, 2025, to 360 months (30 years) plus lifetime supervised release by Judge Dena Coggins. No public cooperation agreement. +Dallas Humber (Elk Grove, California, age 35 at sentencing): Case 2:24-cr-00257, E.D. Cal. Arrested September 5, 2024. Pleaded guilty to all 15 counts August 8, 2025. Sentenced December 19, 2025, to 360 months (30 years) plus lifetime supervised release by Judge Dena Coggins. No public cooperation agreement. -[[Matthew Robert Allison]] (Boise, Idaho, age approximately 37 at arrest): Case 2:24-cr-00257, E.D. Cal. Arrested September 5, 2024. Pleaded not guilty. Trial pending as of May 2026. +Matthew Robert Allison (Boise, Idaho, age approximately 37 at arrest): Case 2:24-cr-00257, E.D. Cal. Arrested September 5, 2024. Pleaded not guilty. Trial pending as of May 2026. [[Noah Lamb]] (age 24 at indictment, Eastern District of California): Indicted June 26, 2025, unsealed July 2, 2025, on eight counts: conspiracy (1), soliciting murder of federal officials (3), doxing federal officials (3), threatening communications (1). Maximum exposure: 85 years. "The List" targeted U.S. senators, federal judges, a former attorney general, business leaders, journalists, and activists. Investigated by the [[FBI Sacramento Field Office]]. No plea or trial outcome as of May 2026. @@ -77,29 +77,29 @@ Humber pleaded guilty to all 15 counts on August 8, 2025. U.S. District Judge [[ #### Canada -[[Matthew Althorpe]] (Thorold, Ontario, age approximately 27 at arrest): Arrested December 8, 2023. Charged under the Criminal Code of Canada with facilitating terrorist activity, instructing others to carry out terrorist activity, and committing an indictable offense for a terrorist group (8 original counts reduced to 3 on guilty plea). Pleaded guilty in Toronto. Sentenced March 27, 2026, to 20 years by Ontario Superior Court Justice [[Jane Kelly]], parole-eligible at 10 years. Justice Kelly found his propaganda inspired at least six attacks. +Matthew Althorpe (Thorold, Ontario, age approximately 27 at arrest): Arrested December 8, 2023. Charged under the Criminal Code of Canada with facilitating terrorist activity, instructing others to carry out terrorist activity, and committing an indictable offense for a terrorist group (8 original counts reduced to 3 on guilty plea). Pleaded guilty in Toronto. Sentenced March 27, 2026, to 20 years by Ontario Superior Court Justice [[Jane Kelly]], parole-eligible at 10 years. Justice Kelly found his propaganda inspired at least six attacks. [[Kristopher Erik Nippak]] (East York, Ontario): Arrested December 8, 2023, alongside Althorpe following an 18-month RCMP investigation covering alleged offenses from April 2018 onward. Charged with one count of participation in the activities of a terrorist group. Bail denied twice; subsequently granted bail with conditions. Judge-alone trial in Toronto scheduled to begin January 2026. #### Denmark -[[Jeremy Meilhac]] (Copenhagen area, French-Danish national, born approximately 1995/1996): Charged by the [[Public Prosecution Service of Denmark]] with terrorism-related offenses under the Danish Penal Code for activities between approximately June 2023 and December 2024. Convicted by the [[Glostrup District Court]] on approximately April 21, 2026. Sentenced to six years in prison; Danish citizenship revoked; ordered expelled from Denmark following sentence. Found to have played an "active and significant role" in Terrorgram operations, collaborating with Humber to produce "saint cards" and distributing attacker manifesto audio recordings through the network. This was the first Danish court finding that Terrorgram constitutes a terrorist organization. Verdict appealed to the [[Danish High Court]]; outcome pending as of May 2026.[^13] +[[Jeremy Meilhac]] (Copenhagen area, French-Danish national, born approximately 1995/1996): Charged by the [[Public Prosecution Service of Denmark]] with terrorism-related offenses under the Danish Penal Code for activities between approximately June 2023 and December 2024. Convicted by the [[Glostrup District Court]] on approximately April 21, 2026. Sentenced to six years in prison; Danish citizenship revoked; ordered expelled from Denmark following sentence. Found to have played an "active and significant role" in Terrorgram operations, collaborating with Humber to produce "saint cards" and distributing attacker manifesto audio recordings through the network. This was the first Danish court finding that Terrorgram constitutes a terrorist organization. Verdict appealed to the [[Danish High Court]]; outcome pending as of May 2026.[^5] #### Slovakia -[[Pavol Beňadik]] (Slovakia, born approximately 2000): Arrested May 2022. Charged with inciting the overthrow of the democratic system and acts of terrorism, including publishing bomb-making and firearms-manufacture instructions and directly mentoring Juraj Krajčík. Sentenced to six years in a Slovak prison in November 2022. +Pavol Beňadik (Slovakia, born approximately 2000): Arrested May 2022. Charged with inciting the overthrow of the democratic system and acts of terrorism, including publishing bomb-making and firearms-manufacture instructions and directly mentoring Juraj Krajčík. Sentenced to six years in a Slovak prison in November 2022. #### International SDGT Designations (Not Criminal Charges) -Three individuals received U.S. Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) designations from the State Department on January 13, 2025, under Executive Order 13224: [[Ciro Daniel Amorim Ferreira]] (Brazil, Terrorgram channel administrator); [[Noah Licul]] (Croatia, senior Terrorgram member and former participant in [[Feuerkrieg Division]]-linked chats circa 2019-2020 under alias "buntovnik," where he described meeting with Croatian FKD cell members and claimed credit for vandalizing a WWII memorial); and [[Hendrik-Wahl Muller]] (South Africa, Terrorgram channel administrator).[^5][^6] +Three individuals received U.S. Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) designations from the State Department on January 13, 2025, under Executive Order 13224: [[Ciro Daniel Amorim Ferreira]] (Brazil, Terrorgram channel administrator); [[Noah Licul]] (Croatia, senior Terrorgram member and former participant in [[Feuerkrieg Division]]-linked chats circa 2019-2020 under alias "buntovnik," where he described meeting with Croatian FKD cell members and claimed credit for vandalizing a WWII memorial); and [[Hendrik-Wahl Muller]] (South Africa, Terrorgram channel administrator).[^6][^7] ### Attributed Violence A joint ProPublica and PBS FRONTLINE investigation published in 2025 identified 35 crimes linked to the Terrorgram network. DOJ prosecutors linked Humber specifically to seven attacks or plots "inspired or guided by" her leadership. -The Bratislava attack of October 12, 2022: [[Juraj Krajčík]] (19) shot three people at Tepláreň, an LGBTQ+ bar, killing two and wounding one, then died by suicide. Krajčík had been radicalized through Terrorgram from age 16, directly mentored by Beňadik, and cited him by alias in his manifesto; he also cited the [[Payton Gendron|Buffalo supermarket shooter]] as his "final nudge."[^7] +The Bratislava attack of October 12, 2022: Juraj Krajčík (19) shot three people at Tepláreň, an LGBTQ+ bar, killing two and wounding one, then died by suicide. Krajčík had been radicalized through Terrorgram from age 16, directly mentored by Beňadik, and cited him by alias in his manifesto; he also cited the [[Payton Gendron|Buffalo supermarket shooter]] as his "final nudge."[^8] -The Aracruz school shootings of November 25, 2022: Gabriel Castiglioni (16) attacked two schools in [[Aracruz, Brazil]], killing four and wounding eleven while wearing a swastika patch. Humber had communicated with a user planning a racially motivated school attack in Brazil one month prior. +The [[2022 Aracruz School Shootings]] of November 25, 2022: [[Gabriel Rodrigues Castiglioni]] (16) attacked two schools in Aracruz, Brazil, killing four and wounding twelve while wearing a swastika armband. The government's sentencing memorandum against Humber lists "G.C." among people who plotted or committed attacks "inspired and guided by her leadership," and Raw Story reported a government filing describing her October 23, 2022 statement that she had direct messages with a Terrorgram user planning a racially motivated school shooting.[^9][^10] The Eskisehir mosque stabbing of August 12, 2024: [[Arda Küçükyetim]] (18) livestreamed himself stabbing five civilians outside a mosque in [[Eskisehir, Turkey]], possessing all three Terrorgram publications and a 16-page manifesto bearing Nazi symbols. @@ -107,27 +107,27 @@ Nashville energy substation drone plot, November 2024: Skyler Philippi attempted Wisconsin murder-for-hire plot: An unnamed Wisconsin plot to murder two individuals as part of a broader scheme to assassinate a federal official was among seven attacks attributed to Humber's guidance. -Waukesha parricidal attack, February 2025: Nikita Casap murdered his mother and stepfather to fund a planned Trump assassination plot, leaving a manifesto recommending Terrorgram publications including *The Hard Reset*.[^8] +Waukesha parricidal attack, February 2025: Nikita Casap murdered his mother and stepfather to fund a planned Trump assassination plot, leaving a manifesto recommending Terrorgram publications including *The Hard Reset*.[^11] ### Wisconsin Murder-for-Hire Plot: Full Identification -The "Wisconsin murder-for-hire plot" referenced in Humber's indictment and in DOJ press releases was identified in the factual basis of Humber's August 2025 guilty plea as the February 2025 murders of Tatiana Casap and Donald Mayer by Nikita Casap ("N.C."), committed "in furtherance of his plot to assassinate a federal official" (Trump). The designation "federal official" in the plea's language reflects 18 U.S.C. § 1114 framing; Trump as president-elect and then president qualifies. The DOJ framing of these murders as one of seven attacks "inspired or guided by" Humber's leadership represents the full scope of prosecutorial attribution available in the public record as of May 2026.[^14] +The "Wisconsin murder-for-hire plot" referenced in Humber's indictment and in DOJ press releases was identified in the factual basis of Humber's August 2025 guilty plea as the February 2025 murders of Tatiana Casap and Donald Mayer by Nikita Casap ("N.C."), committed "in furtherance of his plot to assassinate a federal official" (Trump). The designation "federal official" in the plea's language reflects 18 U.S.C. § 1114 framing; Trump as president-elect and then president qualifies. The DOJ framing of these murders as one of seven attacks "inspired or guided by" Humber's leadership represents the full scope of prosecutorial attribution available in the public record as of May 2026.[^12] ### Europol Coordination -[[Europol]]'s [[European Counter Terrorism Centre]] (ECTC) supported investigations in both the Canadian (Althorpe/Nippak) and Danish (Meilhac) proceedings. Its May 1, 2026 press release on Meilhac's conviction described its supporting role across multiple national investigations and noted that "over two dozen Terrorgram cases around the world" had been identified as of that date.[^13] +[[Europol]]'s [[European Counter Terrorism Centre]] (ECTC) supported investigations in both the Canadian (Althorpe/Nippak) and Danish (Meilhac) proceedings. Its May 1, 2026 press release on Meilhac's conviction described its supporting role across multiple national investigations and noted that "over two dozen Terrorgram cases around the world" had been identified as of that date.[^5] ### AWD and O9A Connection -The Terrorgram Collective's genealogical connection to Atomwaffen Division and the [[Order of Nine Angles]] runs through both personnel and doctrine. Althorpe had served as an AWD propagandist before joining Terrorgram's founding efforts. Nippak had produced AWD videos before creating Terrorgram content. Brandon Russell used multiple Terrorgram pseudonyms to distribute accelerationist content from prison. [[Taylor Parker-Dipeppe]], who briefly took over some FKD organizational functions following KAPO's 2020 intervention with FKD's teenage Commander, was also documented in the AWD-to-Terrorgram ecosystem. +The Terrorgram Collective's genealogical connection to Atomwaffen Division and the Order of Nine Angles runs through both personnel and doctrine. Althorpe had served as an AWD propagandist before joining Terrorgram's founding efforts. Nippak had produced AWD videos before creating Terrorgram content. Brandon Russell used multiple Terrorgram pseudonyms to distribute accelerationist content from prison. [[Taylor Parker-Dipeppe]], who briefly took over some FKD organizational functions following KAPO's 2020 intervention with FKD's teenage Commander, was also documented in the AWD-to-Terrorgram ecosystem. -[[Joshua Caleb Sutter]] and [[Tempel ov Blood]]'s 2017 infiltration of AWD carried O9A ideology (treating murder as spiritual service, transgressive violence as initiatory progression) into the broader accelerationist space. [[Martinet Press]] O9A texts including *[[Iron Gates]]* circulated through Terrorgram channels reaching audiences with no prior direct AWD or O9A connection.[^9] +[[Joshua Caleb Sutter]] and [[Tempel ov Blood]]'s 2017 infiltration of AWD carried O9A ideology (treating murder as spiritual service, transgressive violence as initiatory progression) into the broader accelerationist space. [[Martinet Press]] O9A texts including *[[Iron Gates]]* circulated through Terrorgram channels reaching audiences with no prior direct AWD or O9A connection.[^13] ### FKD/InJekt Division Bridge -When [[Feuerkrieg Division]] reemerged on Telegram in May 2021, a co-leader established himself as a central figure in the Terrorgram community and as a core organizer of two coalition structures: the [[United Acceleration Front]] and the [[National Socialist Coalition]]. FKD partnered specifically with [[InJekt Division]], a Texas-based group founded by [[Coleman Thomas Blevins]] (arrested May 2021 for a Walmart mass-shooting threat, sentenced to 60 months). The [[Middlebury Institute CTEC]] and [[Tech Against Terrorism]] documented 21 distinct entities within this coalition network, all operating through Terrorgram channels, establishing the infrastructure link between the FKD era and the 764/CVLT era.[^10] +When Feuerkrieg Division reemerged on Telegram in May 2021, a co-leader established himself as a central figure in the Terrorgram community and as a core organizer of two coalition structures: the [[United Acceleration Front]] and the [[National Socialist Coalition]]. FKD partnered specifically with [[InJekt Division]], a Texas-based group founded by [[Coleman Thomas Blevins]] (arrested May 2021 for a Walmart mass-shooting threat, sentenced to 60 months). The [[Middlebury Institute CTEC]] and [[Tech Against Terrorism]] documented 21 distinct entities within this coalition network, all operating through Terrorgram channels, establishing the infrastructure link between the FKD era and the 764/CVLT era.[^14] -[[Noah Licul]], one of the three individuals receiving SDGT designations alongside Terrorgram in January 2025, had been previously identified as active in FKD-linked chats in Croatia circa 2019-2020, representing a documented named individual who participated in both FKD-adjacent networks and subsequently Terrorgram. +Noah Licul, one of the three individuals receiving SDGT designations alongside Terrorgram in January 2025, had been previously identified as active in FKD-linked chats in Croatia circa 2019-2020, representing a documented named individual who participated in both FKD-adjacent networks and subsequently Terrorgram. ### Formal Designations @@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ United States: SDGT designation of Terrorgram Collective and three individuals ( Australia: Counter-terrorism financing sanctions imposed by the Minister for Foreign Affairs under section 15 of the Charter of the United Nations Act 1945 in February 2025, making Terrorgram the first entirely online entity subjected to Australian CT financing sanctions. Formally listed as a terrorist organization under Division 102 of the Criminal Code Act 1995 via Criminal Code (Terrorist Organisation, Terrorgram) Regulations 2025, F2025L00762. Penalties up to 25 years imprisonment. -Canada: Listed as a terrorist entity under the Criminal Code via Regulations Amending the Regulations Establishing a List of Entities, SOR/2025-263, published in the Canada Gazette, Part 2, Vol. 159, No. 26, December 17, 2025. Order in Council P.C. 2025-914, December 8, 2025. Listed alongside [[764 Network|764]], [[Maniac Murder Cult]], and Islamic State-Mozambique.[^11] +Canada: Listed as a terrorist entity under the Criminal Code via Regulations Amending the Regulations Establishing a List of Entities, SOR/2025-263, published in the Canada Gazette, Part 2, Vol. 159, No. 26, December 17, 2025. Order in Council P.C. 2025-914, December 8, 2025. Listed alongside [[764 Network|764]], [[Maniac Murder Cult]], and Islamic State-Mozambique.[^15] ### Status After Arrests @@ -145,11 +145,11 @@ The Terrorgram Collective's inner organizational core was effectively dismantled Violence attributed to Terrorgram-inspired individuals continued post-arrests. The network's content, once released, proved impossible to fully remove from the accelerationist ecosystem. -[[FashFront]], a neo-Nazi web forum launched in mid-2025 at fashfront.st, emerged as the most developed successor infrastructure. It modeled itself on [[Iron March]]'s forum architecture while maintaining a companion [[Telegram]] channel and [[Odysee]] video distribution. With 941 registered users as of late 2025, including former Iron March members and at least one identified former AWD cell leader ([[Ryan Hatfield]], alias "Ryan Arthur"), FashFront represented the most significant consolidation of post-Terrorgram accelerationist organizing infrastructure as of May 2026. No law enforcement action against FashFront or its administrators has been publicly announced.[^12][^15] +[[FashFront]], a neo-Nazi web forum launched in mid-2025 at fashfront.st, emerged as the most developed successor infrastructure. It modeled itself on Iron March's forum architecture while maintaining a companion Telegram channel and [[Odysee]] video distribution. With 941 registered users as of late 2025, including former Iron March members and at least one identified former AWD cell leader ([[Ryan Hatfield]], alias "Ryan Arthur"), FashFront represented the most significant consolidation of post-Terrorgram accelerationist organizing infrastructure as of May 2026. No law enforcement action against FashFront or its administrators has been publicly announced.[^16][^17] ### Platform Migration After the September 2024 Indictment Unsealing -The unsealing of the Terrorgram indictment on September 9, 2024, combined with the August 24, 2024 arrest of [[Pavel Durov|Telegram CEO Pavel Durov]] and Telegram's resulting announcement of law-enforcement cooperation, produced a documented migration wave. The [[Counter Extremism Project]] documented white supremacist Telegram channels immediately discussing the need for alternative platforms with better encryption. The [[Institute for Strategic Dialogue]] monitored a large number of neo-Nazi accelerationist groups migrating to a new decentralized, encrypted platform (which ISD declined to name); within 24 hours of ISD's September 25, 2024 monitoring period, users in those channels had posted calls for three political assassinations and multiple race-war declarations.[^16] +The unsealing of the Terrorgram indictment on September 9, 2024, combined with the August 24, 2024 arrest of [[Pavel Durov|Telegram CEO Pavel Durov]] and Telegram's resulting announcement of law-enforcement cooperation, produced a documented migration wave. The [[Counter Extremism Project]] documented white supremacist Telegram channels immediately discussing the need for alternative platforms with better encryption. The Institute for Strategic Dialogue monitored a large number of neo-Nazi accelerationist groups migrating to a new decentralized, encrypted platform (which ISD declined to name); within 24 hours of ISD's September 25, 2024 monitoring period, users in those channels had posted calls for three political assassinations and multiple race-war declarations.[^18] ### Footnotes @@ -157,15 +157,17 @@ The unsealing of the Terrorgram indictment on September 9, 2024, combined with t [^2]: ARC Research. "Terrorgram's Propaganda: An Overview of Publications Designed to Incite Accelerationist Terrorism Attacks." https://www.accresearch.org/accreports/terrorgrams-propaganda-an-overview-of-publications-designed-to-incite-accelerationist-terrorism-attacks; GNET. "Analysing Terrorgram Publications." September 12, 2022. https://gnet-research.org/2022/09/12/analysing-terrorgram-publications-a-new-digital-zine/ [^3]: ARC Research. 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Cal.), ECF 90, "Formal PSR Objections and Sentencing Memorandum" by the United States, November 26, 2025. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.caed.452335/gov.uscourts.caed.452335.90.0.pdf +[^10]: "Terrorgram: Exporting Terrorism" (Raw Investigates), Raw Story, March 7, 2025. https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/terrorgram-terrorism/ +[^11]: ProPublica / PBS FRONTLINE. "After Downfall, Terrorgram Still Inspires Violence." April 18, 2025. https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-assassionation-plot-nikita-casap-terrorgram-wisconsin-frontline; DOJ OPA. "Man Pleads Guilty to Attempting to Use a Weapon of Mass Destruction and Attempting to Destroy an Energy Facility in Nashville." September 9, 2025. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/man-pleads-guilty-attempting-use-weapon-mass-destruction-and-attempting-destroy-energy +[^12]: U.S. Department of Justice, OPA. "Leader of Transnational Terrorist Group Pleads Guilty." 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"New Neo-Nazi Web Forum 'Fash Front' Reinvigorating Violent Accelerationist Movement." 2025. https://globalextremism.org/post/fash-front/ +[^18]: ISD Global. "Neo-Nazi accelerationists seek new digital refuge amid looming Telegram crackdown." September 2024. https://www.isdglobal.org/digital-dispatch/neo-nazi-accelerationists-seek-new-digital-refuge-amid-looming-telegram-crackdown/; Counter Extremism Project. "Extremist Content Online: White Supremacist Telegram Channels Identify Need for Alternative Platform After State Department's Terrorgram Collective Designation." 2025. https://www.counterextremism.com/press/extremist-content-online-white-supremacist-telegram-channels-identify-need-alternative diff --git a/40 - EVENTS/2022 Aracruz School Shootings.md b/40 - EVENTS/2022 Aracruz School Shootings.md index 9717f89e..87a8c64c 100644 --- a/40 - EVENTS/2022 Aracruz School Shootings.md +++ b/40 - EVENTS/2022 Aracruz School Shootings.md @@ -11,60 +11,79 @@ tags: date: 2022-11-25 location: "Aracruz, Espírito Santo, Brazil" created: 2026-05-21 -updated: 2026-05-22 -summary: "On November 25, 2022, 16-year-old Gabriel Rodrigues Castiglioni attacked two schools in Aracruz, Brazil wearing AWD-associated symbols, killing four and wounding eleven in an attack attributed to Terrorgram Collective mentorship under Dallas Humber." +updated: 2026-10-05 +summary: "On November 25, 2022, 16-year-old Gabriel Rodrigues Castiglioni shot people at two Aracruz, Brazil schools wearing a swastika armband, killing four and wounding twelve; U.S. prosecutors list the attack among those guided by Dallas Humber." +relations: + - type: participant_in + with: "[[Gabriel Rodrigues Castiglioni]]" + reverse: true + start: 2022-11-25 + role: "Perpetrator" + fn: 1 --- -On November 25, 2022, [[Gabriel Rodrigues Castiglioni]] (16) attacked two schools in [[Aracruz, Espírito Santo]], Brazil, killing four people and wounding eleven. He attacked [[Escola Estadual Primo Bitti]] first and then [[Escola Praia de Coqueiral]], wearing military-style camouflage, a bulletproof vest, a skull mask associated with [[Atomwaffen Division]], and a homemade swastika armband. The attack was attributed in the prosecution of [[Terrorgram Collective]] leader [[Dallas Humber]] to her guidance: approximately one month before the attack, Humber and co-leader [[Matthew Robert Allison]] discussed a Brazilian contact planning "a racially motivated school attack in Brazil" in a secret Telegram chat, and Humber subsequently created Terrorgram "saint cards" for Castiglioni, characterizing him as "her kid." The Aracruz shootings are listed as the most lethal Terrorgram-attributed attack in Humber's sentencing documents and as one of the attacks [[Matthew Althorpe]]'s publications helped inspire in his Canadian sentencing (March 27, 2026).[^1] +On November 25, 2022, [[Gabriel Rodrigues Castiglioni]], 16, attacked the [[Escola Estadual Primo Bitti]] and then the [[Centro Educacional Praia de Coqueiral]] in the Coqueiral district of [[Aracruz, Espírito Santo]], [[Brazil]], with a .40 pistol issued to his father by the [[Polícia Militar do Espírito Santo]] and a .38 revolver his father had bought privately. Three teachers and a 12-year-old student were killed and twelve people were wounded.[^1][^2] He wore camouflage clothing, a hat, a vest and a mask, with a swastika armband that Governor [[Renato Casagrande]] confirmed as a Nazi symbol; [[Agência Brasil]] described the mask as a skeleton face similar to the one worn in photographs by one of the perpetrators of the 2019 [[Suzano school shooting]].[^3] The government's sentencing memorandum against [[Terrorgram Collective]] leader [[Dallas Humber]] lists "G.C." among seven people who plotted or committed attacks "inspired and guided by her leadership."[^4] ### The Attacks -Castiglioni struck Escola Estadual Primo Bitti first during school hours on November 25, 2022. The four people killed were: [[Selena Zagrillo]] (12), a student who was shot while hiding under a desk; [[Maria da Penha Pereira de Melo Banhos]] (48), a teacher who was attempting to shield students; [[Cybelle Passos Bezerra Lara]] (45); and [[Flavia Amoss Merçon Leonardo]] (38). Eleven additional people were wounded across both school sites. Castiglioni was apprehended at or near the scene. +According to the reconstruction given by police delegate [[André Jaretta]] on November 28, 2022, the teenager took the family car with its license plate covered while his parents were shopping, entered Primo Bitti, a school he had attended until June 2022, by a rear gate whose padlock he cut, and fired into the teachers' room, reloading once. He then drove to the Centro Educacional Praia de Coqueiral, a private school, and fired a revolver at students in the entrance hall and through a window into an upper-floor classroom, before returning home and putting away the clothing and weapons.[^5] The attack began at about 9:30 in the morning.[^3] He was apprehended at about 2:10 in the afternoon at a family beach house, the [[Polícia Civil do Espírito Santo]] said.[^6] -### Terrorgram Attribution +The dead were the teachers [[Maria da Penha Pereira de Melo Banhos]] (48) and [[Cybelle Passos Bezerra Lara]] (45), killed at Primo Bitti; the teacher [[Flávia Amboss Merçon Leonardo]], who died in hospital on November 26 (outlets give her age as 36 and 38); and [[Selena Sagrillo Zuccolotto]], 12, a sixth-grader at the private school.[^1][^7] Police charged him with acts analogous to qualified homicide and attempted homicide; he confessed after being shown surveillance footage.[^5][^8] -The DOJ's case against Humber established the specific mechanism of Terrorgram's involvement. Court documents confirmed that in a secret Telegram channel on approximately October 23, 2022, Humber and Allison discussed a Brazilian contact's planned attack. The one-month gap between that conversation and the Aracruz shootings aligns with the attack date, and prosecutors attributed the event to Humber's guidance. Humber's post-attack creation of saint cards for Castiglioni - and her affectionate description of him as "her kid" - confirmed the relationship was not purely passive circulation of ideology but active mentorship of the kind Humber had also maintained with the [[Juraj Krajčík|Bratislava]] and other attackers. +### Terrorgram and the United States Record -This attribution placed the Aracruz attack within Terrorgram's documented operational pattern: the network maintained direct contact with individuals planning attacks, produced saint cards celebrating completed attacks, and used those cards to inspire the next attack.[^2] +The government's sentencing memorandum in [[United States v. Humber]] (November 26, 2025) lists "G.C. shot eleven people, killing four, at two schools in Aracruz, Brazil" among attacks "inspired and guided by her leadership," and says it would file under seal the "Saint cards" Humber created to commemorate the shootings by J.K. ([[Juraj Krajčík]], Bratislava) and G.C., "whom she considers 'symbolically [her] kids.'"[^4] [[Raw Story]] reported in March 2025 that a government filing opposing bail for [[Matthew Robert Allison]] described a secret chat of October 23, 2022 in which Humber told Allison she "had direct messages with a Terrorgram user who was planning to commit a racially motivated school shooting," with details matching the Aracruz attack a month later.[^9] -### Prosecutions and Sentences +[[ProPublica]] and [[FRONTLINE]] reported that after the attack Humber posted to a Terrorgram channel a ZIP file of information on it, including 17 photographs and four videos, said the massacre was motivated by "Hatred of non-Whites," and wrote that the assailant would get a "SLAP ON THE WRIST" sentence because of his age; they called it the most deadly known crime stemming from Terrorgram.[^10] At Humber's sentencing on December 17, 2025, prosecutor [[Christopher J. Perras]] told the court she "was responsible for inciting" the Bratislava shooting, a stabbing outside a mosque in Turkey "and a school shooting in Aracruz, Brazil that left teachers and children dead." She was sentenced to 360 months.[^11][^12] -Brazilian courts sentenced Castiglioni to three years in juvenile detention in December 2022. He was released on supervised release by November 2025. No additional proceedings were reported following his completion of the sentence. +The researcher [[Michele Prado]] told Raw Story that a Terrorgram pseudonym, "Wolf Boy Winter," contributed pages to the Terrorgram zine [[The Hard Reset]] and interacted with Brazilian adolescents.[^9] -Humber was sentenced to 30 years in U.S. federal prison on December 19, 2025, with the Aracruz attack explicitly listed as one of seven attacks or plots linked to her leadership. Althorpe received 20 years in Canadian federal prison on March 27, 2026, with the attack similarly cited in his agreed statement of facts.[^1] +### Brazilian Proceedings -### Terrorgram Propagation +On December 7, 2022, Judge [[Felipe Leitão]] of the Vara da Infância e Juventude de Aracruz imposed the socio-educational measure of internment for up to three years, the maximum under the [[Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente]], with psychiatric follow-up.[^13] He left internment in late November 2025; the [[Tribunal de Justiça do Espírito Santo]] told [[A Gazeta]] on December 2, 2025 that he continues under assisted liberty, and the [[Ministério Público do Espírito Santo]] said Brazilian law does not allow him to be held responsible again as an adult.[^1] -On approximately November 27, 2022, two days after the attack, an unidentified [[Terrorgram Collective]] member using the pseudonym "Wolf Boy Winter" posted a video still from Escola Estadual Primo Bitti attack surveillance footage to a high-traffic Terrorgram channel. The same individual contributed multiple pages to "[[The Hard Reset]]," one of the network's primary propaganda publications, which the [[US Department of Justice]] later cited in the indictment of Dallas Humber and Matthew Robert Allison as a document created as part of a conspiracy to "recruit, radicalize, equip, advise, inspire and solicit others to commit attacks." In this way the Aracruz attack was immediately incorporated into Terrorgram's saint-documentation and propaganda pipeline, with attack footage transformed into promotional content within 48 hours.[^3] +The Polícia Militar opened a disciplinary procedure against his father, a lieutenant, on November 28, 2022, over how the son obtained the two weapons.[^5] In June 2025 victims and relatives circulated a petition stating that the father had "until today not been punished and has not even been located to be officially cited in the process."[^14] The state government compensated only those hurt at the state school Primo Bitti, under a 2023 plan modeled on São Paulo's after Suzano.[^15] ### Brazilian Investigative Response -The [[Espírito Santo]] federal court was the first Brazilian institution to take direct legal action against the platform infrastructure. On April 26, 2023, Federal Judge [[Wellington Lopes da Silva]] of Espírito Santo ordered a nationwide suspension of [[Telegram]] after the platform failed to provide authorities with subscriber data from two neo-Nazi channels: the "Brazilian Anti-Semitic Movement" (Movimento Antissemitico Brasileiro) and the "Anti-Semitic Front" (Frente Antissemitica). Both channels had been recovered from the phone of the Aracruz perpetrator or a subsequent school-attack suspect, and contained what prosecutors described as murder tutorials, bomb-manufacturing instructions, and violent videos in addition to Nazi content. Judge da Silva ordered Google and Apple to remove Telegram from their app stores and directed mobile carriers to block access; Telegram was simultaneously fined approximately R$1 million (approximately US$198,000) per day until it complied. The suspension was lifted on April 28, 2023, after Telegram provided partial data.[^4] +The [[Polícia Federal]] found two antisemitic [[Telegram]] groups, "Movimento Anti-Semita Brasileiro" and "Frente Anti-Semita," on the phone seized from the teenager; PF delegate [[Leopoldo Soares Lacerda]] wrote that the minor "was inspired by the material shared on the application to commit the act of violent extremism."[^16][^17] Justice Minister [[Flávio Dino]] had ordered a PF inquiry into neo-Nazi organizations on April 5, 2023. The PF asked the federal court in Linhares on April 14, 2023 to break the groups' data; Telegram supplied administrator data for one channel and said the other had been deleted. On April 26, 2023, Federal Judge [[Wellington Lopes da Silva]] found the compliance partial, raised the daily fine to R$1 million and ordered Telegram suspended nationwide, directing [[Google]] and [[Apple]] to remove it from their app stores.[^17][^18] The suspension was lifted on April 28, 2023.[^19] + +On June 2, 2023 the PF executed search warrants in São Paulo and Petrolina, Pernambuco, in Operação Bedel, against two members of the group, investigated for corrupting a minor by inducing him to commit qualified homicide and an offense under the Anti-Terrorism Law; the PF wrote that "the use of the swastika on the minor's clothing at the time of the attack demonstrates the influence of Nazi ideology received from the application group."[^20] ### Michele Prado and ABIN Reporting -In 2023, [[Michele Prado]], founder of the Brazilian NGO [[Stop Hate Brasil]], submitted a formal report to [[ABIN]] (Agência Brasileira de Inteligência) and the [[Ministry of Justice and Public Security]] identifying Telegram channels linked to Terrorgram members operating in Brazil, including a channel associated with the "Wolf Boy Winter" pseudonym. Prado had been monitoring Terrorgram's Brazilian operations since at least 2022 and by 2023 documented more than 40 school-related violent incidents with some connection to online extremist networks over a three-year span. At least two of the Terrorgram-affiliated groups she identified had been created by adolescents.[^5] +In 2023, Prado, founder of the Brazilian NGO [[Stop Hate Brasil]], submitted a report to the [[Agência Brasileira de Inteligência]] (ABIN) and the [[Ministry of Justice and Public Security]] identifying Telegram channels linked to Terrorgram members operating in Brazil, including a channel associated with the "Wolf Boy Winter" pseudonym. Prado had been monitoring Terrorgram's Brazilian operations since at least 2022 and by 2023 documented more than 40 school-related violent incidents with some connection to online extremist networks over a three-year span. At least two of the Terrorgram-affiliated groups she identified had been created by adolescents.[^21] ### Federal Police Statistics -The Federal Police (Polícia Federal) recorded a 279% increase in investigations of Nazi propaganda on social media platforms from 2022 to 2023, making 2023 the highest year on record for such inquiries. A broader government accounting reported 2,830 ongoing investigations into school violence by June 2023, with over 380 arrests by that date. A GNET analysis published in November 2024 documented 177 Federal Police investigations into Nazi propaganda on social media platforms between January 2021 and February 2024, with 82 still ongoing at that date.[^5][^6] +The Polícia Federal recorded a 279% increase in investigations of Nazi propaganda on social media platforms from 2022 to 2023, making 2023 the highest year on record for such inquiries. A broader government accounting reported 2,830 ongoing investigations into school violence by June 2023, with over 380 arrests by that date. A [[Global Network on Extremism and Technology]] analysis published in November 2024 documented 177 Federal Police investigations into Nazi propaganda on social media platforms between January 2021 and February 2024, with 82 still ongoing at that date.[^21][^22] ### Ciro Daniel Amorim Ferreira -On January 13, 2025, the US State Department designated [[Ciro Daniel Amorim Ferreira]] of Belo Horizonte, [[Minas Gerais]], as a [[Specially Designated Global Terrorist]] in connection with his role as a Terrorgram channel administrator. Ferreira is the only Brazilian national publicly designated in connection with the Terrorgram Collective. The designation did not specifically allege direct contact between Ferreira and Castiglioni; the direct contact with the Aracruz perpetrator was documented through the Humber prosecution rather than through the Ferreira designation. The US government's naming of a Brazilian administrator confirms that the Terrorgram network had established domestic Brazilian infrastructure, not merely international reach into Brazil.[^7] +On January 13, 2025, the [[United States Department of State]] designated [[Ciro Daniel Amorim Ferreira]] of Belo Horizonte, [[Minas Gerais]], as a [[Specially Designated Global Terrorist]] in connection with his role as a Terrorgram channel administrator.[^23] ### Footnotes -[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice, OPA. "Leader of Transnational Terrorist Group Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison." December 19, 2025. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/leader-transnational-terrorist-group-sentenced-30-years-prison-soliciting-hate-crimes-and; Public Prosecution Service of Canada. "PPSC Sentencing Announcement, Matthew Althorpe." March 27, 2026. https://www.ppsc.gc.ca/eng/nws-nvs/2026/27_03_26.html - -[^2]: Raw Story. "Terrorgram: Exporting Terrorism." https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/terrorgram-terrorism/ - -[^3]: Raw Story. "'The Hard Reset': Here's how the U.S. is exporting terrorism around the world." https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/terrorgram-terrorism/; ProPublica/FRONTLINE. "The Rise and Fall of Terrorgram: Inside a Global Online Hate Network." https://www.propublica.org/article/rise-and-fall-terrorgram-inside-global-online-hate-network-frontline-telegram - -[^4]: France 24. "Brazil court suspends Telegram app in neo-Nazi probe," April 26, 2023. https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230426-brazil-court-suspends-telegram-app-in-neo-nazi-probe; TechTimes. "Brazilian Court Orders Temporary Suspension for Telegram Over Neo-Nazi Groups," April 26, 2023. https://www.techtimes.com/articles/290845/20230426/brazilian-court-orders-temporary-suspension-telegram-over-neo-nazi-groups.htm - -[^5]: GNET. "Terrorgram and Youth Radicalisation: Understanding Brazil's Online Extremist Landscape," November 22, 2024. https://gnet-research.org/2024/11/22/terrorgram-and-youth-radicalisation-understanding-brazils-online-extremist-landscape/ - -[^6]: Rest of World (Matheus Andrade). "Research links school shootings with extremist online culture, gaming, and memes," 2023. https://restofworld.org/2023/online-extremism-linked-school-shootings-brazil/ - -[^7]: US Department of State. "Terrorist Designations of The Terrorgram Collective and Three Leaders," January 13, 2025. https://2021-2025.state.gov/office-of-the-spokesperson/releases/2025/01/terrorist-designations-of-the-terrorgram-collective-and-three-leaders/; Federal Register Vol. 90, No. 10, Document 2025-00756, January 15, 2025. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/15/2025-00756/specially-designated-global-terrorist-designations-of-the-terrorgram-collective-ciro-daniel-amorim +[^1]: Júlia Afonso, "Atirador em ataques a escolas de Aracruz é solto após três anos," A Gazeta, December 2, 2025. https://www.agazeta.com.br/es/policia/atirador-em-ataques-a-escolas-de-aracruz-e-solto-apos-tres-anos-1225 +[^2]: "Autor de ataques em escolas de Aracruz é filho de PM e tinha suástica na roupa," O Tempo, November 25, 2022. https://www.otempo.com.br/brasil/autor-de-ataques-em-escolas-de-aracruz-e-filho-de-pm-e-tinha-suastica-na-roupa-1.2772415 +[^3]: Léo Rodrigues, "ES: adolescente usa arma do pai e símbolo nazista em ataque a escolas," Agência Brasil, November 25, 2022. https://agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br/geral/noticia/2022-11/es-adolescente-usa-arma-do-pai-e-simbolo-nazista-em-ataque-escolas +[^4]: United States v. Humber, No. 2:24-cr-00257 (E.D. 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Humber.md b/40 - EVENTS/United States v. Humber.md index 917bc0bd..13ef4249 100644 --- a/40 - EVENTS/United States v. Humber.md +++ b/40 - EVENTS/United States v. Humber.md @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ tags: - USA - MaterialSupport - DomesticTerrorism -summary: "United States v. Humber (2:24-cr-00257, E.D. Cal.) is the primary U.S. federal prosecution of the Terrorgram Collective's inner leadership, charging Dallas Humber and Matthew Robert Allison on 15 counts including conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists under 18 U.S.C. 2339A, resulting in Humber's 30-year sentence in December 2025." +summary: "United States v. Humber (2:24-cr-00257, E.D. Cal.) prosecuted Terrorgram Collective leaders Dallas Humber and Matthew Robert Allison on 15 counts including material support to terrorists, ending in Humber's 30-year sentence in December 2025." created: 2026-05-22 updated: 2026-05-22 --- @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ At the time of the indictment, Terrorgram Collective was not designated as an FT ### Evidence Cited -The indictment and DOJ press releases identified specific evidentiary items: Humber's December 2022 post of electrical substation transformer images captioned "for educational purposes only of course"; her January 2023 post praising the Randolph County, [[EnergyUnited]] substation shooting as evidence that Terrorgram's "hard work in detailing its effectiveness" had "encouraged" the attack; her October 2022 communications with a [[Telegram]] user planning a Brazil school shooting one month before the [[Aracruz school shootings|Aracruz attack]]; her continued contact from pretrial detention; all three Terrorgram publications (*Militant Accelerationism*, *Do It For The Gram*, *The Hard Reset*); and the "White Terror" video series produced by Allison featuring 105 far-right killers.[^4] +The indictment and DOJ press releases identified specific evidentiary items: Humber's December 2022 post of electrical substation transformer images captioned "for educational purposes only of course"; her January 2023 post praising the Randolph County, [[EnergyUnited]] substation shooting as evidence that Terrorgram's "hard work in detailing its effectiveness" had "encouraged" the attack; her October 2022 statement that she had direct messages with a [[Telegram]] user planning a school shooting, one month before the [[2022 Aracruz School Shootings|Aracruz attack]] (described in a government filing opposing Allison's bail, as reported by Raw Story);[^4] her continued contact from pretrial detention; all three Terrorgram publications (*Militant Accelerationism*, *Do It For The Gram*, *The Hard Reset*); and the "White Terror" video series produced by Allison featuring 105 far-right killers.[^5] ### Outcomes @@ -52,4 +52,5 @@ DOJ linked the case to a separately prosecuted Wisconsin murder-for-hire plot ta [^1]: CourtListener. United States v. Humber, 2:24-cr-00257 (E.D. Cal.). https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69144957/united-states-v-humber/; DocumentCloud. Humber-Allison Indictment. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25598913-humber-allison-indictment/ [^2]: U.S. Department of Justice, OPA. "Leaders of Transnational Terrorist Group Charged." September 9, 2024. https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/leaders-transnational-terrorist-group-charged-soliciting-hate-crimes-soliciting-murder; DOJ OPA. "Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke Delivers Remarks Announcing Charges Against Leaders of Transnational Terrorist Group." September 9, 2024. https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/speech/assistant-attorney-general-kristen-clarke-delivers-remarks-announcing-charges-against [^3]: Lawfare. "Why the Terrorgram Collective Designation Matters." January 2025. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/why-the-terrorgram-collective-designation-matters -[^4]: Fox 8. "'Terrorgram' leaders Dallas Humber, Matthew Allison referenced North Carolina EnergyUnited substation shooting, court documents show." https://myfox8.com/news/storylines/power-grid-attack/indicted-terrorgram-neo-nazi-cited-randolph-county-substation-attack-court-documents-show-this-avenue-of-attack-has-really-caught-on/ +[^4]: "Terrorgram: Exporting Terrorism" (Raw Investigates), Raw Story, March 7, 2025. https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/terrorgram-terrorism/ +[^5]: Fox 8. "'Terrorgram' leaders Dallas Humber, Matthew Allison referenced North Carolina EnergyUnited substation shooting, court documents show." https://myfox8.com/news/storylines/power-grid-attack/indicted-terrorgram-neo-nazi-cited-randolph-county-substation-attack-court-documents-show-this-avenue-of-attack-has-really-caught-on/