The US Department of Justice announced Thursday that a Jordanian citizen living in Orlando, Florida, was charged with threatening to use explosives and sabotage an energy facility, after threats were made against him companies for claiming to have supported Israel.
The Ministry of Justice said in report According to her, Hashem Younis Hashem Hanihan (43 years old), who was ordered detained pending trial, was charged with 4 counts of threatening to use explosives and one count of damage to an energy resource.
US Attorney General Merrick Garland said in the statement, “We believe that the accused threatened to commit acts of mass violence based on hatred in our country, motivated, among other things, by desire to target companies for supposed support of Israel. .”
The frequency of incidents of violence motivated by hatred against Jews, Muslims, Arabs, Palestinians and Israelis has increased in the United States since the Hamas movement (designated as a terrorist organization in the United States and other countries) attacked Israel on October 7, and Israel launched its war on Gaza, according to Reuters.
According to the statement, Hanihan targeted and attacked businesses in the Orlando area beginning in June 2024, because of their supposed support for Israel, where he wore a “mask” under the cover of the night, he broke the front glass doors of the businesses and left. “warning messages.”
In his letters to the US government, Hanihan put forward a series of political demands, ending with a threat to “destroy or blow up everything in all of America. Especially the companies and the factories that support the State of Israel,” according to the statement.
“By expressing his beliefs, the defendant attacked an energy facility and threatened local businesses, causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage,” said FBI Director Christopher Wray.
He said: “Violence and destruction of property that threaten and intimidate others will never be tolerated. The FBI and our partners will work together to seek out and hold accountable those who use violence .”
According to the US Department of Justice, Hanihan’s attacks escalated in late June, as law enforcement authorities worked to identify the “masked assailant” who stormed a solar power generation facility in Florida and spent hours systematically destroying solar panels.
According to the report, Hanihan is believed to have caused more than $700,000 in damage before law enforcement authorities were able to identify and arrest him on July 11, shortly after he found another “warning message” ‘ threatened to “destroy or blow up everything” in an industrial propane gas distribution warehouse in orlando.
According to the indictment, Hanihan faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison for each count of threatening and a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison for the crime of destroying an energy facility.
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2024-08-16 06:39:46