A white supremacist in Colorado and self-described neo-Nazi has been sentenced to more than 19 years in prison for plans to blow up a synagogue in Colorado, the Department of Justice announced Friday.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado, Richard Holzer, 28, was sentenced to 235 months in prison for plotting to assassinate the Emanuel Synagogue in Pueblo. to fall. Holzer was also sentenced to 15 years’ release under supervision.
Holzer, who was arrested in 2019 and charged with a federal hate crime, pleaded guilty to his charges in a plea deal last October. According to the Ministry of Justice, when he was arrested, when he was arrested, he did a secret from the FBI agents that he ‘wanted to do something that would tell the Jewish people in the community that they were not welcome. is not in Pueblo, and that they should leave. ‘ .
Federal officials said Holzer’s plan to ignite explosives in the synagogue met the definition of domestic terrorism, although the dynamite and pipe bombs he received from the secret FBI agents could not be detonated.
“Mr. Holzer targeted a place of worship for violence and destruction to expel people of the Jewish faith from our community,” said Michael Schneider, special agent of the FBI, which is in charge of the Denver office. a statement said.
Holzer also made threats of violence on social media, showing a photo of him with a gun and clothes with white supremacist symbols in 2019 on his Facebook account.
Colorado District Attorney Jason Dunn sees Holzer’s sentencing as a further step forward in our ongoing fight against extremism. ‘