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Kills parents and plans Trump assassination: 17-year-old charged with terrorism in US

He wanted to start a race war, according to the FBI. He had already purchased a drone to launch explosives and toxic substances

A 17-year-old Wisconsin boy has been accused of murdering his parents and living with their corpses hidden in his home for a fortnight. But according to the FBI, his goal was much broader: to assassinate the President of the United States, Donald Trump.

In an affidavit made public, the FBI reported the discovery in the teenager’s home of a ‘manifesto’ calling for the assassination of the president to unleash race war and chaos in the United States. The teenager, already indicted last month for the double murder, is now also charged with conspiracy to assassinate the president and attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction.

According to the investigation, the boy had shared his plan on TikTok and Telegram, identifying himself as an adept of the Order of the Nine Angles, a neo-Nazi sect that – as the feds explain – promotes the use of terrorism to overthrow governments and destroy modern society.

Investigators report that the teenager had already paid in part for a drone equipped with a release mechanism, designed to carry and release explosives, molotov cocktails and toxic substances. The murder of the parents, according to the FBI, would have been a first step to obtain financial and logistical independence to carry out the terrorist plan.

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