Three men were transferred from the DRC to us, one arrested in the Utah accused of the state of state to overthrow the government of the RDC
A criminal complaint not saved on Wednesday in the Utah district accused four US citizens With conspiracy to illegally perform a coup d’état in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (RDC).
Marcel Malanga, 22 years old, Tyler Thompson, 22 years old, Benjamin Zalman-Polun, 37 years old, and Joseph Peter Moesser, 67, are accused of conspiracy to provide material support and resources, conspiracy to use the weapons of mass of mass, conspiracy to bomb the government’s places and the conspiracy to kill or kidnapped Department of Justice of the United States (DOJ).
Benjamin Reuben Zalman-Polun, on the left, Marcel Malanga and Tyler Thompson, all American citizens, attend a court verdict in Congo, Kinshasa, on Friday 13 September 2024, on charges of taking part in an attempt at the coup in May 2024. (Photo/Samy Kiami
Congo included 3 death phrases of the Americans after the coup d’etat attempt
Men are accused of conducting an armed coup d’état, targeting the president of the DRC Félix TSHiseKedi and the deputy prime minister for the Vitale Kamerhe economy, attacking both the Nation Palais de la – the official house and the main workplace of the president – and Kamerhe’s Private Home in Kinshasa, Drc.
At least six people died during the attack, including two police officers who protect Kamerhe’s house and at least one innocent civil.
The Doj stated that the goal of the operation was to kill President Félix TSHisekedi, Kamerhe and others, to establish a new government known as the new Zaire and the installation of the leader Christian Malanga, who died during the coup, as president of the new Zaire.
Rebecca Higbee, mother of Tyler Thompson, indicates her son and friend Marcel during her 21st birthday with her family on May 30, 2024, in West Jordan, in Utah. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
Marcel Malanga identified himself as the “head of the staff of the Zaire Army“; Polun was the head of Christian Malanga staff; Moesser was the producer, technician and explosive supplier; and Thompson was a soldier, a drone specialist and an operator, according to the complaint.
Christian Malanga, Marcel Malanga, Thompson, Polun and Moesser presumably conspired to provide material support and resources including services, training, advice or assistance of experts, communication equipment, weapons, explosives and staff of the rebellious army that had been trained to overthrow the government of the RDC.
Tyler Thompson Jr, he turns to the Court of Kinshasa with 52 other defendants on Friday 7 June 2024, accused of a role in an attempt to take a coup of last month in Congo, led by a little -known opposition figure Christian Malanga, in which six people were killed. (Photo/Samy Kiami
Flashback: 3 Americans in Congo sentenced to death after a coup d’etat
The Doj also accused the men of having conspired to acquire and use mass destruction weapons during the coup.
Presumably they planned to use bombs that could be lined up at their goals, including people, private houses and public buildings, through drones.
In addition, they intended to connect a flamefiamme device to a drone and use it as a incendiary device to turn on the people on fire.
Thompson unleashes the attack of the flamefiamme drones from its box and displays it for the camera. (Department of Justice of the United States)
At the beginning of this month, The President of the RDC The death phrases of Marcel Malanga, Thompson and Polun, passing them in life imprisonment.
If condemned, men face a maximum sentence of up to 15 years of prison for each conspiracy count to provide material support and resources and up to life in prison for each conspiracy count to use weapons of mass destruction, conspiracy to bomb the places of the places government structuresAnd conspiracy to kill or kidnap people in a foreign country.
Malanga and Thompson, if sentenced, should also face a maximum sentence of up to 15 years of prison for each count to bring a firearm from the United States to engage in a crime.
The defendants were seen in a live streaming on social media during the coup attempt. (Department of Justice of the United States)
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Malanga, Thompson and Polun should make their initial appearances at the Federal Court of Brooklyn, New York. Moesser should make his initial appearance on April 10 at the Federal Court of Salt Lake City, in Utah.
After their initial appearances in New York, Malanga, Thompson and Polun will be expected to appear in Salt Lake City for further legal proceedings.
The case was investigated by the Office on the field of the FBI Salt Lake City, with the assistance of the FBI Office of the FBI New York and the FBI legal office in Nairobi, Kenya, which supervises the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Greg Norman of Fox News Digital has contributed to this relationship.
