Chicago: Three protesters arrested Wednesday on terrorism charges ahead of key Nato summit were plotting an attack on President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign headquarters, prosecutors said on Saturday.
“The individuals we charged in this investigation are not peaceful protesters. They are domestic terrorists,” AFP quoted state attorney Anita Alvarez as saying.
“Some of the proposed targets were the campaign headquarters of President Barack Obama and the home of mayor Rahm Emanuel.”
However, the lawyers for the three men insisted they were innocent and instead police were targeting them to discredit the movement.
But prosecutors and police said they had plenty of evidence that the “self-proclaimed anarchists” were building Molotov cocktails and planned to bring a lot of damage to the summit.
The three men charged were Brian Church, 22, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Jared Chase, 27, of Keene, New Hampshire; and Brent Betterly, 24, of Massachusetts.
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