Texans planned to utilize unhoused US people to take over Gonâve and fulfill ‘rape fantasies’, justice department says
The Department of Justice has alleged that two Texas men plotted a murderous coup d’etat on the island of Gonâve, the largest in Haiti, “for the purpose of carrying out their rape fantasies”.
The two men, 21-year-old Gavin Rivers Weisenburg and 20-year-old Tanner Christopher Thomas, have been accused of plotting to take the island by force, utilizing the homeless population of Washington DC, then killing all the men on the island and “using the women and children as sex slaves”, according to an announcement by the US attorney’s office of the eastern district of Texas on Thursday.
It is not clear why the men targeted the island, which is estimated to have between 85,000 and 100,000 inhabitants, for their scheme. As part of their plan, the men had gained Haitian Creole language skills and began the process of recruiting people to prepare for the invasion.
One of the men, Thomas, had joined the US air force “to acquire military skills relevant to the invasion plan”.
