Disturbing connections between alleged white supremacists and 2022 Bratislava gay bar killer

New disturbing details have emerged about two alleged anti-LGBTQ+ white supremacists and their involvement in the 2022 shooting of three queer people, including two fatally, outside a gay bar in Bratislava, Slovakia.

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Dallas Erin Humber, 34, of Elk Grove, Calif., and Matthew Robert Allison, 37, of Boise, Idaho, were charged this week with helming an alleged transnational terrorist group known as the Terrorgram Collective. The pair were charged with soliciting hate crimes, attacks on government infrastructure, and the murder of government officials, and conspiring to provide material support to domestic and international racist and anti-LGBTQ+ individuals and groups via the Russian Telegram platform.

The Terrorgram Collective allegedly promoted a white supremacist accelerationism ideology, which believes in the superiority of the white race and that government and society are irreparably corrupt. The ultimate goal of the Terrorgram Collective was to use “violence and terrorism” to “ignite a race war and accelerate the collapse of the government and the rise of a white ethnostate,” the DOJ reported on Monday.

Humber and Allison joined the group in 2019. After one of the group’s leaders was arrested on terrorism charges and the other leader learned he was the subject of a terror-related investigation, the two assumed leadership of the group in 2022.

Under their leadership, the indictment alleges Humber and Allison provided followers with videos and publications that provided hit lists of “high value targets” for assassination along with instructions for planning and executing terror attacks. The group also allegedly lionized as “saints” individuals who committed racist and homophobic murders. They allegedly produced a 24-minute documentary and wrote a “saints encyclopedia” detailing 105 such killers from the past 50 years.

One of those killers was Juraj Krajčík, a 19-year-old reported Terrorgram member who shot and killed Juraj Vankulič, a non-binary person, and Matúš Horváth, a bisexual man, outside the Teplaren gay bar in Bratislava on October 12, 2022.

In his manifesto, Krajčík listed the writings of Terrorgram leaders in his recommended reading section and thanked a former leader convicted of terrorism charges.

“Thank you for your incredible writing and art, for your political texts; for your practical guides,” Krajčík wrote. “Building the future of the White revolution, one publication at a time.”

In the year leading up to the shooting, the indictment claims Humber repeatedly encouraged Krajčík and others in the group to commit acts of murder.

“If you become a Saint I’d narrate your book,” she allegedly wrote in a post on or about July 15, 2022. “That’s the cost of admission, so to speak.”

Humber reportedly later clarified “Dead targets or I don’t care.”

On October 13, 2022, the day after the murders, Humber reportedly posted a “New Saint Announcement” that heralded Krajčík and his killings.

“October 12, 2022 – a new Saint arose in Bratislava, Slovakia. The absolute madlad [Krajčík], became Saint 6th Disciple, and Terrorgram’s very first Saint,” Humber reportedly wrote in the post. “He released his manifesto online before shooting up an LGBT coffee shop, killing 2 f*gs and injuring a waitress, before escaping.”

The post encouraged followers to read the killer’s manifesto while continuing its praise of Krajčík.

“Saint Krajčík’s place in the Pantheon is undisputed, as is our enthusiastic support for his work,” the post added before concluding, “F*cking hail, brother!!!”

The indictment alleges that on October 19, 2022, Humber and Allison released the audiobook of Krajčík’s manifesto. True to her word, Humber reportedly narrated the tract.

The pair also reportedly made Krajčík the focus of the next edition of the group’s periodical, celebrating him as a “self-radicalized accelerationist” and “Terrorgram’s first saint.”

“Today’s indictment charges the defendants with leading a transnational terrorist group dedicated to attacking America’s critical infrastructure, targeting a hit list of our country’s public officials, and carrying out deadly hate crimes – all in the name of violent white supremacist ideology,” Attorney General Merrick B. Garland said in a statement that announced the indictments.

“Hate crimes fueled by bigotry and white supremacy, and amplified by the weaponization of digital messaging platforms, are on the rise and have no place in our society,” Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division said in a statement. “This indictment charges the leaders of a transnational terrorist group with several civil rights violations, including soliciting others to engage in hate crimes and terrorist attacks against Black, immigrant, LGBT, and Jewish people.”

“Whether motivated by racial bias or antagonism toward government and societal norms, such behavior will not be tolerated,” FBI Director Christopher Wray said in a statement.

The indictment includes one count of conspiracy, four counts of soliciting hate crimes, three counts of soliciting the murder of federal officials, three counts of doxing federal officials, one count of threatening communications, two counts of distributing bombmaking instructions, and one count of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists. Humber and Allison each face up to 220 years in prison if convicted on all charges.