Pro-abortion terrorist Hridindu Sankar Roychoudhury firebombed the Wisconsin Family Action Office in Madison on Mother’s Day 2022. Before he could flee the country, he was arrested by police with the help of genetic evidence taken from his half-eaten burrito.
U.S. District Judge William M. Conley on Wednesday sentenced Roychoudhury to 7 1/2 years in prison for the terrorist attack. That’s only two years more than the minimum sentence for his crimes, and likely several years less than the sentences given to the pro-life activists behind the Washington Surgical Clinic in 2020. The demonstrations could ultimately help their peaceful protests.
Wisconsin Family Action Honorary President Julayne Appling
expressed disappointment The bomber, identified by the Justice Department as a domestic terrorist, reportedly landed lightly.
“May 8, 2022 is etched in my mind forever. Those who disagree with us can and will use violence to try to silence us. “It was a very visual reminder of that. We recommended a 15-year sentence for the defendant,” Mr Appling said. “We judged it on the basis of justice, not on retaliation or revenge, but on punishment that fits the crime. This was a serious, premeditated crime, and one of the approximately 100 attacks on pro-life organizations nationwide. With this in mind, we are disappointed in the judge’s decision regarding a crime that he repeatedly referred to as “terrorism.” ”
“There is no civil society when the default response to people’s disagreements is violence,” Appling added.
Christine Feil, current president of the WFA, similarly expressed disappointment, saying, “The court strengthened protections for constitutional rights such as freedom of speech and freedom of movement, rights that have themselves come under attack in recent years.” “I missed the opportunity to do so,” he said.
“Given the gravity of his crimes and the charges to which he has pleaded guilty, the sentence is disproportionate. However, as we have said since the day of the attack, any act or threat of violence or terrorism is It does not deter us from our mission: a voice for the voiceless,” said Appling.
The sentencing for Roychowdhury, who happened to be accused of detonating a nail bomb outside the Republican attorney general’s office in Montgomery, Alabama, in February, also appeared online with pro-abortion agitprop and other left-wing messages. It took place on the same day that Antifa militants were arrested.
pro-abortion terrorism
Blaze News previously reported this about a week after the U.S. Supreme Court’s draft opinion was filed. Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organizationrejected Roe vs. Wadewas leaked to the public, pro-abortion extremists and other leftists stepped up attacks on pro-life facilities, activists, and churches across the country. One of the hundreds of pro-life targets was the WFA office near the Dane County Regional Airport.
Early in the morning on Mother’s Day 2022, Roychoudhury threw a petrol bomb at the WFA office. Unable to ignite it, he started another fire nearby and left graffiti that read, “If abortion is not safe, you are not safe.” This is a threat commonly used by the pro-abortion terrorist organization Jane’s Revenge.
The number “1312” was also spray-painted at the scene, a reference to “ACAB,” which stands for “All Cops Are Bastards.”
Fortunately, no one was in the office at the time of the attack.
Police later found a broken glass bottle with a blackened lid near a disposable lighter at the scene. There was also a second glass bottle nearby, with the lid closed and a burnt blue cloth wedged in the top. The second bottle was half full of a “clear liquid that smelled like an accelerant.”
Jane’s revenge blog on the day of the attack
Posted Roychoudhury’s purported “statement” said, “This was just a warning. We will disband all anti-choice facilities, fake clinics, and violent anti-choice groups within the next 30 days. …We will not do that.” “Sit still while we are killed and forced into slavery. We lack patience and mercy.”
The post added: “Wisconsin is the first flashpoint, but we’re all across the country, so there’s no further warning. And we won’t stop, we won’t retreat, and we won’t hesitate to attack.” .
Julain Appling, then WFA president, said: “Apparently, the tolerance demanded by the left is just one way. Violence has become their answer to everything.”
The WFA made abundantly clear in the immediate aftermath of the pro-abortion terrorist attacks and in the years that followed that it would not bow to intimidation.
“This strengthens our resolve. We will restore our offices, continue our work and build an even stronger grassroots effort,” Appling said.
Escape failure due to burrito
according to In a report to the Department of Justice, local law enforcement officers collected DNA belonging to three individuals from the scene of the attack. The suspect’s DNA was not found in the Justice Department’s genetic database.
Despite this setback, investigators continued investigating while Appling posted a $5,000 reward for potential leads.
In January 2023, the case was resolved. As police pored over surveillance footage from left-wing protests, they noticed anti-cop graffiti similar to threatening messages left at WFA offices. After further analysis of the footage, police confirmed that the suspects left the scene in a white pickup truck, leading investigators to Roychoudhury.
Suspecting that the biochemist was involved in the bombings, they kept an eye on him. On March 1, 2023, police were given the opportunity to match the bomber’s DNA with that found at the crime scene. The terrorist had thrown a half-eaten burrito into a public trash can. Authorities recovered the burrito and had its DNA tested by forensic biologists at the AFT laboratory. They eventually confirmed that Roychoudhury was their man.
The problem of catching him still remained.
Roychoudhury recently left Madison for Portland, Maine, where he purchased a one-way ticket from Boston to Guatemala on March 28th. The United States has extradition treaties with countries in the south, but once in Guatemala, Roychoudhury could have found his way out of American reach.
Law enforcement arrested Roychoudhury at Boston Logan International Airport on the day he was scheduled to leave the country and permanently deported him.
“The incendiary bombing was an unacceptable attack on the safety and constitutionally protected rights of all citizens of Wisconsin.”
Said Michael Hensle, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Milwaukee Field Office.
guilt and sentencing
Roy Chowdhury
plead guilty From December 1, 2023, this will fall under the category of attempting to cause damage by using fire or explosives.
He could have been sentenced to decades in prison, but prosecutors agreed with Judge Conley to recommend a reduced sentence because the terrorist allegedly admitted responsibility for the crime.
report Associated Press.
Following Wednesday’s sentencing of Roychoudhury, U.S. Attorney Timothy M. O’Shea said:
repeated “Mr Roychoudhury’s arson was an act of domestic terrorism,” the statement said.
“Domestic terrorism is despicable and deeply undemocratic,” O’Shea continued. “This is not speech, and this is not an exchange of ideas. Rather, it is an attempt to harm or intimidate fellow citizens, thereby dividing Americans and weakening the fabric of our democratic society.” It is.”
ATF Director Steven Dettelbach underlined That the pro-abortion attack was indeed an act of terrorism.
“Engaging in an act of terrorism, in this case dropping an incendiary bomb on a business because of your beliefs, is criminal and un-American. As today’s ruling shows, it will not be tolerated,” Dettelbach said. Stated.
“The defendant’s act of domestic terrorism, which threatens the nation, his family and friends, his neighbors, and the larger pro-life community, is unconscionable,” WFA President Christine Files said Thursday. Others disagree that they attacked our civil society and its foundational constitutional rights.”
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