26-year-old Matthew Gust, of Grand Forks, North Dakota, who pleaded guilty to arson and hate-crime charges on May 19, when he threw a Molotov cocktail through the window of a Somali restaurant in North Dakota on the 8th of December 2015 has been slammed with a 15-year jail term.
In his plea agreement, Gust (a US national) said he threw a lighted beer bottle filled with gasoline into the Juba Café in Grand Forks on the day of the incident to “intimidate and interfere with the Somali employees and patrons,” Vanita Gupta, head of the U.S. Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division said, calling Gust a perpetrator of “hate violence.”
The North Dakota incident came a little more a month after Islamic State’s Nov. 13 gun and bomb attacks on entertainment sites around Paris, France, that left dozens dead
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