Former Marine Allegedly Plotted Mass Murders, Rapes To Increase 'Production Of White Children'

Honolulu, Hawaii -- A former U.S. Marine from Long Island plotted mass murders and sexual assaults as part of an agenda to decrease “the number of minority residents” in the country, federal prosecutors said.

Matthew Belanger, an alleged member of a far-right neo-Nazi group called “Rapekrieg" was arrested in June on firearms charges. He pleaded not guilty to the charges Monday.

Federal prosecutors said in a July 14 court memo Belanger was plotting more heinous crimes as part of a mission to reduce the number of nonwhite Americans and to rape “white women to increase the production of white children,” Rolling Stone reported.

Belanger became part of the Marine Corps in 2019. Before his discharge in May 2021, Marine Corps officials and the FBI found “1,950 images, videos and documents related to white power groups, Nazi literature, brutality towards the Jewish community, brutality towards women, rape, mass murderers” among Belanger’s possessions and in his electronic devices.

Court documents filed this month said Belanger was “using social media to conspire with others, including members of a group called Rapekrieg, to commit ... hate crimes,” according to NBC News.

The group “had procured weapons, uniforms, and tactical gear, and discussed committing attacks on a synagogue, Jewish persons, women, and minorities, including the rape of 'enemies' to injure, oppress, threaten, and intimidate, and the rape of white women to increase the production of white children in furtherance of Rapekrieg’s goal of creating a white ethno-state through accelerationist means,” the documents said.

Belanger was referred to as the leader and administrator of Rapekrieg by other members of the group. The ex-marine also allegedly wrote their manifesto, which mentioned the white man “must learn to hate” to be “successful in this battle for survival.”

Prosecutors also said in the court memo that Belanger plotted to attack a New York synagogue with firearms and Molotov cocktails, according to the New York Post.

Belanger’s arrest in June was in connection with him paying a police officer, while he was serving as a Marine to buy guns he wasn’t legally allowed to purchase. Belanger has pleaded not guilty to those charges Monday and is currently detained in Honolulu.

No charges have been filed against him with respect to his alleged Rapekrieg membership.