A car bomb suspect in Charlottesville is indicted on charges of hate crimes

The August rally in Charlottesville, organized by Unite the Right, which brought together several far-right groups, took place amidst a series of protests by white supremacist groups in the United States. 39, abductions of Confederate monuments across the South. Hundreds protested against the city's decision to remove a statue of Robert E. Lee, the Confederate General. The rally, as a result of a torch-lit march a night earlier, quickly turned into taunts, jostling and racial fights. The governor declared the state of emergency and the police and the National Guard cleaned up the area.

Mr. Fields was among the crowd of protesters "engaged in songs promoting or expressing white supremacy and other racist and anti-Semitic views," according to the Department of Justice. After they were dispersed, prosecutors said, Mr. Fields drove away and encountered a "racially and ethnically diverse crowd of individuals" at the bottom of a hill protesting against discrimination. .

"Fields has slowly brought his vehicle back to the top of the hill," wrote the prosecutor in the indictment while trying to underline his intention, then he accelerated quickly, crossed a road sign. stop and went through a pedestrian mall. "Mr. Fields' car stopped only when it hit another vehicle, then he ran away," said the court documents, "Ms. Heyer was killed and dozens wounded.

In the hours and days that followed, Mr. Trump alternated his responses, condemning the violence but refusing first to criticize white nationalists or neo-Nazi slogans exposed during the demonstration. He blamed "hatred, fanaticism and violence on all sides" and said the protesters included "very good people".

Civil rights supporters reprimanded Trump, his Republican colleagues rushed to condemn the resurgence of white supremacist rallies and others lined up with the White House withdrew their support, including several corporate executives , prompting the president to dismantle two advisory councils.

But while conservatives and progressives were castigating Trump, David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader, sent a disturbing warning to the president. "I urge you to look in the mirror and remember that it was the white Americans who put you in the chair, not the radical leftists," Duke said. wrote on Twitter.