US $ 88 million settlement with victims of white supremacy

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday announced a $ 88 million (PRL 495 million) deal. The white supremacist who shot and killed nine black citizens, In 2015, in an attack on a church in South Carolina.

The judiciary says a settlement has been reached on allegations that the FBI acted negligently in not stopping the sale of weapons to sniper Dylan Roof.

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Roof, 27, declares himself a white supremacist and faces the death penalty for the massacre at the Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston.

Attorney General Merrick Garland declared the shooting attack a “horrible hate crime that caused immeasurable suffering to the families of the victims and the survivors.”

The families of the nine victims of the attack and the demands of the five survivors who were inside the church at the time of the incident have been settled, the judiciary said.

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The families of the nine victims have contracts ranging from US $ 6 million (R $ 33.7 million) to US $ 7.5 million (R $ 42.2 million) and US $ 5 million (R $ 28.1 million) for each survivor.

Prosecutors estimated that under federal law, the FBI’s background check system failed to detect in time that the roof weapon could not be possessed.