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@Bellingcat project monitoring far-right and anti-equality movements, with an emphasis on digital organization and activism.

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The latest episode of the Bellingcat Monitoring podcast is out! 🇩🇪 @AmadeuAntonio 's Una Titz spoke with @ColborneMichael about the past, present and future (and also the bizarreness) of Germany's far right Available wherever you get your podcasts
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🧵1/10: In Hungary 🇭🇺 and Serbia 🇷🇸 elections, nationalist, Putin-friendly right-wing parties led by Viktor Orbán (Fidesz) & Aleksandar Vučić (SNS) have tightened holds on power — with some new far-right allies — thanks in part to illiberal systems they've built for themselves
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Self-described misogynist and internet celebrity Andrew Tate has reportedly been arrested in Bucharest, Romania 🇷🇴 on human trafficking charges
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In Rotterdam 🇳🇱, racist slogans including the neo-Nazi '14 words' were projected onto the Erasmus Bridge at the stroke of midnight during New Year's celebrations
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Online court filings place U.S. neo-Nazi Kent McLellan in Florida at the times when he says he was fighting in Ukraine in 2022. Further records show he was legally mandated to remain in Florida in 2014 and 2015, other times he says he visited Ukraine.
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During a Scottish Cup semi-final football match between Celtic and Rangers on Sunday at Glasgow's Hampden Park, some Rangers supporters displayed a flag featuring a Totenkopf – a Nazi symbol – as well as a quote commonly attributed to Fascist leader Benito Mussolini
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Slovenia, #volitve2022 : the SDS party of PM Janez Janša, accused of accelerating 🇸🇮 's democratic decline (and enabling and working with far-right extremists) bested by new green/centre-left 'Freedom Movement', says parallel vote/exit poll (but don't count SDS/Janša out forever)
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Former 🇸🇰PM Robert Fico has appeared alongside far-right extremist Daniel Bombic on a YouTube show. Fico, who is trying to win back power after being ousted in 2018, praised the antisemitic Bombic and described him as someone who means well for Slovakia
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Slovakian far-right conspiracist Daniel Bombic has had yet another UK extradition hearing postponed. A London court was originally supposed to hear Slovakia's extradition request in January — now it'll be delayed til September, just days before elections
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🧵1/5 Germany has banned the neo-Nazi Hammerskins group, as well as their affiliated support group Crew 38. The Hammerskins are a secretive international neo-Nazi network, as we at @bellingcat have written about in several articles recently (below).
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A man suspected of involvement in an antisemitic laser projection at Anne Frank House in Amsterdam was arrested in Poland It's evident the suspect is Robert Wilson (41), a Canadian wanted in the U.S. on hate crimes charges, and known to be in Poland
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Concerts, combat sports, swastikas and...saunas? Some of Europe’s most notorious neo-Nazi networks have met up the last two years for festivals at undisclosed resorts in the Finnish wilderness. Teemu Nieminen and @ColborneMichael found the locations.
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As Andrew Tate ( @cobratate ) and brother Tristan ( @TateTheTalisman ) face trial in Romania on serious criminal charges, their global ‘War Room’ is being run by men who have tried to keep their real identities obscured. From @ColborneMichael @Bellingcat
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1/2 Bulgaria 🇧🇬 — authorities banned an annual torchlit march in central Sofia to honour a general who led a fascist, pro-Nazi movement in World War II. Police also blocked streets around where Lukov had lived in Sofia to prevent a further commemoration
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Slovakian far-right conspiracist and UK resident Daniel Bombic, who our @ColborneMichael wrote about last month, claimed he was arrested on August 21, two days after our investigation. 🇸🇰 media reports he posted bail, has extradition hearing Jan 2023
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Slovakia media report that Daniel Bombic, who was arrested two days after our @bellingcat investigation, is out on £15K (~€17K) bail, has to wear an electronic monitoring anklet & check in with police, has a 10pm curfew, can't leave England & Wales + more
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Slovakia’s most popular Telegram channel has long spread dangerous disinformation, espoused discredited conspiracies and doxxed its perceived opponents. The man behind the channel, it transpires, is now also wanted by police. New from @bcatmonitoring
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Sweden Democrats "are currently by far the biggest party in the world with Nazi roots...this background is today still present in the sense that the SD…[sees] itself as the only political force that can save the native white Swedish majority population”
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The first episode of our Bellingcat Monitoring Podcast is out! @Bellingcat ’s @ColborneMichael speaks with @evianeleidig about women and the far right: female influencers and media personalities, the diverse roles of women on the far right, and more
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"...hate speech is on the rise on Twitter. By further interacting with these types of [far right] accounts and their content, Musk is signaling to his followers and other Twitter users that these ideas are acceptable on the platform" - @ISDglobal
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"...authorities believe the men were put in touch by a German military reservist who is a member of the far-right...Alternative for Germany, or AfD"
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A dozen people with links to a French far-right group went on trial on Tuesday, accused of plotting to assassinate President Emmanuel Macron and commit a string of other attacks
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2/10 In Hungary, the electoral system is hardly fair, being called an "electoral autocracy": gerrymandered systems + institutional/media domination by ruling Fidesz after more than a decade in power, all while benefiting from 🇪🇺 funds
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R. Daniel Kelemen
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Most important thing to keep in mind about tomorrow’s “election” in Hungary is that the leading ratings bodies like @vdeminstitute do not consider Hungary a democracy. It is an “electoral autocracy” that holds heavily rigged elections to help legitimize the regime. 🧵 to follow👇
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There's a whole web of far-right shops online — and as @FoekePostma reveals in our latest, they take advantage of mainstream infrastructure (payment processors, content management systems, domain registrars, etc.) to promote their ideologies and make money
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10/10 tl;dr Hungary & Serbia saw nationalist right-wing, pro-RU leaders & parties gain convincing victories thanks in part to the systems they've created after years in power, and the far-right fringes have gained as well. Further elections to watch for this year: 🇸🇮, 🇱🇻 + 🇧🇦...
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In Australia 🇦🇺, a group of Neo-Nazis marched through Melbourne, performing Nazi salutes as they, in their leader's words, were "protecting" and acting as the "vanguard" of defense of an event featuring a British anti-trans activist
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Meet the most popular Telegrammer in Slovakia 🇸🇰 (and Czechia 🇨🇿), a London 🇬🇧 resident — and antisemitic conspiracy theorist and self-described 'Master Doxxer' far-right extremist wanted on international warrants by Slovakian police By @ColborneMichael
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U.S. far-right extremist Robert Rundo has been arrested in Bucharest, Romania 🇷🇴 Facing U.S. federal charges and an extradition stateside, he's been on the run for several years. He's someone we at @Bellingcat know well (and vice versa) A short 🧵
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Police in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 have made two arrests in connection with the use of a laser projector to display hate speech on the Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam during the nationally televised New Year’s Eve countdown
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" @Bellingcat investigates the world of Russian far-right and neo-Nazi groups, including the Male State, an online group of far-right Russian misogynists that expanded just before the invasion and became one of the most vocal boosters of Putin’s policies..."
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Programme on Democracy and Technology
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📢Launch of our newsletter on the War in Ukraine and Disinformation! Ed by @ @alesherasimenka and Danielle Recanati @PeaceTechLab , and feat work by @LenMaschmeyer , @ISDglobal , @meduza_en , @ColborneMichael , @hrw and more. Please read and subscribe here👇
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An insightful read on (raw) food and the far right from @evianeleidig and @joshmolloy101 , and how the bizarre recipes and diet tips some of the far right promote (e.g. 36 raw eggs a day) are rooted in (hyper)masculinity, fertility, purity and the like
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According to @InsiderEng , one of the first places the video appeared was the Telegram channel of Vladislav Pozdnyakov, founder of Russian far-right misogynist hate group Male State
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Wilson, 41, is a Canadian citizen wanted in the U.S. on hate crimes charges; he fled last year to Poland. He was arrested there in April 2023 for his alleged involvement in an antisemitic laser projection at Anne Frank House in Amsterdam.
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The suspect in two 🇺🇸 shootings of Jewish men "had a disturbing history of antisemitic threats...including emailing dozens of former classmates that Jews are “primitive” and repeatedly texting another former classmate with threatening messages"
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The perpetrator of a 2022 far-right terror attack at a Bratislava, Slovakia 🇸🇰 LGBT+ bar likely had help with his manifesto and comms from a native English speaker, write Julia Kupper, @KacperRekawek and @mattkriner in this report for @TheARConsortium
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Some verification work on the recent claim regarding the journalist abducted by Belarusian authorities and Azov:
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Oleksiy Kuzmenko
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Thread. Re Protasevich and Azov. Here's what's out there to be analyzed against other evidence, commentary: 1st photo is Protasevich, 2nd photo is the cover of Azov's "Black Sun" publication July 2015 issue #15 . 3rd photo is what  @azure says: "0.70 confidence" (that's high-ish).
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On Tuesday Ieper🇧🇪 council is meeting to again discuss Frontnacht, the far-right concert planned for late August. Locals have presented a petition demanding the concert be banned, saying it has "no place" in the city. Read our article on Frontnacht:
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Despite being found guilty of an attack “brutal in its force, speed and repetition," Australian🇦🇺 neo-Nazi Thomas Sewell has managed to avoid jail time
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2/2 The Lukov March — condemned by a number of embassies (e.g., 🇺🇸,🇬🇧,🇮🇱,🇫🇷), Bulgaria's own MFA, Jewish orgs and numerous human rights orgs — was reduced to a daytime 'march' of only ~150 far-rightists from Bulgaria, Hungary 🇭🇺, Germany 🇩🇪, Czechia 🇨🇿, France 🇫🇷 & others
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3/10 Fidesz swept to a "crushing victory" — again a 2/3 supermajority despite ~53% of vote — with Orban listing off everyone in his mind who opposed him and his party: "the left" at home and abroad, George Soros, Brussels bureaucrats and even @ZelenskyyUa
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Not surprisingly, RIM has denied this report on their Telegram channel today. They complain about the "masonic" NYT report as an effort by the "collective west" to "discredit" RIM. They deny any link to Russian military intelligence and deny any support or interest in terrorism.
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American and European officials believe that Russian military intelligence officers directed associates of a white supremacist militant group based in Russia — the Russian Imperial Movement (RIM) — to carry out a recent letter bomb campaign in Spain
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@bellingcat Since July Bombic has had a @facebook private group — "Danny Kollar fans official" — which now has 10,000 members and is full of the same far-right, anti-vax content. They use the fact they're a private group to try and promote content that likely violates Community Standards
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4/10 Fidesz's shift further right has been well-documented — we mention it in our own work (below) — intense anti-migrant, anti-Muslim, anti-LGBT+ rhetoric and policy that echoes, just in more polite form, what comes from the far-right fringes
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(CW: hate speech in Russian in 2nd photo) Photographed in Barcelona 🇪🇸 earlier this week: anti-Ukrainian graffiti (multiple 'Z' symbols and an anti-Ukrainian slur written in Russian), on Plaça Espanya. This is not the first time this has happened. cc @GUBBarcelona
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Our goal with this podcast is to shed light on issues related to the far right across central/eastern Europe and around the world that aren’t always discussed in as much depth as they should be. Find us wherever you get your podcasts — stay tuned for more!
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Our latest: a major European security firm in Poland has — once again — provided training to individuals linked to the far right, even after telling us at @Bellingcat back in 2018 they wouldn't train people from far-right and neo-Nazi backgrounds
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A @hopenothate poll has revealed that more teenage boys in 🇬🇧 have watched Andrew Tate’s videos than heard of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. Eight in 10 boys between 16 and 17 had either read, listened to or watched Tate's content
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5/10 But Fidesz won't be alone in parliament. The far-right Mi Hazánk (Our Homeland) got 6.2% and 7 seats in Hungary's 199-seat parliament. Formed from the fringes of once-far-right Jobbik, Mi Hazánk seems there to make Orbán look moderate by comparison
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"Ukrainization" — a catchphrase used by far-right pro-RU figures in Poland & beyond who claim, among other things, that 🇺🇦ians in 🇵🇱 are changing the country's "ethnic structure" (sound familiar?) Interesting read from @FRONTSTORY_PL @VSquare_Project
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1/6 Who are the Russians and Ukrainians translating the Christchurch shooter’s manifesto? In the wake of yet more far-right terror attacks this month, we at @BcatMonitoring @bellingcat took a look at translations of the manifesto and why they matter.
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American and European officials believe that Russian military intelligence officers directed associates of a white supremacist militant group based in Russia — the Russian Imperial Movement (RIM) — to carry out a recent letter bomb campaign in Spain
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The latest episode of the Bellingcat Monitoring Podcast is out! @ColborneMichael spoke to Sam Moore and Alex Roberts ( @12rulesforwhat ) about their book 'The Rise of Ecofascism: Climate Change and the Far Right' Available wherever you get your podcasts
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7/10 Parallel count from @CeSIDBeograd estimates Vučić got 1st-round victory in the prez vote, while SNS + allies got majority in parliament. But Serbia's also an electoral autocracy, where SNS has "eroded political rights and civil liberties"
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6/10 Meanwhile, across the border in Serbia, election results haven't even been announced yet (arousing suspicion) though it's clear who the winner of both parliamentary and presidential elections will be — current president Aleksandar Vučić and his SNS
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There, it’s gone down to 66,15% with 17,79% votes counted. If you screenshot the, uhm, video they’re using to report the results at just the right time, you might even get a clear picture. (Or you can squint and hope for the best)
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Slovakian far-right conspiracist Daniel Bombic has had yet another UK extradition hearing postponed. A London court was originally supposed to hear Slovakia's extradition request in January — now it'll be delayed til September, just days before elections
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Hello! This is a new project we are launching to conduct digital monitoring of far-right and anti-equality movements in Ukraine, Armenia, and Kyrgyzstan. This project will be run by @kooleksiy and @ColborneMichael (Ukraine), @narin_kh (Armenia), and @aiganysh_aidar (Kyrgyzstan).
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Robert Wilson, a public face of a U.S.🇺🇸 hate group, was supposed to stand trial for allegedly assaulting his neighbour while yelling homophobic slurs. But court records and interviews suggest Wilson has fled prosecution and is in Poland 🇵🇱
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9/10 This is alongside an active and violent extra-parliamentary far right, e.g., anti-migrant 'People's Patrol' as well as Levijatan (below), whose leader tried & failed to get into parliament as part of a Russian minority list despite not being Russian
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We had suspected, if Rundo left Bulgaria in 2023, he'd go to Romania 🇷🇴 next. As the news of his arrest in Bucharest makes clear, we were right. But what now for Rundo? And what now for his international network of friends and supporters? Stay tuned...
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Argentina🇦🇷: President-elect Javier Milei appointed a former neo-Nazi to head the Treasury's prosecution office. Rodolfo Barra was in the Tacuara Nationalist Movement, a violent far-right Peronist group that veered towards explicit neo-Nazism in the '60s.
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The woman on the right in the first pic (credit @arisroussinos ), holding up an offensive sign at #KyivPride2019 , is Vita Zaverukha. She was arrested in 2015 in connection with the deaths of two policemen - and she is an unabashed, unashamed neo-Nazi.
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An investigation by @theage has uncovered links between a Melbourne 🇦🇺 boxing gym, some of the state of Victoria’s most dangerous neo-Nazis, and a growing community of young men learning to box at the gym
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Interpreting far-right symbols is easy, right? Well, not always. That's why @ColborneMichael has laid out, in @Bellingcat 's latest resource guide, how you should (and shouldn’t) make sense of far-right symbolism
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An extreme nationalist organisation from Turkey set up a Bosnian branch whose leader helped President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s regime target opponents from the so-called Gulenist movement for extradition @NKuloglija
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Don't want to help mainstream neo-Nazis? Then don't do what Ukraine's Prime Minister did last week. Oleksiy Honcharuk, Ukraine's PM, appeared on stage at a concert organized by a notorious far-right figure and headlined by an openly neo-Nazi band
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At @Bellingcat we can now access specialised satellite imagery. Where should we look? (And, of course, is there any way that such specialised satellite imagery can aid with open-source research on the far right? Discuss.)
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8/10 SNS and Vučić — who himself has roots in the far right — will be joined by a few far-right allies in Serbia's parliament. Zavetnici (Oathkeepers), NADA (Nat'l Demo Alternative) and Dveri, according to estimates, will make it past threshold and 35 of the assembly's 250 seats
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YouTube autogenerates music videos for audio tracks provided by labels and distributors — which, as @Pooja_Chaudhuri writes for @bellingcat , include far-right "Hindutva Pop" songs with hateful, violent content that advocates expelling Muslims from India
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"Far-right leader Giorgia Meloni has won Italy's election, according to exit polls, and is on course to become the country's first female prime minister. If they are confirmed, Ms Meloni will aim to form Italy's most right-wing government since World War Two."
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BBC News (UK)
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Italy's far right set to win election - exit poll
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In Bratislava, Slovakia 🇸🇰, a man has shot killed two people outside a popular LGBT+ venue in the city. The man, reportedly a 19-year-old from Bratislava, publicly shared an anti-LGBT+, antisemitic manifesto several hours before the shooting
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In Georgia, a festival planned as part of Tbilisi Pride has been called off after police did nothing to stop supporters of the far-right extremist group Alt Info from entering the venue and destroying installations before it was to start
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1/4 Yesterday turned out to be a crap day for some of Ukraine's anti-LGBT extremists.... Photos provided to @censor_net show what some were up to - police say they stole 4 portable toilets & were stuffing other people's feces into condoms (~200) to throw at #KyivPride marchers
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3/5 In Hungary, the German and Hungarian branches of the Hammerskins helped organize 'European Fight Night,' an event that, because of our article, was forced to move far outside of Budapest (and the organizers were not happy with us about it).
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Update: On July 8, Wilson was reportedly arrested at Frankfurt Airport on what looks to be a European Arrest Warrant (EAW). On July 13, a Telegram user claiming to be close to Wilson says he is in custody in Germany, awaiting extradition to the Netherlands or return to Poland.
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A man suspected of involvement in an antisemitic laser projection at Anne Frank House in Amsterdam was arrested in Poland It's evident the suspect is Robert Wilson (41), a Canadian wanted in the U.S. on hate crimes charges, and known to be in Poland
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5/5 Lastly, read what our @colbornemichael wrote for @C4ARR and @opendemocracy about why we all need to pay more attention to the connections between organized crime and the far right
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March 20: five days after the Christchurch shootings, Ukraine-based Russian Azov veteran Nikita Makeev posts praise for the shooter on @instagram - shooter as saint, along with excerpt from a poem about the Crusades July 18: Makeev is given Ukrainian citizenship by @ZelenskyyUa
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Hate in Canada's largest province is at a "linchpin moment, we’re either going to keep it in the grenade or we’re going to see some things explode." Hate incidents, from assaults to vandalism, have been increasing in Ontario and nationwide.
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Robert Wilson, the San Diego🇺🇸-based far-right extremist, Canadian🇨🇦 citizen and now presumed Poland 🇵🇱 resident, is suspected by Dutch🇳🇱 police in antisemitic incident at Anne Frank House in Amsterdam @Jill_Castellano
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3/4 The memes are already out - we found this one on @Bykvu 's Instagram (from title, then left to right) - "When a warrior for "traditional values" doesn't answer the phone" - "What his mom thinks" - "What his dad thinks" - "What his friends think" - "What he's actually doing"
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2/5 In Finland, neo-Nazis have organized small concert meetups at secret locations — until we found them. Members of Finland's Crew 38, who are alleged by police to have connections to accused far-right terrorists in Finland, took part in these events.
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Right-wing terror threats make up ~30% of Australia's security agency's counter-terror cases, as the head warns far-right extremists feel "more emboldened to come out publicly, to push what they believe in and recruit to their cause"
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Ukrainian neo-Nazi group C14 recently won a court case against @Hromadske claiming they weren't really neo-Nazis. But our @bellingcat @BcatMonitoring project looked into why it's (still) very much ok for you to use the word "neo-Nazi" to describe C14.
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Bellingcat Monitoring Project
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1/8 Members of Ukrainian far-right/anti-LGBT groups Tradition & Order, Katehon, Bratstvo & others have formed new Telegram group "Протидія ЛГБТ" ('Counteract/Opposition to LGBT) in last few days to promote anti-LGBT actions in advance of the KyivPride March of Equality June 23
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Bellingcat Monitoring Project
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Frontnacht no more: Ieper🇧🇪 council has revoked the permit it originally gave for far-right music event Frontnacht, which we wrote about in July (in tweet below)
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@BcatMonitoring
Bellingcat Monitoring Project
2 years
On Tuesday Ieper🇧🇪 council is meeting to again discuss Frontnacht, the far-right concert planned for late August. Locals have presented a petition demanding the concert be banned, saying it has "no place" in the city. Read our article on Frontnacht:
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Bellingcat Monitoring Project
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Dutch police have arrested 11 far-right @Feyenoord hooligans (RJK), accused of displaying threatening banners in Tirana 🇦🇱 ('22 @europacnfleague final), vandalizing home with anti-LGBT+ slogans and setting fire to gym of president of a group of LGBT+ fans
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Bellingcat Monitoring Project
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LGBT+ activists have reported a sharp increase in anti-gay abuse and violence in Israel in recent months, and expected a large turnout for this year’s parade. They braced for possible violence, but the march went off peacefully under heavy security
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Bellingcat Monitoring Project
5 years
Kyiv: a concert hosted by a veterans' mov't founded by C14 member, accused murderer Andriy Medvedko, features longtime Ukrainian neo-Nazi band Sokyra Peruna. According to several social media accounts - but not confirmed - also there: Ukraine's Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk
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Bellingcat Monitoring Project
2 years
Ahead of 🇫🇮 Finland elections, the far-right Finns Party "is doing well under a relatively new leader...an ethno-nationalist, anti-migrant, radical right party that has streamlined its ideological line and draws an anti-establishment vote.”
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Bellingcat Monitoring Project
5 years
In the wake of our @bellingcat investigation, neo-Nazi group Wotanjugend has deleted video on its @telegram page of the Christchurch attacks and links to a post praising the shooter. Their website is also (as of this tweet) inaccessible. Our investigation:
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Bellingcat Monitoring Project
2 years
Brandon Russell, Atomwaffen founder recently released from prison, has been arrested again and accused of plotting an attack on a U.S. power grid with a woman he met while incarcerated
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@BcatMonitoring
Bellingcat Monitoring Project
2 years
The 🇬🇧 report "...said there is a risk of insider threats in both the police force and the military, given right-wing extremists’ interest in “military culture, weaponry and the Armed Forces or law enforcement organisations.”
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Bellingcat Monitoring Project
2 years
Despite last week's shooting at a Bratislava LGBT+ bar and vocal public support afterwards, members of 🇸🇰's LGBT community remain skeptical about the future, because of the atmosphere of hate that politicians and others have nurtured against them for years
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Bellingcat Monitoring Project
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One of Portugal’s best-known anti-racism campaigners, Mamadou Ba, will face trial for defaming neo-Nazi activist Mario Machado, a man with multiple convictions and prison sentences for extremist violence and related crimes
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