A man charged with the “random” killing of a Toronto man has several online connections to Order of Nine Angles, a group an expert described to VICE News as a “neo-Nazi death cult.” A man who has been arrested and charged with the seemingly random killing of a Muslim man in Toronto appears to have ties to a neo-Nazi occult group. Mohamed-Aslim Zafis, a 58-year-old Muslim man, was sitting outside a Toronto mosque when he attacked and stabbed to death on September 12. He was the second person of colour to be stabbed to death in Toronto over just several days. On Friday police arrested and charged 34-year-old Guilherme (William) Von Neutegem with first-degree murder in connection to Zafis’s death. In a press conference announcing the arrest, Toronto Police Inspector Hank Idsinga said Von Neutegem “simply walked up to (Zafis) and stabbed him.” Police said it is too early to exclude Von Neutegem from the investigation into the killing of Rampreet Singh who was stabbed to death just days earlier.
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“There does not appear to be any motive and there does not appear to be any known relationship between the accused and the victim,” said Idsinga. However, as first reported by the Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN), social media pages connected to Von Neutegem point to a connection to the Nazi-affiliated group known as the Order of Nine Angles or O9A/ONA. Evan Balgord, the Executive Director of the CAHN, described O9A to VICE News as “a neo-Nazi death cult.” “It is kind of concerning that the Toronto Police didn’t draw any connection here,” said Balgord. “Putting aside O9A is not something a lot of people know about, there were other examples of neo-Nazi imagery on his Instagram account. This includes the black sun, which is about as unmistakable (of an) neo-Nazi identifier as a swastika is.” CAHN put out an article of their findings on Friday night. A Toronto Police spokesperson told VICE News they will “not be commenting” on if they’re investigating the connections between Von Neutegem and the neo-Nazi group or if they are planning on investigating the murder as a hate crime. The social media profiles all link back to each other and use both names that police used for Von Neutegem (William and Guilherme.) The age, location, and unique name match up and are all cross-linked. Von Neutegem, at times, uses both William or Guilherme to identify himself on the same social media page. Balgord said to ensure CANH didn’t misidentify someone they checked through databases for multiple William and Guilherme Von Neutegem’s in Toronto to “demonstrate to our to our satisfaction, that that this was the same person.” VICE News followed similar steps to verify.
via vice: ‘Random’ Murder of Muslim Man Linked to ‘Neo-Nazi Death Cult’: Report