Alex Davies, described in court as the ‘biggest Nazi of the lot’, found to have remained in the group after it was banned. The founder of a violent neo-Nazi group created to inspire a race war in the UK is facing jail after being found guilty of continuing to be a member of the organisation after it was banned. Alex Davies, 27, who was described in court as the “biggest Nazi of the lot”, formed the group National Action (NA) when he was a teenager and acted as its main recruiter. Members of NA armed themselves with machetes, swords, firearms and crossbows as they plotted “white jihad” across the UK. One man associated with the group was jailed for planning to kill an MP and another was in close contact with a man imprisoned for a racist machete attack on an Asian dentist. Other members took part in provocative rallies up and down the country, dressed in black, delivering Nazi-style salutes and carrying flags with slogans such as “Hitler was right”. Davies, from Swansea, south Wales, caused outrage in 2016 when he posed holding an NA flag and giving the Nazi salute in the execution chamber of the Buchenwald concentration camp. NA was banned in December 2016 after posting “congratulatory” tweets after the murder of the MP Jo Cox, becoming the first far-right group to be proscribed in the UK since the second world war. But Winchester crown court heard that Davies set up the “continuity group” NS131 – National Socialist Anti-Capitalist Action – to try to circumvent the ban. Barnaby Jameson QC, prosecuting, told the jury that NS131 used the same Nazi imagery as NA and had the same Nazi ideology.
via guardian: Neo-Nazi group National Action’s founder faces jail after guilty verdict