A 20-year-old man from Honiton with a ‘terrorist mindset’ who ‘obsessively’ researched shooting and firearms online has been jailed for terrorism offences. Tobias Gleed, of no fixed abode, was on Thursday, April 17, jailed for five-and-a-half years after a trial in Hampshire. The court heard how Gleed, then a teenager, discussed murder in relation to skin colour and racism, was referred by his school to the government-led anti-terrorism programme Prevent on the strength of his extreme right-wing views, and arrested for possessing and sharing documents ‘useful’ to terrorists. Andrew Morris, defence, said Gleed’s online discussions were ‘not true’ and were ‘jokey’ and ‘edgy’ chats. Prosecution, Lyndon Harris, said Gleed had a ‘terrorist mindset’. He said: “There is evidence of racist views towards black people and Jewish people. “He has performed Google searches about shooting incidents and in respect of firearms.” Gleed was sent material by other adults the court was told. (…) Gleed admitted being racist from the age of 15 but claimed that was no longer the case. He said he held extreme right-wing views from the age of 17 until his arrest. The court heard how Gleed sent a series of messages online, sharing parts of terrorist publications.
Am 22. März sorgte eine Razzia im Reichsbürger-Milieu für Aufsehen. In Reutlingen wurde dabei ein SEK-Beamter angeschossen, auch in Stuttgart gab es eine Durchsuchung. Die Maßnahmen standen im Zusammenhang mit Terror-Ermittlungen der Bundesanwaltschaft und betrafen vor allem Personen, die im Verfahren als Zeugen geführt werden. Der Schütze von Reutlingen war einer dieser Zeugen. Ein weiterer Mann, dessen Wohnung im Reutlinger Stadtteil Altenburg durchsucht wurde, fiel in der Vergangenheit mit Umsturz- und Gewaltfantasien auf. Und besuchte Querdenker-Demos. Razzia in Reutlingen-Altenburg: Unter dem Radar der Öffentlichkeit Durch die Schüsse auf SEK-Beamte ging die Razzia in Reutlingen-Altenburg am 22. März in Medienberichten eher unter. Die Südwestpresse berichtete zuerst darüber, und legte am 31. März mit einer großen Recherche zu der betroffenen Person nach. „Der Durchsuchte verbreitet gefährliche Hetze“, heißt es darin. Er besuche regelmäßig Querdenker-Demos in der Region und sei bei einer AfD-Veranstaltung im März 2022 als Ordner eingesetzt gewesen. Der Name des Mannes ist unserer Redaktion bekannt. Wie der Südwestpresse wurden auch uns Aufnahmen des Einsatzes zugespielt, die den SEK-Einsatz in Altenburg zeigen. Und Dokumente, die einen eindeutigen Bezug zwischen dem Mann und einem Account beim Messenger-Dienst Telegram herstellen. Auch unsere eigenen Recherchen zeigen, dass vom Account des Mannes in den letzten zwei Jahren in zahlreichen Kanälen dutzende radikale Beiträge abgesetzt wurden. Die Inhalte: Antisemitismus, Morddrohungen, Umsturzpläne. Die Feindbilder: Politiker, Mediziner, Journalisten. (…) Neben den radikalen Äußerungen hängt der Mann offenbar unzähligen Verschwörungserzählungen an: Von QAnon über die Vorstellung einer flachen Erde bis hin zum Reichsbürgertum. Video- und Fotomaterial, dass er in einem bekannten Telegram-Kanal der Reichsbürger-Szene teilte, zeigt ihn mit anderen Personen an einem Bismarck-Denkmal, eine Reichsflagge in der Hand. An anderer Stelle äußert er sich mehrfach antisemitisch, leugnet den Holocaust und gibt Juden die Schuld am Zweiten Weltkrieg.
Poliisi tiedotti viime viikolla, että kaksi alle 15-vuotiasta suunnitteli kolmen ihmisen surmaamista Jämsänkosken yhtenäiskoulussa. Poliisi kertoi viime viikon lopulla tutkivansa vakavaa koulu-uhkausta Jämsässä. Kaksi alle 15-vuotiasta suunnitteli yhden koulun työntekijän ja kahden oppilaan surmaamista Jämsänkosken yhtenäiskoulussa. Poliisin esitutkinnassa on käynyt ilmi, että epäiltyjen laitteissa on ollut suuri määrä ääriajatteluun liittyvää ja väkivaltaa ihannoivaa kuva- ja videomateriaalia. Rikoskomisario Markus Antilan mukaan haitalliselle materiaalille altistumista on tapahtunut useamman kuukauden ajan. Poliisi tutki epäiltyjen tietokoneet ja puhelimet. Epäillyt ovat koulun oppilaita. He keskustelivat suunnitelmastaan keskustelusovellus Discordissa. Asiasta ei ennättänyt aiheutua konkreettista vaaraa. Nuoria epäillään törkeästä henkeen tai terveyteen kohdistuvan rikoksen valmistelusta. Antila kommentoi viime viikolla, että suunnitelmalla oli mahdollisesti vihamotiivi eli motiivi, joka liittyy esimerkiksi uhrien etniseen alkuperään, uskontoon, seksuaaliseen suuntautumiseen tai vammaisuuteen. Nyt hän kertoo, että motiivina näyttää olevan väkivallan ihannointi. Antila kertoo, että epäillyt ovat poimineet aatemaailmasta asioita, ja valinneet kohteet niiden perusteella. – Ääriajattelu on motivoinut keskustelun kohti toisten vahingoittamista ja jopa tappamista.
Der umstrittene Verein Uniter e.V. hat sich 2020 aufgelöst. Doch Mitglieder sind weiter aktiv, wie Recherchen von Report Mainz zeigen. Der Verfassungsschutz hat die Vereinigung im Visier und bewertet sie als “gesichert rechtsextremistisch”. “Lovebomb”, “Assault” oder “Sniper”: Die Namen der Kaffee-Röstungen klingen reißerisch, und doch wirkt der Online-Shop auf den ersten Blick unscheinbar. “Black Ops Coffee” nennt sich die Marke, die mit “starkem Kaffee für echte Helden” wirbt.Hinter der Fassade des Kaffee-Versands hat sich ein Prepper-Netzwerk etabliert, das sich systematisch auf den “Tag X” vorbereitet, also auf den angeblich drohenden Zusammenbruch der staatlichen Ordnung. Kopf der Gruppe ist André S., ein ehemaliger Elite-Soldat der Bundeswehr, der heute nicht nur Kaffee verkauft, sondern auch als Mediator, Profiler und “Experte für Krisenmanagement” sein Geld verdient. Das zeigen Recherchen des ARD-Politikmagazins Report Mainz.Untergangsszenarien und KampftrainingÜber einen Insider hatte Report Mainz monatelang Einblick in die Gruppe, die sich “Black Ops Community” nennt und deren Anhänger sich regelmäßig treffen, etwa zu Online-Kursen und “Community Calls”, in denen André S. das ideologische Fundament der Gruppe legt und “Lagebilder” kommuniziert.Immer wieder geht es um krude Untergangsfantasien, um die feste Überzeugung, dass Deutschland in den kommenden Jahren chaotische Zustände drohten. Flächendeckende Stromausfälle zählen dazu, die das Land zurück ins “Mittelalter” stürzten. Oder eine Invasion extremistischer “Schläfer”, von denen angeblich hunderttausende in Deutschland lebten, eingeschleust vom türkischen Präsidenten Recep Tayyip Erdgan.Waffen im HausInnerhalb der Gruppe geht es immer wieder auch um konkrete Vorbereitungen auf solche Szenarien, zum Beispiel um Bewaffnung. “Ob es die Axt, die Machete oder die Armbrust ist”, rät André S. seinen Anhängern. “Du musst halt irgendwas zu Hause haben, um dich und deine Familie verteidigen zu können.”Fester Bestandteil der Vorbereitungen sind außerdem regelmäßige Nahkampftrainings. Report Mainz liegen Aufnahmen eines solchen Trainings vor. Sie zeigen unter anderem das Üben für die Auseinandersetzung mit der Polizei, etwa wie man aus Polizeikesseln ausbricht, Polizisten entwaffnen und verletzen kann. Laut Kursplan, der Report Mainz vorliegt, soll es in aufbauenden Trainings auch um den aktiven Einsatz von Messern und Schusswaffen gehen. (…) Besonders problematisch sei, dass sich “Black Ops Coffee” gezielt an Personen aus dem Sicherheitsbereich wendet. André S. sucht auch die Nähe zu Ex-Soldaten, wie die Recherchen von Report Mainz zeigen. Das ehemalige Mitglied des Kommando Spezialkräfte der Bundeswehr tritt als Reservist auf, bezeichnete sich öffentlich mehrfach als “Hauptfeldwebel der Reserve”. 2022 lud er mit einem Reservisten-Verein sogar zu einem gemeinsamen Schießwettkampf ein, gerichtet unter anderem an die “Black-Ops-Coffee-Community” und “Soldaten der NATO-Partner”. Der Kopf der Gruppe, André S., ist kein Unbekannter. Er war Mitgründer des umstrittenen Vereins Uniter e.V. Dieser war eigentlich gedacht, um ehemaligen Soldaten beim Weg ins Zivilleben zu helfen. 2018 geriet der Verein in die Öffentlichkeit, weil S. und andere Mitglieder in Verbindung zu einem extremistischen Prepper-Netzwerk gebracht wurden.
The Nazis themselves were murder nerds. Now their successors are LARPing as wizards of racial superiority as they commit very real atrocities—as seen in the recent parent killing in Wisconsin. Deep in northwestern Westphalia, Germany, stands a twelfth-century castle conceived by Heinrich Himmler, leader of the paramilitary Schutzstaffel, as a kind of “Camelot” for the triumphal knights of the Aryan race. The Wewelsburg Castle was also a fantasy nerd’s dream come true. In its bowels lies an occult enclave straight out of Cecil B. DeMille: an Arthurian-style set of catacombs designed to look medieval but actually made of concrete. Above, in the Hall of the Supreme S.S. Leaders, there’s a marble floor inlaid with a design of the Black Sun, or Sonnenrad—a circle containing swastika-like arms that epitomizes Nazi striving to create an idealized Norse-Aryan past for themselves. Himmler started renovations on the castle in the mid-1930s; the Nazi paradise he built was meant to host S.S. ceremonies, such as handing particularly distinguished murderers the Totenkopfring, a ring adorned with the signature S.S. skull but also a variety of quasi-Nordic runes and symbolic oak leaves, designed by Himmler’s personal occultist, a purportedly clairvoyant mystic by the name of Karl Wiligut. The Nazis, in short, were obsessed with legend and magic. Consider the swastika itself: First written about in Germany by the archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann, who discovered the symbol in the ruins of Troy in 1868, the swastika was seized on by Hitler—whose birthday falls on Easter Sunday this year—as emblematic of the idealized, quasi-mythical Aryan race he sought to recreate. More to the point, the Nazis were murder nerds, LARPing as wizards of racial superiority as they committed very real atrocities. And the same is true of their successors today. Partly aping their dead heroes and partly engaged in a similar delusion—self-mythologizing as the scions of an ancient white race—neo-Nazis are a remarkably myth-oriented bunch. This manifests in a lot of different ways, like engaging in werewolf-themed cultic neopaganism or dedicating themselves to Norse gods. Or, in a recent newsworthy example, following the Order of the Nine Angles, a late-twentieth-century neo-Nazi pseudoreligion that seeks to turn its adherents into racially pure Satanic wizards. Earlier this week, a Waukesha, Wisconsin, teenager and devotee of the Order of the Nine Angles, or ONA, was charged with murdering his mother and stepfather and plotting to assassinate President Donald Trump, in order to further the Order’s goals of a world plunged into chaotic violence. “Jewish occupied governments must fall. The white race cannot survive unless America collapses,” the 17-year-old, Nikita Casap, wrote in a manifesto. “Huge amounts of violence will be required.” He called himself a “niner” (a Nine Angles devotee) and encouraged his imitators to read a variety of extremist books. In doing so, Casap drew on nearly a century of blood-drenched legacy in his pairing of violent death with a potent dose of magical thinking. The symbol of the Order of the Nine Angles looks, more than anything, like a mutilated cat’s cradle, just as their ideology is a muddle of inverted myths, profligate cruelty, and pure bigotry. It’s a religion of shock and destruction, and as such, it has appealed particularly to young men—teens seeking to break away from their parents, and aimless mid-twenties men who want to blaze a path of dubious glory by blood. The movement was created in the 1970s by a British neo-Nazi named David Myatt, nicknamed the “Cat Strangler” by his friends because of his affinity for torturing animals. His ideology reflects the charming sobriquet. In 1999, a 22-year-old man reportedly inspired by Myatt’s book A Practical Guide to Aryan Revolution planted bombs embedded with nails in areas frequented by London’s minority and gay communities, injuring 129 people and killing three. In Myatt’s work and speeches, an increasingly elaborate cosmology is paired with direct calls to terrorist action, all in the service of ushering in an eschatological race war. Affiliated with the so-called “Left-Hand Path” of magic—dark or black magic—the ONA offers such occult hokum as a world divided into the seven branches of the “Tree of Wyrd,” a creator deity named Vindex, and individual cells called “nexions.”
Neo-Nazis lean so heavily on myth because their ideology is prima facie absurd; the purported oppression of whites needs tortuous, even mythological explanations to ring remotely true. From @swordsjew.bsky.social: newrepublic.com/article/1939…
Revulsion at deadly Oklahoma City explosion in 1995 has faded. But echoes of the blast, and its perpetrator, Timothy McVeigh, are heard today as far-right ideas storm the US. The world’s first reaction to the young military veteran and far-right radical who blew up a federal building in Oklahoma City 30 years ago this month was near-universal revulsion at the carnage he created and at the ideology that inspired it. A crowd yelled “baby killer” – and worse – as 26-year-old Timothy McVeigh was led away in chains from a courthouse in rural Oklahoma where the FBI caught up with him two days after the bombing. He had the same crew cut he’d sported in his army days and stone cold eyes. An hour and a half’s drive to the south, 168 people lay dead, most of them office workers who had been providing government services, along with 19 young children in a day care centre directly above the spot where McVeigh parked his moving truck packed with ammonium nitrate and other explosives. The children were, most likely, his prime target. (…) Fast-forward those 30 years, and the movement is not only very much revived but has moved from the outer fringes of American politics to the very centre. McVeigh wanted to strike at what he saw as a corrupt, secretive cabal running the US government – what Donald Trump and his acolytes refer to as the Deep State and are now busy dismantling. McVeigh believed the US had no business extending its influence around the world or becoming entangled in foreign wars when white working-class Americans from industrial cities such as Buffalo, his home town, were suffering – an early expression of Trump’s America First ideology, which won him tens of millions of blue-collar votes last November. McVeigh’s favourite book, a white supremacist power fantasy called The Turner Diaries, blamed a cabal of Jews, black people and internationalists for perverting America’s true destiny – a sentiment now finding coded expression in Trump’s twin wars on immigration and on diversity, equity and inclusion. McVeigh believed it was up to ordinary citizens like him to take up arms and fight against a tyrannical ruling order, no matter the cost in innocent lives, because that was what the country’s founders had done during the American civil war. The T-shirt he wore when he was arrested carried a quote from Thomas Jefferson: “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” During the Capitol riot on 6 January 2021, the QAnon-friendly Republican congresswoman Lauren Boebert expressed much the same sentiment as she cheered on the rioters smashing and bloodying their way past uniformed police officers into the halls of Congress. “Today is 1776,” she tweeted. The parallels have not been lost on political veterans of the 1990s. Clinton himself observed in a recent HBO documentary: “The words [McVeigh] used, the arguments he made, literally sound like the mainstream today. Like he won!” The threat the far right poses to the US government is no longer a physical one – not when it comes to the executive branch, anyway – since the radicals intent on cleaning house now have like-minded leaders such as Trump and Elon Musk doing it from the inside. It’s hard to imagine McVeigh, who was executed by lethal injection in 2001, objecting to the administration’s campaign to hollow out the international aid agency, kick career prosecutors and government watchdogs out of the Department of Justice, or vow to refashion “broken” institutions such as the FBI.
The FBI said they are seeing a sharp increase in the 764 Members of Violent Online Networks targeting young people with the goal of coercing them into recording or even live-streaming acts of self-harm. The FBI is warning parents about a disturbing online trend targeting teens. Internet strangers are trying to coerce minors into harming themselves. The FBI said they are seeing a sharp increase in the 764 Members of Violent Online Networks, which are internet strangers targeting young people to coerce them into recording or even live-streaming acts of self-harm. “Parents and educators, we here at FBI Richmond want to tell you about an alarming trend we’re seeing that’s affecting our children,” FBI Richmond Special Agent in Charge Stanley Meador said. It’s a trend that’s been rapidly growing since 2022. Meador said these violent networks are targeting young people online with a desire to cause fear and chaos through them. “What we’ve seen anything that involves sending what we call child sex abuse materials, nude photos of young people to things as severe as getting young people to carve their abuser’s name into their skin and photograph that,” Meador said. Meador said these extremist groups will also extort victims into sharing anything related to animal cruelty, violence to others, and even suicide.
