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#Opposition drängt auf konsequentere #Strafverfolgung jugendlicher Rechtsextremisten – #terror #totenwaffen #FeuerkriegDivision #FKD

Mit 16 Jahren gründet Lukas F. die rechtsterroristische Chatgruppe „Totenwaffen“. Dort tauscht er sich mit Gleichgesinnten aus, plant selbst einen Terrorakt. Er ist Teil eines internationalen Netzwerks, in dem sich Jugendliche gefunden haben und radikalisieren. Über verdeckte Chatgruppen verbinden sich Jugendliche mit rechtsextremistischen Ansichten weltweit – und stacheln sich gegenseitig zu Terroranschlägen an. CDU und Linke fordern nun ein konsequenteres Vorgehen der Strafverfolgungsbehörden. Sie finden einander im Netz, schließen sich in verdeckten Chatgruppen zusammen und stacheln einander mit Nazi-Propaganda an – bis manche von ihnen als Terroristen zur Tat schreiten: Die Bedrohung durch globale Netzwerke Jugendlicher mit rechtsextremistischer Einstellung wächst. Eine Recherchekooperation des Axel-Springer-Verlags mit Reportern von WELT und den US-Medien POLITICO und INSIDER legt offen, wie diese Netzwerke agieren und wie groß die Bedrohung ist, die von ihnen ausgeht. So wurden etwa Mitgliedern der vor allem in den USA und Europa aktiven Chatgruppe „Feuerkrieg Division“, die von einem Elfjährigen in Estland ins Leben gerufen wurde, seit 2019 mindestens sechs geplante oder versuchte Anschläge auf beiden Kontinenten zugerechnet. Als Lukas F. eine Bombe zündet, ist er 16 Jahre alt Im Fall einer anderen Chatgruppe namens „Totenwaffen“ wurde der 16-jährige Gründer aus Potsdam kürzlich verhaftet, nachdem er Monate zuvor auf einem verlassenen Gelände zwei Bomben gezündet hatte. Den Recherchen der Zeitungen zufolge brüstete er sich in seinem internen Chat damit, zu „üben“. Er äußerte auch Überlegungen, eine Bombe bei einer Rede der damaligen Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel zu zünden. (…) Es sei keine Ausnahme mehr, dass „Minderjährige Gewalt befürworten oder sogar selbst Gewalttaten planen“. In Deutschland gebe es eine „Attentäter-Fanszene“, so Haldenwang, aus der sich „Nachahmer rechtsterroristischer Attentäter entwickeln können“. Nun fordert die Opposition eine konsequentere Strafverfolgung bei jugendlichen Mitgliedern solcher Netzwerke, die Anschläge planen.

via welt: Opposition drängt auf konsequentere Strafverfolgung jugendlicher Rechtsextremisten

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Inside an international network of teenage neo-Nazi extremists – #TheBase #AtomwaffenDivision #AWD #FeuerkriegDivision #FKD #Christchurch #terror

Last year, a 20-year-old named Christian Michael Mackey arrived at the Phillips 66 gas station in Grand Prairie, Texas, hoping to sell his AM-15 rifle to make some quick cash. He’d said he wanted to buy a more powerful gun, something that could stop what he called a “hoard of you know what.” Mackey told an online group chat he’d started looking at Nazi websites at around 15-years-old, when he began spending hours on white nationalist message boards and talking to other extremists on Instagram and encrypted messaging apps like Telegram. Five years later, he was active in a network of violent neo-Nazi groups that organized and communicated through online group chats. He described himself as a “radical Jew slayer.” When Mackey met his buyer in the gas-station parking lot in January 2021, he didn’t know he had walked into a sting. The woman purchasing his rifle was a paid FBI source with numerous felonies, and Mackey was arrested as soon as the gun changed hands. At his detention hearing a month later, an FBI agent said authorities had found a pipe bomb in Mackey’s parents’ house, where he lived. Mackey’s stepfather told local news soon after the arrest that his stepson had been radicalized online, and footage showed him ripping up a copy of “Mein Kampf” in Mackey’s bedroom. FBI records and court documents indicated that Mackey had posted more than 2,400 messages in one neo-Nazi Instagram group chat alone, and had told another user “I’m just trying to live long enough to die attacking.” (…) Canadian authorities earlier this year arrested a 19-year-old on terrorism charges after they say he tried to join a neo-Nazi group similar to the ones Mackey was involved in. In April, a 15-year-old in Denmark was charged with recruiting for a neo-Nazi organization banned in the country. A 16-year-old became the UK’s youngest terrorism offender after joining that same group, where he researched terror manuals and discussed how to make explosives. Others made it further along in their plots, like a 21-year-old who planted a bomb outside the Western Union office in Lithuania’s capital, Vilnius. (…) Experts trace the origins of groups like these to a neo-Nazi website called Iron March that went offline in 2017, and which notoriously helped extremists from many countries forge international connections and spread accelerationist propaganda.  The ideology has been linked to the 2019 Christchurch massacre in New Zealand, where a white nationalist killed 51 people at two mosques while livestreaming the attack online, and a shooting earlier this year at a supermarket in Buffalo, NY where 10 people were killed. As part of a joint investigation that Insider undertook with Welt Am Sonntag and Politico, reporters gained access to two dozen internal chat groups linked to a broader network of neo-Nazi accelerationists. Comprising 98,000 messages from about 900 users, the data includes photos, videos, text, and voice messages.

via inside: Inside an international network of teenage neo-Nazi extremists

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Neo-Nazi group teen found with #Nazi #dagger, #Swastika armband and #SS hat – #terror #fkd #FeuerkriegDivision

A member of a banned white supremacist group has pleaded guilty to terrorism offences. Luca Benincasa, 19, is the first person to be convicted of belonging to the Feuerkrieg Division (FKD) since the far-right organisation was banned in July 2020. A Nazi dagger and SS officer’s hat were among items discovered in his bedroom in Cardiff during a police raid. Appearing at Winchester Crown Court on Friday, Benincasa pleaded guilty to membership of the FKD and four counts of collecting information likely to be of use to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism on or before February 1 2022. The banned terrorist group, which primarily exists online, is said to promote violence and mass murder in the pursuit of a race war. SS officer’s uniform and Swastika armband A flag depicting the logo of the SS, Adolf Hitler’s paramilitary organisation, was hanging on Benincasa’s bedroom wall alongside a fascist Italian flag when police conducted a raid on February 1 this year.

via itv: Neo-Nazi group teen found with Nazi dagger, Swastika armband and SS hat

siehe auch: Cardiff teen admits part in banned neo-Nazi terror group . Luca Benincasa was a “prominent member” of the Feuerkrieg Division, prosecution said A teenager has pleaded guilty to being a member of a banned fascist group. Luca Benincasa, 19, from the Whitchurch area of Cardiff, admitted belonging to the white supremacy group after it was outlawed in July 2020. A Nazi dagger and Schutzstaffel (SS) officer’s hat were among the items found when police raided his bedroom in February earlier this year. Benincasa also admitted four counts of collecting information likely to be useful to a terrorist. The Feuerkrieg Division primarily exists online and is said to promote violence and mass murder in the pursuit of a race war.

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‘I mean you no harm’: From troubled teen to neo-Nazi foot soldier – #terror #fkd #FeuerkriegDivision #accelerationism

How a global white supremacist movement is recruiting American teenagers. When Conor Climo was winning plaudits for his sharp intellect in Arbor View High School’s class of 2014, no one imagined he would soon be storing bomb-making material in his bedroom closet in preparation for a race war in the name of Adolf Hitler. “He knew every element in the periodic table,” recalled classmate Lexi Epley. Climo was a friendly, smart kid but as he grew into a lanky teen with a military-style haircut he became increasingly isolated, angry and — to some classmates — unstable. (…) It was after graduation that Climo, who lived with family at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac, found the community he lacked: a violent global movement hidden in the dark recesses of the internet bent on igniting a neo-Nazi race war, according to public documents, court records, law enforcement officials, and fellow classmates. For more than a year, reporters from POLITICO, the German newspaper Welt and Insider uncovered the inner workings of this increasingly violent movement, drawn from nearly two dozen chat groups, more than 98,000 text and chat messages — including photos and videos — and interviews with members. The data offers a rare peek into a burgeoning network of neo-Nazis threatening to kill politicians and journalists, providing instruction on how to build bombs and weapons with 3D printers, and encouraging each other to attack houses of worship, the gay community and people of color. It’s what extremism researchers call “militant accelerationism” — a movement to spark a war for white power. There are dozens of these groups on both sides of the Atlantic with martial names drawn from Nazi propaganda. Many followers have been influenced by the writings of James Mason, the 69-year-old Coloradan who joined an American Nazi party at age 14 and whose books and newsletter are considered modern-day Mein Kampfs for adherents. Climo was drawn to The Feuerkrieg Division, which translates into “fire war,” a moniker inspired by the torchlight marches at Nazi rallies in 1930s Germany. FKD is believed to have been established in 2018 in Estonia and was thought to have quickly petered out. But there’s been a resurgence in the last few years, according to law enforcement officials and experts in domestic extremist groups.

via politico: ‘I mean you no harm’: From troubled teen to neo-Nazi foot soldier

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US #solider pleads guilty to plotting #rampage with neo-Nazi occultists – #terror #OrderOfNineAngles #O9A #RapeWaffenDivision #RWD #AtomWaffenDivision #AWD #FeuerKriegDivision #FKD

The admission to murder conspiracy and three counts of terrorism heads off what was to be a jury trial early next month. An Army paratrooper with ties to a neo-Nazi occult group pleaded guilty Friday to charges that he aimed to ignite a race war beginning with a plot to massacre fellow U.S. soldiers in his platoon. Ethan Melzer was arrested in June 2020 after sending sensitive information about the location, movements and security measures of his regiment in encrypted messages to members of a group called Order of Nine Angles. The Counter Extremism Project says the Order of Nine Angles is full of neo-Nazi-Satanists whose nihilistic ideology “supports violent jihadist terrorism, in line with its accelerationist philosophy to support the destruction of the current world order.” Facing possible life imprisonment on eight counts., the 24-year-old Army private from Louisville, Kentucky, was set to go to a jury trial after the Fourth of July holiday weekend. Melzer had pleaded not guilty in 2020 but changed his tune Friday afternoon, offering guilty pleas on three counts in connection with leaking his Army unit’s overseas location to an occultist fascist group that has deep ties to neo-Nazism, with the intention to facilitate a “mass-casualty” attack against his comrades. The three counts to which Melzer pleaded guilty are attempting to murder U.S. service members, providing and attempting to provide material support to terrorists, and illegally transmitting national defense information. Melzer’s indictment says he communicated with members of his neo-Nazi group through the Rapewaffen Division Channel on the encrypted messaging service Telegram, plotting an attack on U.S. soldiers in the 173rd Airborne Brigade when it was set for deployment from Camp Ederle in Vicenza, Italy, to a base in Turkey.

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siehe auch: The Rapewaffen Telegram Channel. An American soldier Ethan Phelan Melzer was indicted yesterday over a plot to collaborate with neo-Nazi Satanist group Order of Nine Angles (O9A) to murder “as many of his fellow service members as possible”. Melzer engaged with a group active on Telegram calling itself “RapeWaffen”. In our annual ‘State of Hate’ report published earlier this year, we covered the channel and called for action from Telegram and from the authorities. After the indictment of Melzer, the channel announced that it would disband, but this should be treated cautiously as the group has disappeared before only to later return after a short period. RapeWaffen is one of the channels on Telegram that most clearly identifies itself as a part of O9A. As the name suggests, the group actively promotes rape and sexual violence, alongside general calls for brutality more common among Terrorgram channels (a set of channels on Telegram that promotes terrorism). The group represents some of the most extreme content on Telegram, putting its calls for violence in recognisable O9A terms, and expressing sadism, amorality and the “need to dehumanize themselves and face the bloodshed”. Another post says: “by the Order of The 9 Angels [sic] I will do my best to fulfill the prophecy of the Rape War, heil Rape”. (…) Notably, the channel’s founder has also repeatedly claimed that RapeWaffen is a splinter group of the American nazi terror group Atomwaffen Division (AWD), but he has made AWD’s support for O9A and sexual violence more explicit, thereby finding a way to make it even more abominable. In a message in another far-right chat group, he also described how he attempted to spread his ideas to existing far-right terror groups, saying that he had “slowly been Rapepilling the FKD”, referring to the now disbanded Feuerkrieg Division.

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To drenge på 15 og 16 terrorsigtet for at lade sig hverve til voldelig nynazistisk gruppe – #FeuerkriegDivision #FKD

De to drenge anklages for at tilhøre den højreradikale gruppe Feuerkrieg Division. To drenge på henholdsvis 15 og 16 år er sigtet for at have ladet sig hverve til en terrorgruppe. Det kom frem under et grundlovsforhør i Retten i Holbæk torsdag. Den ene af de to drenge er desuden sigtet efter paragraf 114c, der drejer sig om at hverve andre til at begå eller fremme terrorhandlinger. Den 15-årige er sigtet for at have været en del af den højreradikale gruppe Feuerkrieg Division fra 11. december 2021 til 1. marts 2022, som anklagemyndigheden anser som værende en terrorgruppe. Han skulle ifølge Ritzau være hvervet gennem den krypterede beskedtjeneste Telegram. 11. december indsendte han ifølge DR’s oplysninger en ansøgning om indmeldelse. Han fortalte ifølge anklagemyndigheden, at han havde kendskab til våben og eksplosiver. Den 15-årige er også sigtet for at hverve den 16-årige. Den 16-årige meldte sig ind i gruppen 13. januar. Han er ligeledes sigtet for at have været del af Feuerkrieg Division frem til 1. marts. De to drenge blev ifølge Ritzau anholdt tidlig torsdag morgen.

via dr.dk: To drenge på 15 og 16 terrorsigtet for at lade sig hverve til voldelig nynazistisk gruppe

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#Terrorpläne: #Oberpfälzer Rechtsextremist muss ins Gefängnis – #fkd #FeuerkriegDivision

Ein Rechtsextremist aus dem Landkreis Cham muss für zwei Jahre ins Gefängnis, weil er sich im Internet mit Gleichgesinnten über Terrorpläne ausgetauscht hat. Ein entsprechendes Urteil des Landgerichts Nürnberg-Fürth ist jetzt rechtskräftig. Das deutschlandweit erste Urteil gegen ein mutmaßliches Mitglied der international agierenden rechtsextremen Gruppe “Feuerkrieg Division” ist rechtskräftig. Der 23 Jahre alte Angeklagte aus dem Landkreis Cham habe die Revision gegen das im Dezember verhängte Urteil zurückgenommen, teilte das Oberlandesgericht Nürnberg am Montag mit. Damit muss der Mann für zwei Jahre ohne Bewährung in Haft. Außerdem hatte das Gericht eine Führungsaufsicht für den psychisch auffälligen Mann angeordnet. Der Mann aus dem Landkreis Cham war in rechtsextremen Chatgruppen unterwegs. Die Anklage gegen ihn lautete auf Vorbereitung einer schweren staatsgefährdenden Gewalttat, weil er ab Mai 2019 angefangen hatte, sich zu bewaffnen. Zudem hatte er in der etwa 30- bis 40-köpfigen Chatgruppe einen Austausch über mögliche Anschläge begonnen. (…) Der junge Mann soll ein führendes Mitglied der deutschen Zelle der “Feuerkrieg Division” gewesen sein, einer weltweit vernetzten, rechtsextremistischen Gruppe. Die Vereinigung soll zeitweise in rund 15 Ländern aktiv gewesen sein.

via br: Terrorpläne: Oberpfälzer Rechtsextremist muss ins Gefängnis

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