Matthew Cronjager, who joined the boy’s group, had been jailed for plotting a terrorist attack. A UK extremist group run by a teenage boy who once threatened to blow up a mosque, included a neo-Nazi who faces a lengthy jail sentence for plotting a terrorist attack. The boy, now 16, set up The British Hand, a far-right group, when he was 14 and ran it on Telegram, the encrypted social media site. He vetted others in private chat groups where they talked about “doing something” against ethnic minorities, and discussed weapons, Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard. “I am planning a [sic] attack against the Dover coast where every Muslim and refugee has been given safey [sic] if your [sic] interested tell me now,” he wrote in one post. (…) The 18-year-old neo-Nazi, from Essex, tried to get hold of a 3D printed gun to kill his teenage target, whom he likened to a cockroach. Prosecutor Alistair Richardson said Cronjager is facing a jail sentence in “double figures” after being convicted of preparing for acts of terrorism and disseminating terrorist publications on Telegram, having previously admitted four charges of possessing terrorist documents. (…) The boy received a caution in September 2019 for sending pictures of bombs to a fellow school pupil over Snapchat. He has previous convictions for a hate crime, after threatening to blow up a mosque on January 20 last year, and assaulting an emergency worker, by attacking a police officer who went to his home. The court heard that he also made a string of phone calls to mosques in London and was twice referred to the government’s Prevent de-radicalisation programme.
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siehe auch: Two neo-Nazis, 16, who wanted to ‘bomb London because it isn’t English’ and ran extremist right-wing group on Telegram after going down a ‘twisted rabbit hole’ in lockdown are spared jail. Boy A, 16, admitted founding extremist right-wing group called The British Hand
In one post he told members he was planning an attack ‘against the Dover coast’. Group included second 16-year-old who admitted sharing extremist propaganda. Court heard they had gone down ‘twisted rabbit hole’ during Covid-19 lockdown. Both teens were spared custody after admitting terrorist offences at court today with magistrate saying he changed his mind at 11pm the night before hearing. Two teenage Neo-Nazis who wanted to ‘bomb London because it wasn’t English’ and ran an extremist right-wing group online were spared jail today One 16-year-old boy set up the group, called The British Hand, which included a member who plotted a terror attack, it can now be revealed. The teenager, referred to as Boy A and from south Derbyshire, ran the group from August 5 last year, when he was just 14, on the encrypted Telegram app. He appeared for sentencing at Westminster Magistrates’ Court alongside another 16-year-old boy – Boy B – who was a member of The British Hand and also accused of sharing terrorist propaganda. The court heard previously that the teenagers went down a ‘twisted rabbit hole’ in the first lockdown when they spent a ‘concerning’ amount of time online being radicalised by other young extremists.