Thomas Manch 05:00, Sep 06 2022 PM announces centre for extremism research Play Video STUFF The Government has made plans to set up a research facility to study of ways to prevent violent extremism. A researcher who infiltrated New Zealand’s largest neo-Nazi group, Action Zealandia, says its members are unfit, ill-disciplined and wary of committing violence after attracting public attention. The inside glimpse into the secretive fascist organisation, whose members have previously been arrested for making violent threats and espionage, has revealed six members have military experience, of which two are currently serving. Despite this, Action Zealandia has been described as “ill-disciplined”, with members failing to live up to their “far more extreme” online personas, in a research paper based on an 18-month-long infiltration published in Political Science. The researchers suggest that such “deflating” participation in a group could divert possibly violent extremists away from dangerous behaviour, such as committing terror attacks like the Christchurch mosque attacks in 2019.
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