Right-wing extremism is greater threat to school children than Islamist extremism, #terror experts say

It comes despite the independent review into the Prevent counter-terror scheme due to be published this afternoon warning that more resources should be spent tackling Islamist radicalisation. Last month, 20-year-old Luca Benincasa from Cardiff was sentenced to nine years in jail after pleading guilty to a range of terror offences. The self-proclaimed “cell leader” of a proscribed neo-Nazi group was arrested in January last year after police raided his home in Whitchurch. They found a haul of extremist material including Nazi flags, airsoft rifles and documents on how to make explosives. During last month’s trial at Winchester Crown Court, the judge was told that Benincasa got sucked into the far-right while spending time online during lockdown. The court heard that the then-19-year-old “became increasingly detached”, started identifying as an “incel”, and began to recruit other teenagers into terrorism online. (…) Recruiters now lurk on gaming forums, chat rooms and the comment sections of popular apps to target people as young as 13, while algorithms on platforms such as TikTok send youngsters into increasingly polarised “echo chambers” of racist thinking.

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