Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood asked on Twitter, “Anyone noticing a trend with these losers?” Yet another racist 4chan poster who lives with his mother has been arrested for allegedly threatening to kill an anti-Nazi sheriff. Tyler Myer, a 30-year-old San Diego man, was arrested this weekend and charged with making a written threat to kill or injure Volusia County, Florida, Sheriff Mike Chitwood. The threat allegedly written by Myer was posted on the /pol/ board of 4chan, according to the Volusia Sheriff's Office announcement of the arrest. “It’s too bad Mike Chitwood isn’t safe now that I’m planning to kill him. I’m going to shoot Mike Chitwood,” read the post. “I’m going to kill him by shooting him to death.” The /pol/ board is home to an irony-poisoned, violent, racist community that’s been connected to mass killings and neo-Nazi organizing. One of the community’s current obsessions is Chitwood, who became the subject of numerous threats from online neo-Nazis after his impassioned stand against a rash of neo-Nazi activity in his area went viral online. VICE News located the threatening message. The threat against Chitwood was written on March 15 in response to the arrest of a 4chan user in New Jersey (who also lived with his mom) for threatening Chitwood. Alongside the message was an image of a My Little Pony character dressed as a Nazi and pointing a gun.
Alek Yewbury sports a clipped moustache and waxed-down hair – just like his twisted Nazi hero. Bookmark Comments 48 NEWS ByJon BradyReporter 04:30, 5 APR 2023 Hadden Adam with Alek Yerbury. A leading member of a neo-Nazi group operating in Scotland has been “forging new loyalties” with an English activist who styles himself on Adolf Hitler. In one picture, Hadden Adam, a member of far-right outfit Highland Division, is shown meeting Alek Yerbury – a Hitler lookalike who is a member of fascist organisation the British Movement. Campaign groups have since slammed the meeting as “repulsive” and “concerning”. Adam is seen shaking hands with trenchcoat-wearing Yerbury, who also sports a clipped moustache and waxed-down hair – just like his twisted Nazi hero. The caption on the image, shared by Highland Division in an underground encrypted chat group, reads: “One of our activists met up with several other nationalist groups including the British Movement and some independent nationalists. Forging new loyalties…unite the right.” The post suggests that Highland Division is seeking to make new connections with other white supremacist groups that operate in closed communities online. It is understood the gathering took place in March, but it is unclear where it was held. A Record probe last November uncovered Highland Division, who shamelessly co-opted the identity of a former British Army infantry that fought the Nazis in the Battle of Normandy. It operates within an underworld of neo-Nazi groups using an encrypted chat platform to recruit hateful racists.
White supremacist groups like Atomwaffen, which also goes by the name "National Socialist Order," are looking to recruit U.S. military members to help carry out terrorist attacks against minorities, according to experts speaking to Military.com. In its annual 2023 threat assessment released in March, the U.S. intelligence declared that racially or ethnically motivated violent extremism is the "most lethal threat to Americans." It highlighted groups that believe "recruiting military members will help them organize cells for attacks against minorities or institutions that oppose their ideology." "New extremist organizations such as Atomwaffen, the Boogaloo movement and the Base, a neo-Nazi group, have picked up where the anti-government militias of the '80s and '90s left off," the report said. "They seek a violent overthrow of the government or a civil war so they can recreate society, usually into a white supremacist or fascist state. The accelerationist groups -- the term denotes that they wish to bring about that civil war swiftly -- have sprung up in the aftermath of the Unite the Right extremist group gathering and protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017. The event was the largest gathering of white supremacists in recent memory, and many of the torch-bearing participants were young men." But the fallout from Charlottesville -- which resulted in a young leftist protester getting killed -- sent the white supremacist movement into disarray. Rick Eaton, a senior researcher and the head of the digital terrorism and hate research team at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, said event caused radicals to look elsewhere towards "more active and dangerous paths, such as we've seen in the Hard Reset."
Recently, Croatian MEPs have organised events in Brussels appearing to gloss over controversial issues linked to terrorism and Nazi collaborators from Croatian history. Željana Zovko, a representative from the Croatian Democratic Union, or HDZ, attended a seminar last week as part of the European People Party group series of events at the European Parliament. According to the panel's premise, they would focus on the secret services of former communist nations, since "totalitarian regimes of the past may no longer exist, but their secret services and networks live on," said Zovko. The event featured a presentation by Zdravka Bušić, a member of the Croatian National Resistance or Otpor during the 1970s, a far-right organisation responsible for several terrorist attacks across the world. “I’m sure she [Bušić] will contribute significantly to this seminar with her deep knowledge and personal experience on this issue,” Zovko continued. Otpor was founded by Vjekoslav "Maks" Luburić, the notoriously brutal head of several concentration camps found in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), a Nazi puppet state that briefly on the territory of today’s Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and parts of Serbia during World War II. Zdravka's brother took part in the hijacking of Trans World Airlines plane in September 1976 heading from New York to Chicago and planted a bomb in Grand Central Station in New York City, demanding a plea for Croatia's independence not be published in leading US papers. The plane was rerouted to Montreal and then to Newfoundland, where 35 passengers were released. After negotiations with the US ambassador in Paris, the attackers surrendered. A New York policeman was killed dismantling the bomb and the perpetrators were convicted of air piracy.
“Our research suggests that this looting is state-sponsored by Russia,” said a researcher at the Smithsonian Institution, which is preparing a report on the massive scale of the theft. Last fall, Ukrainian troops were closing in on Kherson, rolling back Russian forces who had seized the city after Moscow launched its invasion of Ukraine. At Kherson’s Regional Art Museum, a team of armed Russians in civilian clothes arrived along with several large trucks and buses. Over five days, they hauled away more than 11,000 pieces of art, including paintings, sculptures, graphics and other works from Ukraine and around the world, said Alina Dotsenko, the director of the museum.
The picture was ‘unnecessarily offensive,’ the Dutch public prosecutor said. Pepijn van Houwelingen, of the populist Forum for Democracy Party (FVD), will have to pay a €450 fine. A Dutch far-right lawmaker has been fined for publishing an edited photo of two government ministers next to a Nazi flag, the Netherlands’ Public Prosecution Service said in a statement Thursday. Pepijn van Houwelingen, of the populist Forum for Democracy Party (FVD), will have to pay a €450 fine. “After studying the file, the Public Prosecution Service concludes that this constitutes an insult from a legal point of view,” the statement read, adding that the picture was “unnecessarily offensive.” Last September, van Houwelingen posted a picture showing the Dutch health minister, Ernst Kuipers, lifting a flag showcasing UN Sustainable Development Goals, as well as an edited version of the same image in which a Nazi flag had been added.
Eine Studie zeigt, dass sexuelle Übergriffe zum Alltag der Frauen in Sachsen gehören. Im Schnitt wurde jede dritte Frau schon vergewaltigt. Fast 90 Prozent von rund 1.300 befragten Frauen in Sachsen wurden in ihrem Leben schon mal gegen ihren Willen an intimen Stellen berührt, 70 Prozent davon mehrfach. Nahezu alle Befragten haben sexuelle Belästigungen wie aufdringliche Blicke, Hinterherpfeifen oder obszöne Sprüche erlebt. Das sind Ergebnisse der ersten sachsenweiten Dunkelfeldstudie „Viktimisierung von Frauen durch häusliche Gewalt, Stalking und sexualisierte Gewalt“, die Sachsens Gleichstellungsministerin Katja Meier (Grüne) am Donnerstag in Dresden vorgestellt hat. Für die Studie, die die Hochschule Merseburg durchgeführt hat, wurden von Mai bis Oktober 2022 Frauen im Alter zwischen 16 und 74 Jahren anonym per Online-Fragebogen befragt. Die Forscher:innen wollten nicht nur wissen, welche Erfahrungen die Frauen mit sexueller Belästigung, Gewalt und Stalking gemacht haben, sondern auch, wie hoch sie das Risiko einschätzen, Opfer solcher Delikte zu werden. Darüber hinaus fragten sie die Betroffenen sexualisierter Gewalt, ob sie die Taten angezeigt oder ob sie selbst anschließend professionelle Hilfe in Anspruch genommen haben. Wie die Erhebung zeigt, fürchten sich viele der befragten Frauen davor, in der Öffentlichkeit sexuell belästigt zu werden. Fast die Hälfte der 16- bis 30-Jährigen verzichtet deswegen häufig oder sehr häufig darauf, bestimmte Kleidung zu tragen. 47 Prozent aus dieser Altersgruppe gaben an, aus Angst um ihre Sicherheit nach einer Veranstaltung so gut wie nie alleine nach Hause zu gehen. Tendenziell verzichteten jüngere Frauen häufiger auf bestimmte Verhaltensweisen als ältere Frauen, heißt es in der Studie. Nicht nur in der Öffentlichkeit, auch im Internet erleben Frauen sexuelle Belästigung oder sexualisierte Gewalt. Die Hälfte der Befragten teilte mit, schon mal unerwünschte Nachrichten oder Penisbilder erhalten zu haben. Von sieben Prozent der Frauen wurden intime Bilder oder Videos gegen ihren Willen online veröffentlicht. 30 Prozent der Befragten wurden vergewaltigt Besonders alarmierend sind die Zahlen der versuchten und vollendeten Vergewaltigungen. 30 Prozent gaben an, schon mindestens einmal in ihrem Leben vergewaltigt worden zu sein. 51 Prozent haben der Studie zufolge mindestens einen Vergewaltigungsversuch erlebt, 27 Prozent davon mehrere. Die Täter:innen seien fast ausschließlich Männer gewesen, der Tatort meist das eigene Wohnumfeld, schreiben die Autor:innen. Sowohl bei den versuchten als auch bei den vollendeten Vergewaltigungen seien (Ex-)Partner:innen die meistgenannten Täter, gefolgt von Bekannten, Freund:innen und Familienmitgliedern.
siehe dazu auch: Gleichstellungsministerin Katja Meier stellt die erste sachsenweite »Dunkelfeldstudie zur Viktimisierung von Frauen durch häusliche Gewalt, Stalking und sexualisierte Gewalt« vor Geschlechtsspezifische Gewalt gegen Frauen ist eine Menschenrechtsverletzung – und sie kommt tagtäglich in allen gesellschaftlichen Schichten vor, in allen Altersgruppen – auch in Sachsen. Um belastbare Zahlen zur Situation von gewaltbetroffenen Frauen in Sachsen zu erheben, hat das Sächsische Staatsministerium der Justiz und für Demokratie, Europa und Gleichstellung (SMJusDEG) die »Dunkelfeldstudie zur Viktimisierung von Frauen durch häusliche Gewalt, Stalking und sexualisierte Gewalt« (VisSa-Studie) in Auftrag gegeben. Am Donnerstag, den 6. April, stellte Gleichstellungsministerin Katja Meier gemeinsam mit dem Projektleiter der Studie, Prof. Dr. Heinz-Jürgen Voß, Hochschule Merseburg, die Ergebnisse dieser ersten sachsenweiten Erhebung vor. Gleichstellungsministerin Katja Meier: »Geschlechtsspezifische Gewalt gegen Frauen ist kein Randphänomen. Die blanken Zahlen sprechen da für sich. Wir sehen das in der aktuellen Kriminalitätsstatistik und das zeigen uns auch schon vorhergegangene Studien anderer Bundesländer. Ich bin sehr froh, dass wir nun erstmals konkrete Zahlen haben für Sachsen und damit Licht ins Dunkel bringen können. Diese Studie ist eine wichtige Grundlage, um präventiv zu arbeiten und Maßnahmen zu entwickeln, mit denen wir gezielt auf die Bedarfe von Menschen eingehen können, die von häuslicher oder sexualisierter Gewalt oder Stalking betroffen sind.«