A member of the Australian Defence Force who attended training sessions with the neo-Nazi National Socialist Network was allegedly found with child abuse and right-wing extremist material on devices stored at his Holsworthy Barracks accommodation. Jonathan Salter, 25, was refused bail in the NSW Supreme Court this week, facing a series of charges over accessing and possessing child abuse and far-right extremist material after investigators allegedly found “extensive messages and files” showing his support for “white supremacy, Nazi ideology and violent extremism”. Prosecutors also allege Salter possessed multiple “exceptionally serious examples” of child abuse material, including children as young as one being horrifically abused. According to court files obtained by this masthead, police allege Salter repeatedly visited sites hosting the video of the Christchurch massacre, in which 51 worshippers were murdered at two mosques in New Zealand by an Australian white supremacist. Investigators allegedly found a series of edited videos of the massacre – which the gunman, Australian Brenton Tarrant, live-streamed – as well as the manifesto of Norwegian neo-Nazi terrorist Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people in a bomb attack and shooting spree in 2011. Much of the content investigators allegedly found on Salter’s devices is too explicit to publish. In one, prosecutors allege segments of the Christchurch massacre are overlaid with a Rolling Stones song and references to the first-person shooter video game Call of Duty. A voice-over states: “What happens when the soldier becomes the weapon.“ The extremist content allegedly found on Salter’s devices was ultra-violent in nature and depicted people being violently attacked alongside neo-Nazi slogans. One 13-second video depicted an explosion at a protest “followed by images of a Nazi swastika and partial footage from the Christchurch massacre”, prosecutors allege. Salter, who was an apprentice carpenter in the ADF before his arrest, came to the attention of NSW Police when he attended a gathering of the Australian neo-Nazi group the National Socialist Network in November 2024
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