Another arrest of a Canadian youth has been linked to the insidious Com network, an international extremist ecosystem targeting vulnerable children.Canada’s national law enforcement agency has announced that a teenager is facing a terrorism charge for alleged involvement with an international network of individuals targeting children. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police announced on Thursday that its national security enforcement team, INSET, had arrested a 15-year-old in Edmonton, Alberta, “for a terrorism-related offence.” “The youth was remanded into custody and the RCMP has commenced proceedings against the youth by way of a terrorism peace bond, pursuant to s. 810.011 of the Criminal Code – Fear of terrorism offence,” the RCMP said in a release. “INSET investigators fear the youth will commit terrorism offences related to the COM/764 violent online network.” (…) 764 is by far the best-known of the many subgroups active within the exploitative Com ecosystem, particularly due to the arrests of several of its members. According to Mack Lamoureux, the 764 network pushed individuals into horrific acts of violence and self-harm. Though its founder, then-17-year-old Bradley Cadenhead, was sentenced to life in prison, the group has been survived by several newer iterations of 764 and has included at least one Canadian minor. In April, the US Justice Department announced that it had arrested Prasan Nepal, a 20-year-old from High Point, North Carolina, for his role in 764. Nepal had assumed leadership of 764 after Cadenhead’s arrest. Nepal and another man, Leonidas Varagiannis, are accused of exploiting “at least eight minor victims” with content “traced back to children as young as 13 years old.” 764 & THE COM The Com often defies typical labels that have come to define hate and extremist networks. While there are elements of other extremist groups, like the accelerationist Order of Nine Angles (O9A)—an occult order commonly associated with neo-Nazi movements—researchers generally view these connections to Com as aesthetic with some notable exceptions. Imagery and symbols from the O9A are shared by members of these networks, but the purpose and motivations of the network do not draw from the spanning philosophical texts of the order. The Com network has been increasingly discussed by researchers, media, and law enforcement alike. What is often missed by the coverage is how broad “The Community” extends. Initially identified as an information security threat, not all Com groups engage in the creation of child sexual exploitation material, but a host of other criminal activities.
via antihate.ca: 15-YEAR-OLD CANADIAN ARRESTED ON TERRORISM CHARGES RELATED TO “COM/764” NETWORK