#Serbia expels US neo-Nazi after investigative website #Bellingcat outed his location – #RiseAboveMovement #RAM #terror #RobertMundo

Serbia has expelled Robert Rundo, the “American neo-Nazi and founder of the notorious right-wing extremist Rise Above Movement,” the Serbian daily Blic reported on February 11. According to unofficial information published in the Blic article, Serbian police escorted Rundo to the Trbušnica-Šepak border pass, which connects Serbia to Bosnia and Herzegovina, on the evening of February 10.   Last November, the investigative reporting platform Bellingcat alerted the public to Rundo’s presence in Serbia, drawing attention to the videos he’d been publishing from the country. These included a clip in which the 30-year-old native of Queens, New York, brags about helping local neo-Nazis restore Serbian nationalist graffiti that had been defaced days before by local anti-fascist activists. (… ) Bellingcat’s analysis of the videos posted by Rundo indicated that he has been living in Serbia since at least March 2020, while also traveling around Central and Eastern Europe, including participating in a march in Ukraine and speaking at a neo-Nazi rally in Hungary. Rundo had opened a clothing company called Serbon in Serbia, featuring products with white supremacist symbols and “anti-antifa” slogans. The Serbon YouTube channel features rap videos in Serbian glorifying street fighting. Founding the company allegedly enabled Rundo to acquire an annually renewable permit for temporary stay in the country as a foreign investor. Rundo is a convicted felon who served time in his home country for a gang attack on a 13-year-old boy, and whose racist exploits have been covered by the Daily Beast, PBS, and the New York Review of Books. He is not technically a wanted person in the U.S. at this moment. In 2019, a federal judge released Rundo after he dismissed charges against three Rise Above Movement (RAM) gang members indicted for their roles in violent rallies across California in 2017, saying the federal statute used to prosecute them was unconstitutional. (…) RAM is an alt-right gang from Southern California that uses martial arts to recruit young people and has been described as “a loose collective of violent neo-Nazis and fascists,” who are white nationalist, white supremacist, and far-right. According to a 2020 report on right-wing extremism by Serbia’s Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, neo-Nazis in Serbia have been focusing their recruiting efforts on children, drafting their “stormtroopers” from the ranks of boys attending middle and high school.

via globalvoices: Serbia expels US neo-Nazi after investigative website Bellingcat outed his location

siehe dazu auch: Bellingcat 11/2020: An American White Supremacist’s New Home in Serbia. Robert Rundo’s latest video opens with the 30-year-old native of Queens, New York, showing off Serbian nationalist graffiti adorned with a Celtic cross, a well-known white supremacist symbol. “So we’re out here in Belgrade, you know, cleaning up the neighborhood,” says Rundo, pointing to what he calls some “beautiful artwork from the locals” behind him. These locals are apparent far-right comrades of Rundo’s, repainting white supremacist graffiti that had been defaced days before by local anti-fascist activists. Rundo is the co-founder of the Rise Above Movement (RAM), an American white supremacist gang that saw three of its members imprisoned for violence at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017; two are still incarcerated. A separate federal case against Rundo himself for similar violence in California was dismissed in June 2019. Since then, he has been a free man, although federal attorneys have sought to challenge this outcome and an initial appeal hearing took place this week.

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Police arrest neo-Nazi suspect in Temple Beth Shalom vandalism

Police arrested a self-identifying neo-Nazi suspected of defacing Temple Beth Shalom with swastikas on Spokane’s South Hill earlier this month. Raymond Bryant, 44, was jailed Thursday morning on suspicion of malicious harassment and malicious mischief, both class C felonies. Police responded to a call at the synagogue on East 30th Avenue on the morning of Feb. 8 after graffiti was reported on one side of the building and on the Holocaust memorial there. The police department collected paint samples from the building, and surveillance footage showed a lone man wearing gloves and a mask at the scene. Spokane Police Department detectives executed a search warrant Thursday on Bryant’s Airway Heights home and then arrested him. At a Black Lives Matter protest in September, Bryant toted a poster with a large swastika advertising his and a friend’s neo-Nazi organization. He stood with several other neo-Nazis. Bryant and Eddie McBride had shaved heads and wore black boots and mostly black clothing. There, Bryant said he is a “proud Nazi” and “racist,” and his position “needs to be more extreme.”Bryant and McBride said they believe the Holocaust never happened. In fact, historians estimate more than 5 million Jews were murdered during the genocide, according to “Quantifying the Holocaust,” an article published in the peer-reviewed journal Science Advances.

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Tennessee man becomes 70th Nazi persecutor removed to Germany from the U.S.

Saturday, a Tennessee resident has been removed back to Germany for participating in Nazi-sponsored acts of persecution when he was an armed guard at a concentration camp in 1945, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Tennessee man ordered to return to Germany after serving as Nazi guard during WWII 95-year-old Friedrich Karl Berger, who had been living in Oak Ridge, becomes the 70th Nazi persecutor to be removed from the U.S. after he was ordered to be removed due to his participation in Nazi Germany in 1945 as an armed guard of concentration camp prisoners in the Neuengamme Concentration Camp system. “Berger’s removal demonstrates the Department of Justice’s and its law enforcement partners’ commitment to ensuring that the United States is not a safe haven for those who have participated in Nazi crimes against humanity and other human rights abuses,” said Acting Attorney General Monty Wilkinson. “The Department marshaled evidence that our Human Rights and Special Prosecutions Section found in archives here and in Europe, including records of the historic trial at Nuremberg of the most notorious former leaders of the defeated Nazi regime. In this year in which we mark the 75th anniversary of the Nuremberg convictions, this case shows that the passage even of many decades will not deter the Department from pursuing justice on behalf of the victims of Nazi crimes.” “We are committed to ensuring the United States will not serve as a safe haven for human rights violators and war criminals,” said Acting ICE Director Tae Johnson. “We will never cease to pursue those who persecute others. This case exemplifies the steadfast dedication of both ICE and the Department of Justice to pursue justice and to hunt relentlessly for those who participated in one of history’s greatest atrocities, no matter how long it takes.”

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Verstoß gegen #Corona-Regeln – #Polizei vertreibt Rechte von Spielplatz in #Düsseldorf – #covidioten #BruderschaftDeutschland #BruderschaftGarath

Mehrere Mitglieder der rechten Szene aus Düsseldorf-Garath wurden wegen Corona-Vorgaben von einem Spielplatz verwiesen. Die Polizei musste anrücken und den Ordnungsdienst der Stadt unterstützen. (…) Ein Passant hatte beobachtet, dass sich rund zwölf Erwachsene auf dem Kinderspielplatz zusammengerottet hatten. Der Zeuge rief den Ordnungsdienst, da ein Treffen von so vielen Menschen nicht den Corona-Bestimmungen entspricht. Der OSD soll nach Beobachtungen vor Ort mit einer größeren Einsatzstärke angerückt sein, wohl wissend, was den Kräften blühte: Die vor Ort ertappten sechs Leute zeigten sich laut Stadt „uneinsichtig und unkooperativ“ und ignorierten einen im Verlauf des Gesprächs erteilten Platzverweis. Stattdessen, so die Stadt, seien weitere Freunde der sechs hinzugekommen. Beobachter der Szene berichten, dass es sich bei den renitenten Spielplatzbesuchern um bekannte Mitglieder der in der rechten Szene verwurzelten Bruderschaft Deutschland gehandelt haben soll. 2017 hatte sich im Stadtteil zunächst die Bruderschaft Garath gegründet, die sich später umbenannte. Unter anderem beteiligen sich deren Mitglieder offen an Anti-Corona-Demonstrationen. Im Sommer 2019 war eine Abordnung vor dem Rheinbad aufmarschiert, nachdem es im Bad zu Problemen mit Badegästen gekommen war. Nach Stadtangaben verkündeten einige Gruppenmitglieder während des laufenden Einsatzes am Dienstagnachmittag, dass sie sich unmittelbar nach Abrücken der Ordnungskräfte erneut versammeln würden. Daraufhin rief der OSD die Polizei zu Hilfe. Bei der Ankunft weiterer Einsatzteams und der Polizei löste sich die Ansammlung auf, vier der Flüchtenden konnten aber im Umkreis gestellt werden, heißt es in der Pressemitteilung der Stadt weiter. Diese leitete Ordnungswidrigkeitenverfahren ein

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DEMO IN PRENZLAU – „Marktberg nicht der AfD überlassen”

Am Sonnabend wurde in Prenzlau bei einer Demo auf fehlende Solidarität in der Coronakrise, wachsenden Rechtsextremismus und Judenhass aufmerksam gemacht. Rund um den Marktberg zog die Prenzlauer Polizei am frühen Sonnabendnachmittag verstärkt Kräfte zusammen. Die Beamten sicherten eine im Vorfeld angemeldete Kundgebung ab, die unter dem Motto „Aus der Krise lernen – ohne Solidarität ist alles doof” stand und circa 50 Frauen und Männer in die City brachte. Mitinitiator Lothar Priewe vom „Bund der Antifaschistinnen und Antifaschisten” stand als Uckermark-Vertreter der „Vereinigung der Verfolgten des Naziregimes” (VVN) auf der Bühne. Am Mikrofon mahnte er Mitmenschlichkeit in der derzeitigen Situation an. Vor allem aber ging er mit den Uckermark-Spitzen der AfD hart ins Gericht. Dass der Landkreis Corona-Hotspot geworden sei, habe man maßgeblich dieser Partei zu verdanken, betonte Lothar Priewe unter lautem Applaus der Anwesenden. Der Grund dafür sei deren ständige Hetze gegen die notwendigen Corona-Maßnahmen der Regierung, führte Priewe weiter aus. Stimmung gegen Schwule Auf das Konto der AfD gehe zudem die Tatsache, dass die Uckermark bei rechtsextremen Vorfällen hinter Cottbus jetzt auf Platz 2 im Land Brandenburg liege. Es werde auch gegen Schwule und Fachärzte Stimmung gemacht, bilanzierte der VVN-Vertreter des Weiteren. In Berlin seien Freunde von ihm nach einer Anti-Corona-Demo wie Hunde durch die Stadt gehetzt worden. Der Landkreis sei ein Abbild dieser Entwicklungen. Priewe rief auch das tragische Geschehen von Potzlow in Erinnerung, wo vor 19 Jahren der erst 16-jährige Marinus von Einheimischen aus rechtsextremen Motiven heraus ermordert wurde: „Die Täter zwangen ihn zu sagen, dass er Jude ist.” Und eben dieser Judenhass mache sich auch in der Coronakrise wieder breit, ebenso wie der Massenmord des Nazi-Regimes verniedlicht werde. Ans Rednerpult trat ebenfalls Isabelle Czok-Alm.

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Gedenken an Neonazi-Opfer Sven Beuter


An den Tod des Punks Sven Beuter nach einem Neonazi-Angriff vor 25 Jahren ist in Brandenburg an der Havel mit einer Gedenkveranstaltung erinnert worden. An dem Gedenken nahmen am Samstag laut Polizei rund 170 Menschen teil. Der 23-jährige Sven Beuter wurde am 15. Februar 1996 in der Stadt zusammengeschlagen und erlag fünf Tage später seinen Verletzungen. Der rechtsextreme Hintergrund wurde damals laut Amadeu-Antonio-Stiftung acht Monate lang vom Polizeipräsidium verschwiegen.

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The Evolution of the #Boogaloo Movement – #terror

The Boogaloo movement, which coalesced online in late 2019 and manifested offline in 2020, has quickly evolved into a significant domestic violent extremist threat. It has also proven to be deeply challenging for online monitoring and evaluation due to its adaptive use of memes and coded language that blurs the lines between irony and incitement. Offline, a disrupted violent plot in Nevada targeting a racial justice protest, acts of accelerationist-inspired violence in California, and attempts in Minnesota of material support to a foreign terrorist organization underscore the gravity of the diverse threat the Boogaloo movement poses—and the need to take it seriously. The Boogaloo movement has resonated within the United States’ domestic extremist landscape through appeals to the nation’s revolutionary origins. And an accelerationist faction within Boogaloo has sought to instigate decentralized insurrectionary violence. As a big-tent movement with the ability to quickly adapt its messaging, its presence, fractured or not, will likely continue in 2021 and beyond. January 2021 marked one year of overt, offline Boogaloo movement activity in the United States by the movement’s members, often referred to as the “Boogaloo Bois.”a The movement has gained national notoriety in that time, due as much to its eclectic aesthetic of colorful Hawaiian-themed apparel as its connection to disrupted violent plots—namely, the attempted kidnapping of a sitting U.S. governor.1 In 2020, members of the movement were accused of plotting to use Molotov cocktails during a Black Lives Matter protest, conspiring to materially support Hamas, and murdering law enforcement personnel.2 The rapid evolution of the Boogaloo from niche internet forum meme to mainstream mobilization narrative in hardened violent extremist milieus suggests it presents a unique security challenge for both social media companies and U.S. law enforcement agencies going forward. The Boogaloo movement’s ambiguous, broad framing of American revolutionary ideals cloaks an inherent message of necessary violence against the U.S. government as a perceived authoritarian threat. This article will examine the history of how the Boogaloo movement arrived at its current state, detail the movement’s embrace of insurrectionary violence offline, provide a brief forecast of the movement, and suggest responses to the threat.

via combating terrorism center: The Evolution of the Boogaloo Movement

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