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The alleged crime shows how the U.S.-based neo-Nazi terror group has an international presence. Last fall, part of a mink farm in Sweden was mysteriously burned to the ground and police couldn’t figure out why. And while the crime remains unsolved by authorities, evidence appears to show an eco-fascist cell within The Base—an American neo-Nazi terror group under intense FBI investigation—is responsible for the arson. Through confidential sources and online records, VICE believes the crime was allegedly committed by a teenage member of The Base living in Sweden, who first claimed the attack in a video on iFunny, a popular meme-sharing website. When contacted by VICE, the eco-fascist cell that claimed responsibility for the fire said, “No comment.”
The arson is new evidence of the international reach of The Base, whose leader is believed to be based in St. Petersburg, Russia, and its ability to covertly plot and carry out criminal acts outside of the United States. “Eco-fascism” is an ideology experiencing a revival among the far-right, which blames the demise of the environment on overpopulation, immigration, and over-industrialization, problems that followers think could be partly remedied through the mass murder of refugees in Western countries. For example, the Christchurch shooter declared himself an “eco-fascist” in his infamous manifesto. (…) The eco-fascist cell of The Base, which sometimes goes by a different name, bragged about the arson in both public and private channels and used the video in a propaganda push online. The group was originally independent from The Base, but over time merged with it, as the terror group’s ecologically minded wing.A Swedish animal liberation group also took responsibility for the fire, but the blog where it was claimed featured no original photos or videos; instead it reused images from news broadcasts.

via vice: Eco-fascist’ Arm of Neo-Nazi Terror Group, The Base, Linked to Swedish Arson

Die Staatsanwaltschaft Hannover hat gegen drei mutmaßliche Mitglieder der Neonazi-Gruppe „Calenberger Bande“ Ermittlungen eingeleitet. Die Behörde wirft den jungen Männern Sachbeschädigung und das Verwenden von verfassungsfeindlichen Kennzeichen in sechs Fällen vor.

via haz: Durchsuchungen bei mutmaßlichen Mitgliedern der Neonazi-Gruppe „Calenberger Bande“

siehe dazu auch: NEUE NAZI-GRUPPE IN HANNOVER: “CALENBERGER BANDE”. In Hannover und der Region ist eine neue Nazi-Gruppe in Erscheinung getreten. Hier findet ihr Infos zu ihren Vorgehensweisen und ihren Mitgliedern. Die “Calenberger Bande” zählt momentan 6 Mitglieder, ist überregional vernetzt und hat eine eindeutige nationalsozialistische Ausrichtung. Zu ihren Mitgliedern zählen unter anderem der bekannte Neonazi Patrick Kruse und sein Mitbewohner Daniel Brunner. Desweiteren der als Erzieher arbeitende Florian Laskowski, die Freundin von Patrick Kruse, sowie zwei weitere Personen. Das Vorgehen der Calenberger Bande ist bestimmt durch das nicht öffentliche Auftreten ihrer Mitglieder. Es gibt eine klare Strategie, nicht an öffentlichen Demonstrationen und/oder Kundgebungen teilzunehmen. Ihre Aktionen beschränken sich auf ein geheimes, gewaltbereites Vorgehen. Desweiteren führen sie interne Fortbildungen und gemeinsame Ausflüge zu nationalsozialistischen Themen durch.

In the Face of Rising White Supremacist Violence, Police Continue to Investigate Victims and Activists. It’s been 10 months since someone set an office building on fire at Highlander Research and Education Center, a storied civil rights institution perched in the mountains of northeastern Tennessee, but the investigation into the fire seems to have gone nowhere. The charred remains of the collapsed structure are still untouched, and the yellow tape blocking access to them has only recently come off. In the parking lot next to the destroyed building, a symbol someone spray-painted in black on the concrete the night of the fire is also untouched: It looks like a hashtag, but with three intersecting lines instead of two. That symbol is one used by racist extremists in the U.S. and abroad. It was painted on one of the firearms used by an Australian white supremacist who massacred 51 people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, just two weeks before the fire at Highlander. The Anti-Defamation League traced the symbol’s origins to a Romanian fascist movement dating back to the 1930s and 1940s. But while the symbol is obscure to most, it has resurfaced in connection with the Traditionalist Worker Party, a neo-Nazi group that was active in the U.S. until recently. A year before it was sprayed in the parking lot at Highlander, the symbol was also painted on “the Rock,” a boulder at the University of Tennessee’s Knoxville campus, not far from Highlander, used by students as a message board. Yet if the symbol was a clue about who might have attacked Highlander, investigators — with the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office; the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation; the Tennessee State Fire Marshal’s Office; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; and the FBI — have not yet said so publicly.

via theintercept: The Fire This Time