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Queerfeindlicher Antrag der AfD – AfD will Regenbogen aus Falkensee verbannen

In Falkensee fordert die AfD ein Verbot der Regenbogenflagge. Ein Bündnis erinnert die Stadtverordneten vor der Abstimmung an ihre Verantwortung. Zweimal im Jahr weht für eine Woche die Regenbogenfahne am Rathaus Falkensee. Am Mittwoch entscheidet die Stadtverordnetenversammlung im brandenburgischen Falkensee darüber, ob das auch in Zukunft so bleibt. Und während nicht nur in Sachsen vielerorts die Brandmauer bröckelt und AfD-Forderungen durchgesetzt werden, zeigt sich in der brandenburgischen 45.000-Einwohner-Stadt, wie zivilgesellschaftlicher Widerstand gegen die rechte Hegemonie geht. In einem Antrag forderte die AfD Falkensee hier ein Verbot für das Hissen der Regenbogenflagge an öffentlichen Plätzen und Gebäuden der Stadt. Ein breites Bündnis aus Vereinen, Jugendgruppen, Kir­chen­ver­tre­te­r:in­nen und Initiativen reagierte darauf mit Widerstand: Es fordert die Stadtverordnetenversammlung auf, sich für Toleranz, Vielfalt und Menschenrechte zu entscheiden – und somit gegen den AfD-Antrag.

via taz: Queerfeindlicher Antrag der AfD AfD will Regenbogen aus Falkensee verbannen

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Secret neo-Nazi event near Budapest raided by police and tax authority

A neo-Nazi party was held in a warehouse in Budaörs on 21 December last year. The location was kept secret by the organisers until the very last minute. The property was rented under the cover of the Nordic Sun Cultural Foundation supposedly to shoot a film, Telex has learned. However, the conspiracy did not work out too well, as in the end, not only did neo-Nazis from abroad show up but so did dozens of police officers, as well as officials of the National Tax Authority and the local government office. A concert with anti-Semitic bands As reported by Telex last autumn, Nordic Sun Records Budapest (NSRB), an unregistered label organised a neo-Nazi concert for the longest night of the year, 21 December. Tickets for the concert were only available in advance, but the exact venue was not disclosed by the organisers. Those who purchased tickets were later notified by email of the secret location. The NSRB invited two anti-Semitic bands from abroad to the concert. One was a band called Der Stürmer. They are a black metal band from Greece and represent the so-called NSBM (National Socialist Black Metal) movement. It is a subgenre of black metal that openly promotes national socialism, neo-Nazi ideas and racist, anti-Semitic views in its music. The other band chosen to perform was Sunwheel, a Polish black metal band also associated with the NSBM movement. When the concert was being organised, it seemed that it would take place in Budapest, but in the end, the organisers decided on a venue in Budaörs, just outside the capital. The warehouse in Budaörs was rented by the Nordic Sun Cultural Foundation. The Nordic Sun Cultural Foundation is also behind Nordic Sun Records Budapest, which actually organised the concert. The foundation, which was registered a few years ago and with a headquarter in the village of Nagybörzsöny, seemingly hasn’t got anything to do with the far right, although it is closely linked to the Hungarian branch of the international Blood & Honour far-right neo-Nazi network, Blood & Honour Hungária. Blood & Honour is a neo-Nazi music promotion network and far-right political group founded in the UK by one of the first skinheads, Ian Stuart Donaldson, a Briton, in the 1980s. The organisation is banned in several countries (Germany, Spain, Russia and Canada). The British government imposed financial sanctions on the organisation in January this year under the anti-terrorism legislation. The asset freeze was extended to all associated groups. Under the sanctions, no one in the UK is allowed to provide funding or financial services to the named organisations.

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Belgien – Teenager soll Anschlag auf Moschee geplant haben – #terror

In Belgien soll ein rechtsextremer Jugendlicher einen Terroranschlag auf eine Moschee geplant haben. Der Minderjährige wurde festgenommen und in eine geschlossene Jugendschutzeinrichtung eingewiesen, wie die Brüsseler Staatsanwaltschaft mitteilte. Bei einer Wohnungsdurchsuchung wurden demnach unter anderem Waffen sichergestellt.

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#MANSFELD-#SÜDHARZ – Fünftklässler rufen bei #WhatsApp zu Gewalt gegen Ausländer auf – #Polizei führt Gefährderansprachen durch

In Allstedt und Sangerhausen haben zwei Sekundarschulen Besuch von der Polizei. Der Auslöser war eine WhatsApp-Gruppe von Fünftklässlern. Darin hatten sie zu Gewalt gegen Ausländer aufgerufen. Die Polizei hat Gefährderansprachen durchgeführt. (…) Darin hatten die Schüler den Angaben zufolge zu Gewalttaten gegen Ausländer aufgerufen. Dabei wollten sie laut Polizei auch Waffen einsetzen.Demnach wollten sich die Zehn- und Elfjährigen in der WhatsApp-Gruppe mit dem Namen “Kampf” verabreden, um gegen Ausländer vorzugehen. Beamte waren daher in den betreffenden Sekundarschulen vor Ort, um die Fünftklässler über die Folgen solcher Äußerungen aufzuklären. Bei den Gefährderansprachen wurden demnach die Schüler und ihre Eltern über die strafrechtlichen Folgen solcher Ankündigungen informiert. Die entsprechenden WhatApp-Chats wurden sichergestellt.

via mdr: MANSFELD-SÜDHARZ Fünftklässler rufen bei WhatsApp zu Gewalt gegen Ausländer auf – Polizei führt Gefährderansprachen durch

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SA Police arrest man for allegedly displaying Nazi symbol as 14 neo-Nazis granted bail

The leader of a group of neo-Nazis who were arrested after marching through the Adelaide CBD has told a court that they have been subject to “outright political persecution by the South Australian police force”. Thomas Sewell, 31, is among a group of 17 members of the National Socialist Network who were arrested in Adelaide over the Australia Day long weekend and charged with various offences including failing to cease loitering and displaying a Nazi symbol. During his first appearance in the Adelaide Magistrates Court on Tuesday, Mr Sewell refused to sign his bail forms despite Magistrate Luke Davis telling him he would free him from custody with strict conditions. (…) Speaking outside court, Joel Davis, a supporter of the men and member of the National Socialist Network, told the media he did not understand why the men had been held in custody since Sunday. “People commit violent offences and get granted bail on the same day — it’s ridiculous,” he said. “I don’t believe they have broken the law — I think they will beat the charges in court.” He told the media that he believed the man charged with displaying a Nazi symbol had a tattoo of insignia on his arm.

via abc: SA Police arrest man for allegedly displaying Nazi symbol as 14 neo-Nazis granted bail

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Neo-Nazi leader on trial in #Maryland for alleged terrorist plot to destroy #Baltimore-area power grid – #terror #atomwaffendivision #awd

A Florida man is heading to trial in Maryland on Monday for an alleged terrorist plot to destroy the power grid in the Baltimore region.  The trial began with jury selection. On Monday, more than 27 jurors were chosen to sit on the 36-member body. Court is adjourned until Tuesday, Jan. 28 at 9:15 a.m. According to court documents, Brandon Clint Russell of Orlando, Fla., planned to carry out attacks against electrical substations between 2022 and 2023 in furtherance of his neo-Nazi beliefs. (…) According to prosecutors, Russell is the co-founder of the neo-Nazi organization Atomwaffen.  In January 2018, He was sentenced to five years in federal prison for possession of explosives, according to the Department of Justice.  He was arrested in 2017 after Tampa Police responded to a double homicide at an apartment where Russell had been living with the alleged suspect and two of the victims. Court documents show the four roommates were active members of Atomwaffen. Russell was not home at the time of this incident. The alleged homicide suspect told police he saw Russell participate in online neo-Nazi chatrooms where he threatened to kill people and blow up infrastructure. He also told police Russell had explosive materials in the apartment. (…) Russell allegedly collaborated with Sarah Beth Clendaniel of Catonsville, Maryland in the terrorist plot.  According to court documents, the two met in 2018 and they both believed in “accelerationism,” a white supremacist belief that the current government needs to be violently overthrown to create societal and government collapse. Clendaniel was arrested in February 2023 and a search of her home revealed various firearms and hundreds of rounds of ammunition, according to court documents. At the time, she was prohibited from owning a firearm as a convicted felon.  In May 2024, Clendaniel accepted a plea deal and pleaded guilty to trying to destroy the power grid.  In September 2024, she was sentenced to 18 years in prison.

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Enemies of the state – How being branded a ‘foreign agent’ affects those who stay in Russia

Russia’s notorious “foreign agent” law, which for years has been used by the Kremlin to intimidate would-be dissenters into silence, has left many of those it has targeted as virtual outcasts from society; unable to get a job, afraid of sullying the reputations of their friends, and with exile often appearing to be the sole solution. First introduced in 2012, just months after Vladimir Putin began his third presidential term following a wave of mass anti-government protests, the foreign agents law initially targeted organisations that received funding from outside the country, but has been expanded several times over the years and can now be applied to media outlets and private citizens, even in cases when there’s no evidence of overseas funding. “Foreign agents” cannot stand as candidates in federal, regional or local elections, cannot teach in schools or state-funded universities, or receive royalty payments or income from renting and selling property. Indeed, a 2022 amendment to the law expanded the criteria of what constituted a “foreign agent” to anybody who voiced criticism of the Kremlin’s policies. Since then there have been scores of new additions to the foreign agent register, which is updated by the Justice Ministry each week and now has over 900 names on it. While the list unsurprisingly includes a number of high-profile Kremlin critics such as former Novaya Gazeta editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov and Oleg Orlov, the chairman of Russian human rights group Memorial, hundreds of lesser-known journalists and activists have found their names added to the list in recent years as the Kremlin’s determination to silence any dissenting voice, however small, has grown stronger. Although many of those labelled “foreign agents” have left the country to live in exile, others continue to live in Russia albeit with their rights severely curtailed — for example, “foreign agents” cannot stand as candidates in federal, regional or local elections, cannot teach in schools or state-funded universities, or receive royalty payments or income from renting and selling property.

via Novaya Gazeta: Enemies of the state How being branded a ‘foreign agent’ affects those who stay in Russia

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