A teenager accused of amassing an ‘arsenal of weapons’ in preparation for a terrorist attack on a synagogue stored Nazi memorabilia in his cottage bedroom, a court heard on Wednesday. The 16-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is said to have been filled with ‘hate and racism’ and joined a banned neo-Nazi group which encouraged its followers to ignite a race war. He was arrested in February last year at the cottage he shared with his father in Northumberland while wearing his school uniform, Leeds Crown Court was told. On the second day of his trial on Wednesday, jurors were shown images of the boy’s bedroom which had an air rifle hanging on the wall and an air shotgun with the words ‘natural selection’ and ‘George Floyd’ scrawled on the barrel, in reference to the black man murdered by a white police officer in Minneapolis in 2020. A crossbow was also found on top of a set of shelves. Jurors were also shown an image taken from a video downloaded to the teenager’s laptop which showed a male wearing a skull mask, hat and goggles and holding a rifle. At the end of the video clip, the figure puts a magazine into the firearm and aims it directly at the camera. Also found in the room were five knives, two military tactical vests, military helmets, two skull masks, a German military jacket and a Nazi SS officer’s cap. The court had earlier heard that the schoolboy had researched a synagogue in Newcastle as a potential target for a far-right attack and had joined a ‘neo-Nazi paramilitary hate group’ called The Base. Opening the case to the jury, prosecutor Michelle Heeley KC said: ‘He believed in a race war, in white supremacy and he planned to carry out acts of terrorism in furtherance of his beliefs.’ On Wednesday, the court heard that police found a diary belonging to the teen in which he described how he was bullied at school and hated by female pupils. In one entry, written on January 30 2023, when he was aged 13, the boy wrote: ‘I swear to God I hate my f**king school. ‘I want to do horrible things to the people in my school. They are just stupid, loud and just overall obnoxious npcs [non-playing characters]. Some of them should be shot.’ He went on to list a ‘Mass Murder Ranking’ topped by Anders Breivik who killed 77 people in Norway, writing: ‘Ultimately he the best he killed the most amount of people to get his point across to people in the world.’ Second on the list were Columbine High School shooters Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, who killed 14 people. He wrote: ‘They had an amazing plan but they could’ve and should’ve killed more.’ In another entry he wrote: ‘In other terms I’m angry because I know that I will never have a girlfriend.’
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siehe dazu auch: Schoolboy ‘neo-Nazi’ filled with ‘hate and racism’ collected a stash of weapons including an airsoft gun and explosives to attack synagogue, court hears. A schoolboy ‘filled with hate and racism’ joined a banned neo-Nazi group and collected a stash of weapons including an airsoft gun and explosives as he prepared a far-right attack on a synagogue, a court heard today. The 16-year-old, who cannot be named because of his age, also kept a diary in which he expressed his desire to launch a terrorist attack against black people and homosexuals, Leeds Crown Court was told. He went on to research a synagogue in Newcastle as a potential target and joined a ‘neo-Nazi paramilitary hate’ group called The Base which encourages followers to carry out acts of violence in order to ignite a race war, it is alleged. When officers raided the cottage he shared with his father in a remote village in Northumberland on February 20 last year they found his bedroom was adorned with white supremacist flags and he had a collection of knives, crossbows and nails for use in a bomb. (…) On December 22, he used the Amazon website to purchase purchased potassium nitrate powder and watched a video on how to make black powder explosives. On Christmas Eve ‘instead of Christmas films’ he watched videos showing the loading and firing of a homemade black powder rifle, and a video of a mass stabbing by Arda Kucukyetim in Turkey in August 2024, along with videos of school shootings, Ms Heeley said. On December 29, a few weeks after turning 15, he researched Brenton Tarrant, who shot dead 51 worshipers at two mosques in Christchurch New Zealand. ‘Immediately after researching a man who had attacked a place of worship, this defendant researched local synagogues,’ including the Newcastle Reform Synagogue, Ms Heeley said. On New Year’s Eve, he looked for homemade .22 ammunition and a 3D printed firearm known as an FGC-9.
