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Clearwater woman said ‘white supremacy group’ would shoot up Black church on Easter: SPPD

A Clearwater woman was arrested Monday after she was accused of threatening a mass shooting at a church in St. Petersburg. The charge stems from Instagram posts made by Cheryl Bradley, 70, toward Gregory Murray, the pastor of Mt. Zion Primitive Baptist Church, according to an arrest report. “The white supremacy group will attend your Easter service. Prepare yourselves!!!” a post made on March 17 said, in part. “Hey…. This is Florida. We open carry (racial slur)!!! Pew pew!!!” “We are coming for you wanna be pastor Gregory Murray,” Bradley said, according to the arrest report. “You can’t hide (racial slur) and the devil who wears Prada. Done deal on Easter!!” In additional messages detailed in the arrest report, police said Bradley called Murray a “monkey,” threatened to “follow up at (his) home with protests,” and said “a shadow will f*** you up.” (…) Bradley was charged with making threats of a mass shooting and remained in the Pinellas County Jail on Tuesday, where she is being held on a $50,000 bond.

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Shocking racist messages from group chat named ‘Nazi Heaven’ force Republican secretary to quit

A Florida Republican resigned from his secretary position on Monday after a racist group chat filled with epithets and slurs was exposed. Abel Carvajal, 23, stepped down as Miami-Dade Republican Party secretary about three weeks after the vile messages were leaked. Carvajal created the WhatsApp group chat and took part in it at times, leaving it active even as shocking messages about killing black people were shared. At one point, the chat was renamed to pay tribute to what one member dubbed ‘Nazi heaven,’ according to the Miami Herald. Carvajal specifically used the terms ‘miss,’ ‘miet,’ and ‘m***er,’ all variations of the n-word, the Floridian Press reported. In total, the heinous slur variations were used more than 400 times. Women, gay people and Jewish people were also regularly demeaned in the chat. Carvajal resigned ahead of a special meeting on Monday to vote on his future in the party. (…) At one point last September, the participants – who also included some of FIU’s top Republicans and the university’s Turning Point USA chapter president – appeared to be discussing a black student. The student had left the university’s College Republicans group after being subjected to racial slurs, according to the Floridian Press. One participant asked: ‘What happened to her?’ Another replied: ‘William called her a nr so she left.’ Carvajal then posted: ‘Why didn’t miess leave?’ In a separate conversation, two members discussed ‘Total negro death.’ One of them proceeded to post more than two dozen ideas on how to ‘kill n***rs.’ Later, the chat was renamed to ‘Gooning in Agartha,’ referencing a slang term for masturbation and a mythical concept that Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler believed was a heaven of sorts.

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An American in Russia Is Linked to Neo-Nazi Terror Cells Across Europe

F.B.I. agents thought they had weakened an online hate group known as the Base. A string of European terrorism cases indicates it has resurged. Over the past 18 months, investigators across Europe have dismantled a string of neo-Nazi groups. Some were well organized and armed with guns and knives. Others appeared looser. In Britain, a teenager was arrested and charged with plotting an attack to start a race war. These seemingly unrelated cases shared a thread. In each, the authorities linked key figures to a far-right group known as the Base, which recruits online, largely through white supremacist memes and propaganda. The group’s message is that multiculturalism has made Western society irredeemable. Recruits are urged to commit sabotage and murder to hasten its collapse. American law enforcement officials thought they had stifled the group years ago with a series of prosecutions. Its European resurgence is particularly concerning, experts say, because the Base’s goals align so squarely with the Kremlin’s efforts to conduct sabotage and undermine Western governments. The man behind the Base, the authorities say, is a 52-year-old American living in Russia, far outside the reach of Western authorities. In recent years, as Russia has waged war against Ukraine, the Base has begun promoting violence against Ukrainian politicians, government offices and infrastructure, according to a report by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, an international research organization. Steven Rai, the author of that report, said the Russian government may simply be giving the group’s founder safe haven. “Another possibility is that the relationship extends beyond tacit approval,” he said, “with Russia offering more direct and covert forms of support.” Rinaldo Nazzaro, whom Europol identified in December as the man behind the Base, has said the group promotes self-defense, not terrorism or Nazism. He has repeatedly denied any relationship with the Russian security services.

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Landgericht Braunschweig stellt sich hinter AfD – “Gefährdung von Kindern”: Gericht hält queer­feindliche Aussage von Vanessa Behrendt für okay

Seit Jahren macht die niedersächsische AfD-Landtagsabgeordnete Vanessa Behrendt Stimmung gegen queere Menschen und wirft ihnen etwa vor, Kinder zu gefährden. Für das Landgericht Braunschweig ist das keine Volksverhetzung. Das Landgericht Braunschweig will nach queer­feindlichen Äußerungen der AfD-Landtagsabgeordneten Vanessa Behrendt keine Anklage erheben. Demnach sei “derzeit nicht zu erwarten, dass es zu einer Hauptverhandlung vor dem Landgericht kommt”, so das Gericht laut dem rechten Portal “Nius”. Hintergrund ist, dass Behrendt die Regenbogen­fahne im Oktober 2024 auf der Plattform X unter anderem als Symbol für “Machenschaften pädophiler Lobbygruppen” und für “die Gefährdung von Kindern durch LGBTQ-Propaganda” bezeichnet hatte, woraufhin es Anzeigen wegen Volks­verhetzung gegeben hatte (queer.de berichtete). Auch vom “Bedrängen von Kleinkindern mit Transsexualität” oder der “Behandlung von Geschlechts­identitätsstörungen mit Pubertätsblockern, Hormontherapien und Transgender-OPs” war die Rede. Zudem soll Behrendt laut Staatsanwaltschaft die Anschrift des Mannes veröffentlicht haben, der die Anzeige erstattet hat. Laut dem “Nius”-Bericht habe das Landgericht die Auffassung, dass sich der Tweet von Behrendt auf die Regenbogenfahne bezogen haben könnte und nicht pauschal auf queere Menschen, die diese nach Ansicht von Behrendt abzulehnende “Ideologie” verträten. Daher könne keine Anklage wegen Volksverhetzung erhoben werden, weil die Fahne ja kein Mensch sei, gegen den man hetzen könne. Die Staatsanwaltschaft hatte dagegen in den Äußerungen Behrendts einen Verstoß gegen Paragraf 130 des Strafgesetzbuches gesehen. Dieser sieht vor Haftstrafen von drei Monaten bis zu fünf Jahren für eine Person vor, die einen “Teil der Bevölkerung beschimpft, böswillig verächtlich macht oder verleumdet”.

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Mosque shooter video clip was Hastings teen Ronndog Keefe’s ticket to world of online violence – #terror

Intelligence agencies are warning that radicalised teenage boys and young men prepared to commit violence are an emerging security threat. Ric Stevens delves into the case of one young man who was drawn into violent and sexual extremism on the internet, to the point of planning a mass murder. This article contains descriptions of extremist violent and sexual material, including the abuse of children, and may be upsetting for some readers. A 15-second clip of the Christchurch mosque shooter’s rampage was the admission ticket for teenager Ronndog Keefe to enter the twisted world of violent and sexual extremist material online. Socially isolated, playing video games for much of his time, he got drawn into the nastiest and most corrupting reaches of the internet because, there, he found a status and notoriety he couldn’t get in real life. He did not even own a mobile phone until he was 18. Yet, once online, he quickly amassed tens of thousands of digital images and 93 hours of video showing the most disgusting and depraved sexual abuse of very young children. Real children suffering the worst forms of abuse at the hands of adults who filmed or photographed it all and shared it online. Keefe collected such material and placed it on a file-sharing server where anyone with the link could access it. At 19, Keefe also became a radicalised self-proclaimed “soldier of Christ” posting anti-Islam material and fantasising about taking a bladed weapon into a mosque or a mall to kill Muslim men. Authorities raided his suburban Flaxmere, Hastings, home at least twice. First, in an investigation led by the Department of Internal Affairs (DIA), it was because of the child sexual exploitation material he had been collecting and sharing on the web. DIA officers and police seized an iPhone 12 and a PlayStation 5 gaming console from the house in August 2024 as they acted on multiple tips from overseas agencies, which had been notified of Keefe’s online activities. The following month, police came calling again because of conversations Keefe had been having with a young woman in the United States. Keefe indicated to her that he had advanced his plans for a mass attack, and even selected a date. She tipped off the FBI. The date Keefe had nominated to carry out his plan was the day he was due back in court on charges of possessing and distributing offensive material. Police by then were taking the matter seriously enough to consider that Keefe had developed “extremist ideology” and was of enough concern to be labelled a “national security threat”. When they raided his home again, police found a bayonet, a machete and a copy of the Quran in Keefe’s room, along with another PlayStation console. The console was logged on to a YouTube channel, on which a video had been posted from one of Keefe’s known email addresses. It contained “anti-Islam narratives”, according to a police summary of facts. Crown counsel Megan Mitchell, who led Keefe’s prosecution in the Napier District Court, later said that he intended to target Muslim men in particular. Police said Keefe intended his attack to be a “suicide mission”.

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Nazi-obsessed teenager described herself as ’embodiment of hell’ before launching axe attack

Alina Burns, 18, has admitted attempted murder after attacking an Iranian Kurd outside a barber’s shop in Bristol. A Nazi-obsessed teenager who launched a far-right axe attack on a random stranger has pleaded guilty to attempted murder. Alina Burns, then aged 18, attacked Mohammed Mahmoodi, an Iranian Kurd, outside a barber’s shop in Bedminster, Bristol, on 2 August last year as he was chatting with a friend. CCTV from inside the shop showed the 27-year-old turning and ducking at the last minute as she swung an axe at his neck. The teenager then tried to strike Mr Mahmoodi again, before he managed to disarm her, escaping with only painful scratches to his neck and cheek. She was then detained by police officers who had been on patrol nearby. They found a scalpel and several darts on her. Burns nodded when the arresting officer asked her if she had swung the axe at the man. When he asked her why, she said: “I wanted to cut his neck.” Police later discovered an email she had written to an associate, saying: “Kill all Jews and Muslims in Britain, please.” Burns, who hung an England flag above her bed, was a member of the Patriotic Alternative, a far-right group. Serena Gates KC, told Bristol Crown Court that Burns had “a desire for a white England, achieved, if necessary, through terror”.

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#Terror -Ermittlungen gegen Reichsbürger: Gewaltfantasien eines Reutlinger Zeugen

Am 22. März sorgte eine Razzia im Reichsbürger-Milieu für Aufsehen. In Reutlingen wurde dabei ein SEK-Beamter angeschossen, auch in Stuttgart gab es eine Durchsuchung. Die Maßnahmen standen im Zusammenhang mit Terror-Ermittlungen der Bundesanwaltschaft und betrafen vor allem Personen, die im Verfahren als Zeugen geführt werden. Der Schütze von Reutlingen war einer dieser Zeugen. Ein weiterer Mann, dessen Wohnung im Reutlinger Stadtteil Altenburg durchsucht wurde, fiel in der Vergangenheit mit Umsturz- und Gewaltfantasien auf. Und besuchte Querdenker-Demos. Razzia in Reutlingen-Altenburg: Unter dem Radar der Öffentlichkeit Durch die Schüsse auf SEK-Beamte ging die Razzia in Reutlingen-Altenburg am 22. März in Medienberichten eher unter. Die Südwestpresse berichtete zuerst darüber, und legte am 31. März mit einer großen Recherche zu der betroffenen Person nach. „Der Durchsuchte verbreitet gefährliche Hetze“, heißt es darin. Er besuche regelmäßig Querdenker-Demos in der Region und sei bei einer AfD-Veranstaltung im März 2022 als Ordner eingesetzt gewesen. Der Name des Mannes ist unserer Redaktion bekannt. Wie der Südwestpresse wurden auch uns Aufnahmen des Einsatzes zugespielt, die den SEK-Einsatz in Altenburg zeigen. Und Dokumente, die einen eindeutigen Bezug zwischen dem Mann und einem Account beim Messenger-Dienst Telegram herstellen. Auch unsere eigenen Recherchen zeigen, dass vom Account des Mannes in den letzten zwei Jahren in zahlreichen Kanälen dutzende radikale Beiträge abgesetzt wurden. Die Inhalte: Antisemitismus, Morddrohungen, Umsturzpläne. Die Feindbilder: Politiker, Mediziner, Journalisten. Gewaltfantasien auf Telegram: „Munition geht auf mich“ 2021 hatte der Fall eines belgischen Berufssoldaten für Aufsehen gesorgt. Der ehemalige Scharfschütze und mutmaßliche Rechtsextremist hatte Medienberichten zufolge einem prominenten Virologen mit dem Tod gedroht. In einem Telegram-Kanal, dem auch der Mann aus Altenburg angehörte, wurde das Gerücht gestreut, der Soldat sei „nach Berlin unterwegs“.

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