Posing proudly in official livery alongside his colleagues – this photo shows a chief propagandist for a Neo-Nazi network working as a tour guide at Buckingham Palace. Matthew Gravill, 26, is pictured on the steps of Buckingham Palace gardens, where members of the Royal Family greet guests during garden parties. It is the same spot where Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, stood alongside Queen Elizabeth II to watch a military band during the US President’s state visit in 2019. Gravill, from Leicestershire, was exposed last month by ITV News as a key player in two British fascist groups, Active Club England and Vanguard Britannica. Active Club England presents itself as a male fitness group but idolises Adolf Hitler and provides weapons training. Vanguard Britannica, which emerged in 2022, is more openly political, with members attending public protests. Neither group is proscribed by the government. The photo of Gravill at the palace was taken in the summer of 2023 when he was a royal warden charged with guiding visitors around its gardens and lavish state rooms.
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We’re learning more disturbing details following Tuesday’s standoff and shootout in Stamford, Connecticut, between a homeowner and members of law enforcement. CBS News New York has learned 63-year-old Jed Parkington, who died by suicide during the standoff, was fascinated with Nazi Germany and was dressed in camouflage and wearing Nazi lapel pins when state marshals came to his door on Oaklawn Avenue in an attempt to evict him. Nazi paraphernalia was also found inside the home, including writing on a wall that says “Kapitulieren nein,” which is German for “No surrender.” Writing on another wall says “10/31/25 is your last day,” CBS News New York has confirmed. In addition, CBS News New York has learned a swastika flag and many other Nazi items were recovered. Pipe bombs and the decomposed body of a handcuffed male were also found, the latter likely involving foul play, CBS News New York has learned. Standoff and shootout in Stamford, Connecticut Police said Parkington opened fire on police who were backing up marshals serving eviction papers. Parkington fired dozens of AK-47 rounds at officers, police said. Some of the gunfire was captured on video that shows the spray of bulletproof glass as shots hit the 3-inch-thick windshield of an armored vehicle.
Russian neo-Nazi paramilitary group Rusich took to Telegram in mid-November to post a photo of one of its fighters posing in front of three bodies of Ukrainian soldiers. It is thought to be the tip of the iceberg in terms of war crimes committed by this group, which is currently deployed on the Ukrainian front. In the photo, the Russian fighter, wearing a ski mask and a bulletproof vest and carrying a Kalashnikov, poses proudly in front of three bodies on the ground. The three dead men are all dressed in the military fatigues – complete with a yellow armband – worn by Ukrainian soldiers, though they have been stripped of their weapons. The photo, which was posted on Telegram on November 15, is captioned: “Take this as an example. That’s how an army of victors takes photos, not victims.” According to pro-Russian blogger ButusovPlus, the photo was taken in the region of Pokrovsk, though it is impossible to independently verify this location. A few hours later, the photo was followed by a second post, this time one that called on followers to send similar images in order to obtain an unspecified sum of cryptocurrency. The message goes on to become even more macabre. “We are announcing a competition. The first three people who send a photo of prisoners who have clearly been executed will get a crypto money reward from Rusich.” The post has since been deleted by the administrator of the Telegram channel. (…) These atrocities are the hallmark of Rusich, a group of Russian mercenaries who regularly display neo-Nazi references. They became well-known in Donbas in 2014, then acted alongside the Russian mercenary operation, the Wagner Group. Currently, members of this group are active on the Ukrainian front. While it is difficult to estimate how many of them there are, analysts agree that Rusich had a few dozen fighters in 2022. ‘Their aim is to terrorise their adversary’ Today, Rusich has become a byword for terror, says Candace Rondeaux, a professor at Arizona State University: “Rusich is one of the pillars of the irregular warfare that the Kremlin has been engaged in since 2014. Their aim is to terrorise their adversaries by showing off their brutality. Rusich was close to the Wagner universe and that of the Redut group (Editor’s note: a Russian mercenary group with close links to the intelligence services); they intervened in Syria but also in Libya. It is also a paramilitary group that operates with the blessing of the GRU (Editor’s note: the Russian military intelligence service) and recruits within the Russian ultra-nationalist movement and amongst former Russian parachutists (Editor’s note: also called the VDV). Since it was created in 2014, Rusich has been seen as a force that carries out complex operations, including reconnaissance missions, sabotage or sniping. Some of their forces are operating behind enemy lines in Ukraine.” Neo-Nazi ideology The members of the unit regularly show off ultra-nationalist and neo-Nazi symbols on Telegram. Case in point: the badge worn by members of the unit, which features an ultra-nationalist symbol called the Kolovrat superimposed on top of the Russian imperial flag (black, yellow and white). Ricardo Parreira, an expert in far-right symbols, says that the Kolovrat has become a sort of banner for neo-Nazi groups in Eastern Europe (…) One of the founders and the current leader of Rusich, Alexey Milchakov, stated publicly in an interview that he considers himself a Nazi and not a patriot or a nationalist. He also called for the extermination of Ukrainians, “so they can no longer raise their children”. Ukrainian investigative group Molfar reported that Milchakov is believed to have cut off the ears of Ukrainian fighters in 2014 before publishing images of these atrocities on VKontakte.
Violent satanic neo-Nazi group Order of Nine Angles has been linked to horrific crimes in the UK and around the world – including child abuse, terrorist plots and encouraging self-harm. A former Brit school actor who claimed to have made a pact with a ‘red-horned devil’ is only the latest product of a terrifying satanic neo-Nazi group convicted of horror crimes in Britain and around the world. Declan George Candiani, 26, was stopped by counter-terrorism police at Stansted Airport as he attempted to go on holiday to Finland with his girlfriend in August last year. On seeing the contents of his phone, officers arrested him and searched the home he shared with his mum in Streatham, south-west London. An examination of his devices revealed a huge cache of extremist content which included “manifestos” of mass killers – and material linked to the satanist group Order of Nine Angles (O9A). Since its beginnings as an obscure sect in 1970s, the O9A has grown into a loose extremist network with adherents across the globe, combining neo-Nazi beliefs about racial superiority with bizarre occult and satanic imagery. Famous serial killers, such as Moors Murderer Ian Brady, are often idolised by members who praise their commitment to violence. O9A followers believe that racial equality, human rights, democracy, are ‘unnatural forces’ that prevent the Aryan race from taking over the world – and eventually outer space – and must therefore be destroyed through rituals, sexual abuse, and activities designed to spark disorder.
Pavel Matějný during a demonstration by neo-Nazis to support the arsonists who attacked a Romani family in Vítkov, Czech Republic, severely injuring a two-year-old, 16 April 2016. (PHOTO: Petr Zewlakk Vrabec) Pavel Matějný, who threatened to bring a firearm to the Office of the Czech Government last year, will serve three years in prison. He has not appealed his unconditional prison sentence, just protested (to no avail) the confiscation of his electronic devices by the Central Bohemian Regional Court. The verdict has taken effect. The court has punished Matějný for supporting and promoting a movement aimed at suppressing human rights and freedoms, for committing violence against a group of people, for inciting a crime, and for illegal possession of weapons. Matějný made his threats in the context of a demonstration by farmers that took place in the capital in February 2024. He wrote on Facebook that once their tractors made it to Prague, he would join them with his AK-47, i.e., a Kalashnikov assault rifle. The message was intercepted by detectives from the Prague Police’s Department on Extremism and Terrorism. They arrested Matějný and, during a search of his home, found electronic devices with neo-Nazi content and an illegally-held submachine gun. (…) The court did not agree with his argument. It pointed out, among other matters, that Matějný used the seized phones to connect to Facebook, where he made illegal posts, and that the computer disk held photographs of him giving the Nazi salute. Matějný has three previous convictions, most recently a suspended sentence for violence against an official. The Czech Interior Ministry’s report on extremism describes him as a “veteran neo-Nazi.”
Petr Zemánek, who faces attempted murder charges for stabbing a Belarusian man in Prague this spring, admitted to the assault at the Prague Municipal Court on Wednesday. However, he denied attacking the man because of his presumed nationality. According to the indictment, Zemánek assaulted the man because he thought he was Ukrainian. He told the court he regretted the conflict. The 40-year-old faces a sentence of 15 to 20 years in prison for attempted murder motivated by prejudice against a nation. The main trial is scheduled for next week. According to the indictment, Zemánek attacked two men – one from Ukraine, the other from Belarus – in front of a grocery store in the Radotín neighborhood of Prague in March this year. He was acting under the influence of alcohol. According to prosecutor Simona Krupová, Zemánek overheard the men speaking Russian and thought that it was Ukrainian. According to Krupová, he spat at one of the men and then started swearing at them, including saying “Fucking Ukrainians, what are you doing here, go back to Ukraine.” According to the indictment, when the men asked Zemánek if he was a nationalist or a racist, he began to give the Nazi salute and shout Nazi slogans, then punched the Belarusian twice. He reportedly then said “Yeah, I’ll kill you, I’m getting my knife and my gun” and went to his unit in the residential hotel, which was in the same building as the grocery store. (…) The men had allegedly filmed the defendant, but he was unable to specify at what point in the conflict. He claimed he remembered falling to the ground once or twice during the scuffle at the station and said it was possible he panicked and pulled his knife on them. “I don’t know, I have abrasions, I feel like I remember getting up off the ground,” Zemánek told the court. He also said he routinely carried the knife with him. Zemánek denied any connection to fascist or Nazi movements. On the day of the attack he was returning from a football match. When asked by one of the judges, the defendant said that while he used to be a member of the football “ultras”, he is no longer one today. He testified that he “doesn’t mind” Ukrainians, has many Ukrainian acquaintances, and regularly works with foreign nationals.
Poland’s foreign minister has told Elon Musk to “Go to Mars” after the billionaire called for the abolishment of the European Union—part of a wave of criticism by top U.S. figures targeting the bloc’s migration policy and democratic credentials. Radosław Sikorski rekindled the duo’s much-publicized dispute on Saturday evening after Musk wrote on social media site X, which he owns: “How long before the EU is gone? AbolishTheEU” Poland’s top diplomat replied: “Go to Mars. There’s no censorship of Nazi salutes there.” Sikorski was likely referring to images of Musk making what some commenters called a Nazi salute at President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January. Musk’s SpaceX is also trying to send a rocket to Mars and wants to establish a “a self-sufficient city” on the red planet.
