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March 24, 2025 Alexander Ritzmann

Guns, Drugs, and Swastikas: Europe’s Neo-Nazi Mafias

A few weeks ago, the Austrian police discovered 90 firearms, 10,000 pieces of ammunition and several Nazi uniforms during a series of raids. In Germany, members of a Nazi Mafia were sentenced for drug trafficking and other crimes in recent years...

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"Senior adviser to the Counter Extremism Project, Ian Acheson, warned that video games were the "perfect way to recruit kids" due to how "easy" it was to disguise interactions that were "seamless and social".

Ashton Kingdon, author of The World White Web claimed that far-right propaganda was "everywhere", added: "It's a Wild West where young people, especially those who spend a lot of time gaming, can find their tribes. Extremist groups are well aware of this and use these platforms to push their messages on vulnerable players."

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February 26, 2025
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“"We are trying to bring some normality back to the lives of the affected communities."Any volunteer who comes to North Carolina or Florida to help the victims of hurricanes Helene and Milton could say the same. But the man who says this in front of a camera in a video posted on Telegram on October 6 and shared on most social networks is not just anyone. […] "The Patriot Front is also clearly fascist, and its logo is inspired by that of Benito Mussolini's Italian National Fascist Party ," says Matthew Feldman. It is also a group anchored in a culture of violence that "is linked to the American network of neo-Nazi cells of the Active Club Network ," says Joshua-Fisher Birch, an American analyst for the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), an international organisation that fights extremist movements.”

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October 12, 2024
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"The Counter Extremism Project, a New York-based non-profit group, noted that anti-LGBTQ ideas had been taken up by both Islamist and far-right extremists.

'It is no surprise that neo-Nazis and jihadis often express mutual admiration for their shared anti-gay visions,' Mark D Wallace, the project's chief executive, said in a statement."

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May 17, 2024
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"Australian white supremacists and neo-Nazis are encouraging members to undergo combat sports training and law enforcement avoidance under the banner of “Active Clubs”, a parliamentary inquiry into right-wing extremism heard from the Counter Extremism Project (CEP)."

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April 12, 2024
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"Active Club portrays itself as consisting of combat sports groups. Alexander Ritzmann, a senior adviser at the Counter Extremism Project in Berlin, said in a research paper that the Active Club’s real purpose is to create a 'standby militia' that can be activated to create violence on behalf of neo-Nazi causes."

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December 8, 2023
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"Active Club portrays itself as consisting of combat sports groups. Alexander Ritzmann, a senior adviser at the Counter Extremism Project in Berlin, said in a research paper that the Active Club’s real purpose is to create a 'standby militia' that can be activated to create violence on behalf of neo-Nazi causes"

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December 8, 2023
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On October 7, 2023, Hamas invaded southern Israel where, in the space of eight hours, hundreds of armed terrorists perpetrated mass crimes of brutality, rape, and torture against men, women and children. In the biggest attack on Jewish life in a single day since the Holocaust, 1,200 were killed, and 251 were taken hostage into Gaza—where 101 remain. One year on, antisemitic incidents have increased by record numbers. 

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