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Real concern - New white supremacist group in UK

(82 Posts)
Grandma70s Tue 01-Oct-24 11:53:41

The thought makes my blood run cold.

Wyllow3 Tue 01-Oct-24 11:48:20

It's struck me how it's an international group. I hope you're right about tabs being kept and you are right in flagging up further concerns.

Another concern about these groups for me is how they treat women, I don't see a great future for us in these obsessive youth and violence cultures.

Indigo8 Tue 01-Oct-24 11:45:21

Very worrying. There was a similar group of 'like minded people' mainly low intellect, violent young men, during the 1960s.
I hope that the BBC investigation goes some way to outlawing this malignant organisation.

grandtanteJE65 Tue 01-Oct-24 11:43:58

Much as I appreciate Monica's point, I do find the groups we know about worrying in the extreme.

They are coming out of the woodwork all over Europe, and it is assuredly not what I want to see happening.

The problem is knowing how to stop them.

welbeck Tue 01-Oct-24 11:42:47

there was a men's outdoor clothing store that opened near here a while ago.
it had interesting looking clothes with a nordic sounding brand name.
then it was revealed that it was a front for and supporting with its profits a similar group, neo nazis.
it's quite concerning, people might have bought things without ever realising where the money was going.
the shop held out for a while, denying it, but closed down after a while.

M0nica Tue 01-Oct-24 11:37:37

The fact that the BBC have done a program on them and they are already known to police and security services, suggests that their cover is blown and tabs are being kept on them.

It is the extreme rightwing movements that we DON'T know of that worry me.

Wyllow3 Tue 01-Oct-24 11:32:27

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5ydnqdq38wo

"An extreme right-wing group with links to a violent white supremacist collective has been recruiting young men to support its efforts to "revive" what it called England's "warrior culture" by masquerading as a sports club, a BBC investigation has found.

Active Club (AC), which hails World War Two Nazi leader Adolf Hitler as a hero, claims to be "peaceful and legal" and focus on male friendship and fitness.

The group arrived in the UK in 2023 and has since set up branches in Northern Ireland, Scotland and various regions of England, including the North West, the Midlands, London and East Anglia.

Its closed social networks contain:

*Photographs of members celebrating Hitler's birthday with a swastika-covered cake

*Images of members wearing t-shirts emblazoned with the term Waffen-SS, the name of the Nazi combat branch during World War Two

*Evidence of recruits brandishing racist banners in public places
Messages in the wake of the Southport stabbings encouraging people "not to sit idly by"

*Guidance on how to avoid police detection in the riots that followed those stabbings

And further information.