State protectors strike against the neo-Nazi scene. After evaluating explosive conversations with a hitman, a former HTL student is taken into custody.
When he first came to the attention of local authorities, he was 17 years old, attended the HTL and was a member of the right-wing extremist “Feuerkrieg Division”. A neo-Nazi chat group that exchanged information about attacks on secret internet forums.
Attack plans: ‘Give an explosive twist to the meeting’
The Viennese wrote under the code name ‘v00rm’: ‘Should I pray with the dirty Muslims or mingle with the Jews when they hold one of their meetings and give it an explosive twist?’
In addition, the youngster – he also had contact with the attacker from Bratislava who shot two young men in front of an LGBT scene bar in October 2022 – also called for attacks with bombs and firearms in America. When the ‘Feuerkrieg Division’ was destroyed, he left the chat group saying: ‘All the best to the brothers we have lost.’
That he was fully prepared to take action is also evident from instructions for building bombs and firearms from a 3D printer – and he had a firearms license for rifles. After an initial search in May 2023 by Cobra agents and investigators from the Directorate of State Security and Intelligence (DSN), the Public Prosecution Service only had enough to ban weapons, despite an arsenal of Nazi memorabilia, guns, etc.
After analyzing the chat, the handcuffs clicked
The now 20-year-old remained on the run. Only after the extremely dangerous conversations had been evaluated had he been in custody since shortly before Christmas because of the crime and the risk of recurrence. It was not the only success for the state police: in early January, a 40-year-old was also handed over handcuffs for reactivation.
First Corona, then Putin’s war against Ukraine and inflation – ‘New Right’ is gaining importance here.
They appear in a modern guise, using seemingly innocent, unremarkable symbolism – but their ideas are full of hatred. ‘New Right’ – such as the Identitarian Movement Austria, or IBÖ for short, or ‘The Austrians’ (DO5) – pose the greatest challenge in the field of right-wing extremism, according to domestic intelligence services.
While for FPÖ leader Herbert Kickl they are just an “NGO of the right”, the police intelligence service is deeply alarmed by their great affinity with weapons. More than a hundred registered firearms are attributed to this right-wing movement.
And according to the state security service, the many crises indicate “a noticeable influx on the scene”. There are also divisions within the right.
While the young, like IBÖ mouthpiece Martin Sellner, consider ‘remigration plans’, for example at the infamous far-right rally in Germany, the elderly show solidarity with pro-Palestinian demos in their shared hatred of Israel.
Source: Krone
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