Innenansichten aus der Neonaziszene: Ein Autonomer Nationalist steigt aus

Innenansichten aus der Neonaziszene: Ein Autonomer Nationalist steigt aus | Netz gegen Nazis

Holger H: „Gewalt ist bei der Mehrzahl der Leute ein Mittel zur Durchsetzung politischer Ziele“ . Holger H., heute 26, war acht Jahre in der militanten Neonazi-Szene in Deutschland aktiv, zuletzt bei den „Autonomen Nationalisten“ in Dortmund. Im Juni 2008 stieg er nach einer Zeit des Nachdenkens und der Ungewissheit aus. Im Interview mit NgN spricht er über die Szene. Holger, Sie waren seit Ihrem 16. Lebensjahr in der Neonazi-Szene und bis zum Sommer bei den Autonomen Nationalisten in Dortmund aktiv. Wie haben Sie Ihren Ausstieg bekannt gegeben? Ich bin vor etwa fünf Monaten aus der Szene ausgestiegen und aus Dortmund weggezogen. Öffentlich habe ich meinen Ausstieg aus der Szene bei einer Gerichtsverhandlung bekannt gegeben. Ich war gemeinsam mit anderen Autonomen Nationalisten wegen Landfriedensbruch angeklagt, weil wir am 24.12.2006 in Marl (NRW) eine Antifa-Demo angegriffen hatten, ich wurde schuldig gesprochen und zu einer Geldstrafe verurteilt. Ich hatte zu diesem Zeitpunkt aber schon längere Zeit nichts mehr mit diesen Leuten zu tun. Schon Monate vorher hatte ich in der Szene Schwierigkeiten und wurde angefeindet, weil ich offen Kritik geübt habe und Interesse an anderen politischen Positionen hatte. So etwas wird nicht geduldet. Ich konnte beispielsweise den Rassismus und die Menschenverachtung, vor allem auch die Verehrung von Adolf Hitler, nicht mehr ertragen.

Tensions rise as Hungarian nationalists apprehended in Slovakia

Politics.Hu: Tensions rise as Hungarian nationalists apprehended in Slovakia

„It is unacceptable that Hungarian Nazis march on Slovak territory in uniforms,“ questioning and threatening Slovak independence, Prime Minister Robert Fico said Saturday after 28 members of the Nyíregyháza-based National Guard were detained in eastern Slovakia on charges of carrying emblems of tyranny and propaganda against human rights. The 28 went to Kralovsky Chlmec to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the First Vienna Award, in which the Axis Powers gave part of Czechoslovakia to Hungary. They also laid wreaths at a local memorial to those killed in World Wars One and Two. All were released on Sunday after criminal proceedings against them were initiated. They have returned to Hungary.

Top Euro Nazi Zoltan Fuzessy’s hate site run from terraced house … in Gravesend

Top Euro Nazi Zoltan Fuzessy’s hate site run from terraced house … in Gravesend | The Sun |News

A TOP Euro neo-Nazi leader has secretly set up home in Britain, The Sun can reveal. Hungarian Zoltan Fuzessy, 35, uses his terraced house in Gravesend, Kent, as an HQ to promote his far-right movement. Fuzessy is vice-president of the Jobbik party, whose members freely boast of their hatred towards Jews and make sick jokes about the Holocaust. The party, called “the shame of Hungary” by the country’s PM, has paramilitaries who dress in black uniforms like Hitler’s SS and has close ties to the British National Party.

Neo-Nazi Held Without Bond in Alleged Online Threat to Federal Jury Foreman

Neo-Nazi Held Without Bond in Alleged Online Threat to Federal Jury Foreman | ABA Journal – Law News Now

A white supremacist who is accused of posting information on the Internet soliciting harm to a federal jury foreman pleaded not guilty today in federal court in Chicago. William White, 31, a resident of Roanoke, Virginia, will be held until at least Dec. 5, when a detention hearing is scheduled to determine whether he should get bond, according to the Associated Press and Chicago Sun-Times. As discussed in earlier ABAJournal.com posts, White is accused, of having sought to harm a foreman of the federal jury that convicted self-described white supremacist, Matthew Hale, in 2004 of plotting to kill a sitting federal judge in Chicago, U.S. District Judge Joan Lefkow. Subsequently, in an unrelated case, Lefkow’s husband and mother were murdered in her Chicago home early in 2005. Although another disgruntled litigant eventually confessed to the murders weeks later, in a note, before committing suicide, Hale initially was suspected, even though he was jailed at the time in a high-security setting. He was convicted in 2004 of targeting Lefkow for assassination, after she ruled against his World Church of the Creator in a trademark suit, and is now serving a 40-year sentence. „Authorities have said White listed the foreman’s address and phone numbers on his Web site under the heading ‘The Juror Who Convicted Matt Hale,’ “ the Chicago Tribune writes today in a breaking news brief. The same website that White reportedly used also has allegedly has solicited the shooting of a Canadian civil rights lawyer, the newspaper states.

Man pleads guilty to pro-Nazi vandalism

Fairfax Times: Man pleads guilty to pro-Nazi vandalism

Ronald Bost, Jr., age 49, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty on Nov. 7 to two counts of vandalism and was sentenced by United States Magistrate Judge T. Rawles Jones Jr., to 17 days in jail (time served) and two years of supervised probation, to be followed by three years of unsupervised probation. According to court documents, from approximately June 15, 2006 to Aug. 9, 2006, Bost repeatedly vandalized a construction site located along Memorial Ave. in Arlington, by writing “Heil Hitler” in black ink on barricades and signs. On one of the barricades, Bost wrote, “Heil Hitler death to Jews.” Bost also drew swastikas and other Nazi symbols on barrels and signs at the construction site.

Extreme-right German politicians brawl in regional parliament

EJP | News | Germany | Extreme-right German politicians brawl in regional parliament

A punch-up between two extrelme-right politicians from the neo-Nazi NPD party broke out in the regional parliament of Saxony in eastern Germany, a party spokesman said Wednesday. An argument between Juergen Gansel and Peter Naumann — both members of the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) — escalated into a fist fight, during which Gansel was punched in the face. The brawl took place on Tuesday in the NPD’s corridor in Saxony’s parliament building in Dresden. Relations between the two have been strained for some time, the spokesman said, confirming an earlier report in the Leipziger Volkszeitung.

Czech police accuse suspected neo-Nazis over attack on Jew

Czech police accuse suspected neo-Nazis over attack on Jew – ČeskéNoviny.cz

The Czech police have accused three young men, probably fans of neo-Nazism, whom they suspect of attacking a German-speaking man in Prague due to what they supposed to be his religion, city police spokesman Tomas Hulan said. According to CTK’s information, the 52-year-old victim was of Jewish faith. The police have proposed that the three suspects be taken into custody. They face up to five years in prison, if found guilty of breach of the peace and causing bodily harm to others in connection with their religion. The police believe that the three men, two aged 23 and one 21, assaulted the man in the centre of Prague on Tuesday evening due to his religion that was evident from the clothes he had on. „First, they loudly shouted at him, offending his religion,“ Hulan said. After the verbal attack, the assailants also attacked the man physically, using cobblestones. A cobblestone hit the victim’s leg. The assailants kicked him repeatedly.

Jewish heritage in Poland jeopardized by lack of funds

AFP: Jewish heritage in Poland jeopardized by lack of funds

Too poor and too few, Poland’s several thousand Jews lack the resources to preserve their heritage, still in jeopardy after the destruction wrought by the Nazis and decades of communism. „It’s urgent. If we don’t react now, in 10 years, there will be even more ruins,“ laments Monika Krawczyk, head of the Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland (FODZ). Prior to World War II some 10,000 synagogues and houses of worship served Poland’s community of more than three million Jews, while today there are just several hundred — often in very poor repair. Jan Jagielski from the Warsaw-based Jewish Historical Institute has found only 321 former houses of prayer inside Poland’s post-WWII borders. Of the 1,056 pre-war Jewish cemeteries he has catalogued, 280 are empty while 376 were demolished to make way for buildings, parks, a football stadium in the town of Kleczew, or quite simply for farmers’ fields.

Racism Rears Its Head in European Remarks on Obama

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Europe erupted in cheers to celebrate Barack Obama’s election as president, but the continent is seeing its share of insensitive racial blunders, too. Over the past week, a number of European lawmakers and journalists have made foot-in-mouth comments regarding America’s black president-elect, suggesting that some otherwise respected public figures in Europe are far from enlightened on racial matters. The day after Obama’s victory, a leading Austrian television journalist said on camera that he „wouldn’t want the Western world to be directed by a black man.“ A Polish lawmaker stood up in Parliament and called the election result „the end of the white man’s civilization.“ One of the milder gaffes came from Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. On Thursday, during a visit to Moscow, he praised Obama for being „young, handsome and even suntanned.“ Berlusconi’s remark caused a stir in Italy, as critics chided him for sounding like a fool. But the prime minister was unrepentant. „What’s the problem? It was a compliment,“ he told journalists the next day. Anyone who did not get the joke, he added, was an „imbecile.“ Some racist comments have come from people who have expressed such views before. „Africa Conquers the White House,“ read a headline on the Web site of the National Democratic Party of Germany, a political party that sympathizes with neo-Nazi groups. In an accompanying article, Jürgen Gansel, a party leader and an elected lawmaker in the German state of Saxony, blamed Obama’s victory on „the American alliance of Jews and Negroes.“

Right-wing Rome mayor leads Auschwitz trip

Right-wing Rome mayor leads Auschwitz trip | JTA – Jewish & Israel News

The right-wing mayor of Rome is leading a group of 300 Roman high school students on a trip to Auschwitz. This week’s study and memorial trip guided by Gianno Alemanno to the former Nazi death camp in Poland continues a tradition started by his predecessor, Walter Veltroni. This year it coincided with both the 70th anniversary of the Kristallnacht pogrom in Germany and the promulgation of anti-Semitic racial laws by the Italian fascist government of Benito Mussolini. Speaking Monday at Auschwitz, Alemanno said the trip „allows us to comprehend the history of Europe and the darkest part of the human soul.“ Its lessons, the right-wing mayor said, were „not only for the past but also for the future, and to reject any form of discrimination, intolerance and hatred.“

No. 2 Klan group on trial in Ky. teen’s beating

The Herald | HeraldOnline.com – No. 2 Klan group on trial in Ky. teen’s beating – Rock Hill, SC

The 28-acre compound that the nation’s second-largest Ku Klux Klan outfit calls home features a high gate with armed guards, a stage for the group’s annual gatherings and an open field for burning crosses. The Southern Poverty Law Center wants to take it all away. On these tranquil grounds amid western Kentucky’s low, rolling hills, the Imperial Klans of America incited members to severely beat a Latino teen at a county fair, the civil rights group contends in a lawsuit. The center hopes its case will bankrupt this Klan group, a tactic the center has used to decimate other racist organizations. Jury selection begins Wednesday in Meade County, about 40 miles south of Louisville and 120 miles from the compound. „We want to put a stop to this kind of violence,“ said Richard Cohen, president of the center, which is suing on behalf of the victim. „They issue thinly veiled calls to violence.“