Far-right infiltration of the security services: a global watch thread

[stolinski]

a rather minor recent instance - Swastika was scrawled in area of police station accessible only to staff

 

[likesfish]

Apprantly the far right are way way behind Islamists in getting jailed but are the new up and coming threat.
They also tend to be more criminal minded.

 

[dylanredefined]

What do you think of this one? Paras gonna para? Or symptom of a wider malaise?

British soldiers ‘with Nazi flags and Hitler pictures racially abused black colleagues’

Probably racists thinking their clever.
Some soldiers swallow the kool aid that the SS were super soldiers and the Rhodesian forces were super awesome as well. Easily mistaken as far right racists. When they don't see anything than cool war stories pratts.

 

[rekil]

Recent German stuff.

Neo-Nazi scandal hits German elite military unit | DW | 01.12.2019

Right-wing extremists in Germany to face amped up intelligence | DW | 17.12.2019

 

[yield]

Germany to restructure special forces to tackle far-right leanings Outline - Read & annotate without distractions
FT. June 30, 2020

Germany’s defence minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer will dissolve part of the country’s special forces and restructure the elite military division, after some of its members were found to have radical rightwing sympathies.

The second company within the Kommando Spezialkräfte (KSK) will be disbanded, according to a defence ministry report seen by the Financial Times, while the roughly 1,400-strong force is to be stripped of control over its training.

Germany is attempting to counter a rising trend of rightwing extremism. In February, a man with far-right beliefs killed 10 people, most of them immigrants, in Hanau, and another far-right sympathiser attacked a synagogue in Halle in October.

In 2018, a suspected far-right sympathiser killed a politician from chancellor Angela Merkel’s ruling Christian Democratic Union party, known for his welcoming stance toward refugees.

Attention has also turned to Germany’s military forces in recent years, particularly the KSK, amid media reports and secret service investigations of potential extremist plots and sympathisers within its ranks.

 

[DaveCinzano]

German neo-nazis compiled a hit list, apparently with state information (and state assistance?):

German far-right group 'used police data to compile death list'

Follow up in NYT today:

Body Bags and Enemy Lists: How Far-Right Police Officers and Ex-Soldiers Planned for ‘Day X’ (Published 2020)

Germany has woken up to a problem of far-right extremism in its elite special forces. But the threat of neo-Nazi infiltration of state institutions is much broader.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Streathamite]

I find it quite amusing.

'Populism' ie, the mass of the people indicating that they are unsatisfied with the status quo is wrong. Really?

What it actually means is that the left leaning, educated, prosperous elite are shitting themselves, because their largely undeserved positions of privilege are under threat.

sorry crap, and sub-daily mail crap at that. The only 'elite' are the Capital class, namely those who control the wealth, the meansd of production, diistrinution and exchange.
If you take the right-populist argument to its' logical conclusion, a sociology lecturer at a redbrick uni is elite...and Arron banks isn't, and stuart wheeler wasn't

 

[LDC]

Quite likely not far right, but doesn't deserve a thread of its own, and thought this best place for it. WTF was going on here?

French intelligence agents charged with attempted murder

Police discover agents in stolen car with false plates while plot to kill woman was not part of duties

www.theguardian.com

 

[two sheds]

Great subhead - suggests that killing women normally is part of duties.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Hannam grounded pending trial:

Police officer accused of being member of neo-Nazi terrorist group appears in court

Benjamin Hannam has been banned from leaving the UK ahead of a trial

www.independent.co.uk