On Tuesday this week a group of nazis and conspiracy theorists tried to insult the memory of Adolf Hitler’s victims by staging a Holocaust denial conference coinciding with Holocaust Memorial Day. They failed, because for once an internet service provider refused to do business with nazis and cancelled their account. Thankfully not every online business […]
Australian police investigate neo-nazi threat to PM
Australian police are investigating a kidnap threat against Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, uncovered in a private far‑right chatroom. Members of a closed neo-nazi Telegram group discussed abducting the Prime Minister, and talked of hiring a van and raising several thousand dollars to carry out the plan. Albanese later acknowledged he had been briefed about it, […]
German nazis on trial for plotting state overthrow
Eight young men stand trial in Dresden this week, accused of belonging to a banned neo-nazi group calling itself the “Saxon Separatists” and of planning an armed overthrow of the German state. The Saxon Separatists emerged in 2020 in Brandis, a small town near Leipzig in the eastern state of Saxony. According to federal prosecutors, […]
Georgia police round up fascists behind wave of ‘brutal’ attacks
Georgian police have arrested 16 alleged fascists accused of a string of violent attacks across the country. According to Tbilisi police, the suspects – including 10 minors under 18 – are neo-Nazis who had attacked a wide range of victims. Police allege the group inflicted “physical and psychological violence with particular brutality,” in some cases […]
Australian nazis shut up shop faced with legal threat
One of Australia’s most visible neo-Nazi organisations has announced plans to dissolve faced with the rapid passage of new federal anti-hate crime legislation. In a message circulated on Telegram this week, the National Socialist Network said it would wind up all activity within days, citing fears that existing and former members could face prosecution under […]
German Blood & Honour nazi flees arrest after second gender change bid
A member of the neo‑Nazi Blood & Honour till it was banned has become the subject of a nationwide manhunt in Germany after fleeing the country while attempting to register a gender change for the second time. For many in Germany, the name Sven “Marla‑Svenja” Liebich is synonymous with the country’s post‑1990s neo‑nazi subculture. His […]
‘Pro-Putin’ German AfD invited to European security conference
The Munich Security Conference is known for its carefully managed setting. Each February, political leaders, diplomats and military officials gather in a central Munich hotel to discuss global security issues. Informal exchanges alongside formal panels often shape strategic debates that continue throughout the year. Against that backdrop, the MSC’s recent decision to invite MPs from […]
Obituary: Brigitte Bardot (1934-2025), from screen idol to far-right icon
Brigitte Bardot, who has died aged 91, once the most photographed woman in Europe and a symbol of post‑war cinematic modernity, spent the latter half of her life not in the spotlight of film but in the trenches of France’s extreme‑right politics. Her transformation from international sex symbol to ideological fellow‑traveller of the nationalist right […]
Key international nazi with UK links killed in Ukraine
A leading Russian nazi, with links to the far right in the UK, was killed on Xmas Day in a Russian drone attack while fighting for Ukraine. Denis Nikitin, aka Denis Kapustin aka “White Rex”, was killed on the Zaporizhzhia front, marking the end of a career that fused violent neo-nazi activism, combat entrepreneurship, and […]
German AfD ‘serving Russian intelligence’
Germany’s AfD party has again been accused of acting in the interests of Vladimir Putin’s Russia, once more highlighting the convergence of Russian strategic interests and the activities of sections of the European far right. In the eastern German state of Thuringia, Ringo Mühlmann, an AfD member of the local Parliament, has drawn growing criticism […]
Anger over possible release of German nazi terrorist
This week, the German courts were again having to confront the case of the terrorist National Socialist Underground, which went on a rampage of racist murders a quarter of a century ago. At a hearing to consider the process of releasing Beate Zschäpe, a founder of the group, the daughter of one of its murdered […]
Veteran Euro-nazi makes comeback at terrorist-run conference
On the same weekend that Nick Griffin was trying to return to the limelight in Madrid, an even older nazi, who’s just as disliked by the rest of the jackboot tendency, made his own comeback at a conference run by the terrorist Nordic Resistance Movement near Gothenburg, Sweden. Povl Riis-Knudsen first became politically active aged […]
Gone-to-seed Griffin is past his sell-by date
Nick Griffin’s big comeback in Madrid on 23 November only proved that he is yesterday’s man. Perhaps that’s putting it too kindly. Griffin is ten or fifteen years past his sell-by date. He’s now 66, a year older than John Tyndall was at the time of the 1999 leadership contest when Griffin was describing the […]
US bans Patriotic Alternative boss Mark Collett
As reported recently by Searchlight, America’s best known racist Jared Taylor now seems free to travel around Europe spreading his message of hate, even though he was banned from the entire Schengen area for several years. In particular, he was allowed into the UK to speak at last month’s conference of Mark Collett’s neo-nazi outfit, […]
Once-banned US racist now travels freely in Europe
One of America’s most notorious racists, Jared Taylor, is being allowed to travel freely around Europe and the UK, even though he was banned from the entire Schengen area a few years ago. Taylor turns up on both the relatively mainstream wing of the racist movement (with ties to far-right conservative parties and the fringe […]
Nick Griffin to be star speaker at fascist pro-Putin fest
Some of Europe’s most extreme fascists – including the UK’s Nick Griffin – are heading to Madrid later this month for an international gathering where the far right’s pro-Putinism will be on noisy display. Several of those hosting the event conference were at the recent St Petersburg event run by Aleksandr Dugin and the Putinist […]
The Russian spy network that targeted Brexit Party MEPs
When Anton Shekhovtsov, a Ukrainian researcher of Europe’s far right and a former Searchlight contributor, published his forensic 2021 study “The Niedźwiecki case: The Rise and Fall of a Polish Agent of the Kremlin Influence”, it appeared at first glance to be a niche story about a Polish activist accused of espionage. But also featuring […]
Obituary: Antonio Tejero (1932-2025), Civil Guard officer who led failed fascist coup in Spain
European fascists are mourning the death of the last man to attempt an old-school fascist coup, Lt Col Antonio Tejero of the Spanish Civil Guard, who died this morning aged 93. Veteran Searchlight readers will remember him as, resembling Peter Sellers, he stormed into Madrid’s parliament on 23 February 1981 with heavily armed fellow Guard […]
Smirking Robinson wrecks chances of Israeli football fans watching Aston Villa game
When the Israeli football team Maccabi Tel Aviv visit Villa Park on 6 November for a Europa League fixture, there will be no away fans in the stands – not because of football rivalry, but because of fears that extremists could hijack the event. And at the centre of the controversy sits Tommy Robinson, whose […]
Austrian army colonel held as police raid far-right ‘weapons exercise’
Well-connected European nazis and extreme conspiracy theorists are under investigation after heavily-armed police raided a weapons training camp in Austria ten days ago. Attention has focussed particularly on the involvement of a senior officer in the Austrian army. On Saturday 11 October, 19 men and women gathered at a rural property in Vorchdorf, district of […]