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 […]
Shock neo-nazi council victory in German elections
Election successes for AfD including their significant advances in last weekend’s local elections at various levels in North Rhein-Westphalia (NRW) have pushed Germany’s other far-right parties into the shadows. But in one small NRW town a neo-nazi party last weekend began what its allies hope will be a comeback for that side of the racist […]
Sacking signals split in far right intellectual wing
Today the racist movement’s self-styled intellectual wing is again at war with itself, after the world’s leading far-right publisher sacked its chief editor in a fierce row over his close ties to Moscow. Recent Searchlight reports have highlighted the increasing bitterness of internal far right splits over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. These splits began well […]
UK-linked nazi group tries to start race war in Spain
The new Spanish nazi group Núcleo Nacional, whose masked leader was exposed in a recent Searchlight article, has wasted no time before trying to start a race war on Madrid’s streets. They have close ties to British nazis via Isabel Peralta, the European correspondent of Heritage and Destiny, who has twice spoken at H&D conferences […]
Mark Collett fundraising for Aussie nazi who led attack on Indigenous Peoples’ camp
Patriotic Alternative führer Mark Collett is today raising funds for a violent Australian nazi. On his social media accounts, Collett has published a financial appeal for Thomas Sewell, leader of the National Socialist Network, who is charged with leading a mob of fellow nazis in a violent attack on an indigenous people’s camp in Melbourne. […]
Revealed: mystery man behind launch of new Spanish nazi party
An investigation by Searchlight’s contacts in Spain has uncovered the identity of a masked man behind the launch of a new Spanish nazi party – and the reasons he wants to hide. Also involved is one of the best known younger Spanish nazis, Isabel Peralta, who has twice spoken at nazi conferences in the UK […]
Obituary: Horst Mahler (1936-2025), from left-wing terrorist to leading nazi and holocaust denier
German security forces are on alert after the death of Horst Mahler, the Baader-Meinhof terrorist who became one of Europe’s most poisonous antisemites. Mahler was for years the intellectual godfather for Germany’s most violent nazis, some of whom are already facing trial accused of terrorist offences, coup plots and assassination plans. There are fears his […]
Nick Tenconi’s US mates join Epstein child abuse cover-up
The American parent organisation of Nick Tenconi’s Turning Point UK has caved in to pressure from President Trump and dropped demands for the release of the notorious Jeffrey Epstein paedophile ‘client list’. Despite loudly calling for the release of the list until last weekend, Turning Point USA founder and leader Charlie Kirk has now surrendered […]