According to a report by the civil rights group the Southern Poverty Law Center the Order of Nine Angles "holds an important position in the niche, international nexus of occult, esoteric, and/or satanic neo-Nazi groups." [1] Several newspapers have reported that the O9A is linked to a number of high-profile figures from the far right [2] [3] and that the group is affiliated and shares members with neo-Nazi terrorist groups such as Atomwaffen Division and proscribed National Action, Sonnenkrieg Division, Combat 18 and Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM). [4] [5] [6] [7] Also the leader of the eco-extremist terrorist Individualists Tending to the Wild claimed to have been influenced by the O9A. [8]
Allegations have been made by antifascist organisations, several British politicians and the media that the O9A condones and encourages sexual abuse, and this has been given as one of the reasons why the O9A should be proscribed by the British government. Many O9A members openly view rape as an effective way to undermine society by transgressing against its norms. White Star Acception commits rapes by their own admission and O9A texts such as "The Dreccian Way", "Iron Gates", "Bluebird" and "The Rape Anthology" recommend and praise rape and pedophilia, even suggesting rape is necessary for "ascension of the Ubermensch". To advance in rank, ONA member must perform assaults, lynching and sexual assault being the most recommended. [9] [10] [11] Material promoting pedophilia has also appeared in ONA's in house magazines Fenrir and Drums of Tophet, the latter of which also contained "borderline [child porn]". [12] [13] According to BBC News, "the authorities are concerned by the number of paedophiles associated with the ONA". [14]
Consequently, ONA has been linked to hundreds of cases of terrorism and child sexual abuse.
In the summer of 1997 two members of the Swedish O9A group called Misanthropic Luciferian Order perpetrated the so-called Keillers Park murder, an alleged ritual sacrifice of an Algerian man. The men were eventually convicted of a hate crime. [4] [15]
In 2024, the FBI released files stating that a string of 2019 arson attacks against Black churches were connected to the ONA. [16]
On 23 September 2019, Specialist [17] Jarrett William Smith, 24, of Fort Riley, Kansas, was charged with distributing information related to explosives and weapons of mass destruction. Assistant US Attorney Anthony Mattivi alleged in federal court that Smith distributed explosives information and was planning on assassinating federal agents with three other people "for the glory of his Satanist religion". [18] On 10 February 2020, Smith pleaded guilty to two counts of distributing information related to explosives, destructive devices and weapons of mass destruction and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison. [19] [20]
A US paratrooper named Ethan Melzer in the 173rd Airborne Brigade's Sky Soldiers, who was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, in Vicenza, Italy, in 2019 until 2020, plotted an ambush on his unit, "to result in the deaths of as many of his fellow service members as possible." He was charged in June 2020 with conspiring and attempting to murder military service members, and providing and attempting to provide material support to terrorists. The paratrooper was charged with leaking classified information (including the unit's location and security) to his co-conspirators in the RapeWaffen nexion and the Order of the Nine Angles (O9A). [21] [22] In June 2022 he pled guilty to three charges and on March 3, 2023, Melzer was sentenced to 45 years in prison. [23] [24]
After Melzer was exposed, several other active members of the US military were also discovered to be members of the O9A. Corwyn Storm Carver was found to be another member in communication with the group and in possession of O9A paraphernalia and literature while stationed in Kuwait. Shandon Simpson, member of the Ohio Army National Guard sent to quell the George Floyd protests in Washington, D.C. openly espoused neo-Nazi views and was also found to be in the RapeWaffen. Simpson told that he was planning to shoot the protesters as part of "racial holy war" and was intercepted by the FBI but only after he had already been deployed. [25] [26]
In January 2020, O9A follower Luke Austin Lane and two accomplices were arrested for allegedly stockpiling weapons and plotting to kill an antifascist couple and their young children. In preparation Lane along with dozen other people had engaged in paramilitary training and sacrificed a ram, drank its blood and consumed psychedelic drugs in an occult ritual on his property. [27]
The British political advocacy group Hope not Hate reported in March 2020 that there were six cases of neo-Nazis connected to O9A being prosecuted for terrorist offenses during the year alone. [28]
In March 2020, Hope not Hate began a campaign to have the Order of Nine Angles banned, proscribed, as a terrorist group, a campaign supported by several British members of Parliament including the Labour Party's Yvette Cooper, Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee. [14] [29] [30]
On 18 September 2020, Toronto Police arrested 34-year-old Guilherme "William" Von Neutegem and charged him with the murder of Mohamed-Aslim Zafis. Zafis was the caretaker of a local mosque who was found dead with his throat cut. The Toronto Police Service said the killing is possibly connected to the stabbing murder of Rampreet Singh a few days prior a short distance from the spot where Zafis' murder took place. Von Neutegem is a member of the O9A and social media accounts established as to belonging to him promote the group and included recordings of Von Neutegem performing satanic chants. In his home there was also an altar with the symbol of the O9A adorning a monolith. [31] According to Evan Balgord of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, they are aware of more O9A members in Canada, and their affiliated organization Northern Order. CAHN reported previously of the Northern Order when a member in Canadian Armed Forces was caught selling firearms and explosives to other neo-Nazis. [32] [33] [34] [35] [36]
Canadian Armed Forces launched an internal investigation in October 2020 after a special forces soldier with the CJIRU was identified as a member of the Northern Order and Order of Nine Angles. According to the SPLC, the man is among "some pretty well-known, high-up people in these organizations" and an acquaintance of James Mason and the former Master Corporal Patrik Mathews who was previously exposed as a recruiter for the Northern Order and Base in Canada. [37] [38]
Danyal Hussein who killed two sisters, Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman in a Wembley park in London was "closely associated" with the Order of Nine Angles and took part in O9A internet forum. He killed the two women to fulfill a "demonic pact". [39] In response MP Stephanie Peacock called on the Home Secretary to proscribe the O9A. [40] In Russia four members of the Order of Nine Angles were arrested after two confessed to ritual murders involving cannibalism in Karelia and Saint Petersburg. Two of them were also accused of large-scale drug trafficking as a large amount of narcotics was found in their home. [41] [42] [43] [44]
On 11 December 2020, the UK based video hosting service BitChute removed all O9A material for violating the site's anti-terror policy, citing O9A's "close connections with other proscribed organisations". [45] The same month Yahoo! News acquired a report by the US National Counterterrorism Center, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security circulated to U.S. intelligence agencies, assessing that the O9A poses a violent threat and that it plays an influential role among right-wing terror groups. The report however added that the O9A was rejected by certain groups for inciting its members to commit rape and pedophilia. [46]
In January 2021, after the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol, discussion about proscribing far-right groups was renewed by the Public Safety Minister Bill Blair, and the O9A was named by experts as one of the most dangerous groups in Canada whose proscription is a priority. [47] In April 2021, Democratic Representative Elissa Slotkin pressed Joe Biden's administration to designate O9A as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation (FTO) in a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken. [3] The Sonnenkrieg Division was officially proscribed in Australia on March 22, 2021, with its adherence to "violent white-supremacist ideology inspired by the Nazi Party and the Satanic 'Order of Nine Angles' movement" cited as the reason. [48] [49]
On 12 August 2021, Ben John was convicted of terrorist offences after an 11-month investigation by the Counter Terrorism Command. The statement by Lincolnshire police stated that "John had a wealth of white supremist and anti-Semitic material, as well as material related to the Satanist organisation called the Order of Nine Angles (ONA), which is increasingly under the focus of law enforcement." [50] In October 2021, Facebook and Instagram banned O9A member E. A. Koetting whose page had 128,000 subscribers for inciting murder. [51] In November 2021 roughly two dozen federal agents in body armor arrested Angel Almeida for possessing illegal weapons. According to New York Daily News Almeida was member of the O9A. [52]
On 1 February 2021, a Cornish man said to have been the leader of the UK branch of the Feuerkrieg Division plead guilty to 12 terrorism offences. Police had previously raided his home in 2019 for firearms and had found bomb building instructions and O9A literature. [53] [54]
In 2022 Finnish Security Intelligence Service also singled out O9A as a source of radicalization and concern in the country. [55] As of November 2023 Finnish police was investigating at least three terrorism cases connected to ONA. [56] According to Iltalehti, Finnish ONA that has its central nexion in Tampere [57] is potentially connected to unsolved murder cases in the city. [58]
The FBI officially considers ONA nexion 764 and its offshoots terrorist organizations. According to Global Project Against Hate and Extremism", "[764] operates within the framework of the broader O9A, which advocates the destruction of society through criminal acts such as violence, sexual assault, murder, and terrorism [and] is implicated in a network of online cults that exploit and groom children." [59] According to FBI bulletin, to join people are required to share a video of child sexual abuse or murder they committed, preferably targeting minorities. [60] Because of 764's affiliation with ONA, it is considered to “directly threaten the national or economic security of the United States.” by the FBI and Department of Justice. FBI assigns 10 new cases related to 764 every week, which it considers "category 1" terror threat. [61] 17-year-old "Luca" cut the throat of an elderly Roma woman in Romania on April 12, 2022, and recorded the killing and shared it with his ONA group. [9] [62] [63]
A German man suspected of killing his family is suspected of being a member of the ONA. [64] A girlfriend of Atomwaffen Division's founder Brandon Russell, Sarah Beth Clendaniel, has been charged with planning attacks on electric substations in the Baltimore area. Clendaniel is an O9A member according to her social media posts. [65] In 2023 ONA and 764 member Vincent Charlton of Gateshead pleaded guilty to multiple terror offenses and had allegedly planned bombing a school. He was sentenced to two years and four months in prison. [66] 764 member Cameron Finnigan of Denne Park has been charged with terror offenses for planning attacks on homeless people. [67]
An underage boy is accused of committing a string of attempted murders by stabbing in Hässelby, Sweden and filming the acts. The boy is associated with 764, Atomwaffen and Maniac Murder Cult. [68] [69] [70] [71] The police have connected additional at least eight attacks to the network and are "working with the assumption there are more". Sveriges Television confirmed they had seen videos of more attacks but that they could not be conclusively linked to the series of attacks. [72] On August 16, 2024, Curtis Hodges of Kentucky, a 764-member, called in a bomb threat to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office, resulting in the office being shut down and a bomb squad being deployed. [73] On October 30, 2024, a Canadian Atomwaffen and ONA member named Alexander Moucka was arrested. Moucka is alleged to have hacked the customer information from 160 companies and extorting them with it. AT&T alone paid $370,000 to get the stolen information removed. [74] In November 2024, alleged ONA member Alan Filion plead guilty making almost 400 swatting attacks and bomb threats against places of worship and government offices and members. According to Wired he did these attacks for pay and to disrupt the government to bring about "the end of days". Filion also ran private chat groups dedicated to extortion and sharing child abuse material and allegedly sought to buy guns to commit a mass shooting. [75]
Ryan Fleming of Yorkshire-based O9A nexion Drakon Covenant was sentenced to three years in jail for the rape of a 14-year-old girl, after already having been convicted of sexual assault and torture of a minor. [76]
In November 2019, a Durham teen who according to the BBC News adheres to "occult nazism" and "influenced by the ONA, [sought] to alter himself in line with their literature" was found guilty of preparing a terrorist attack. In addition to the terror offences, he is charged with sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl. [77] [78] [79] He was eventually convicted of five sexual assaults in addition to the terror offenses. [80]
O9A member Andrew Dymock, who was convicted of 15 terror offences, has also been questioned by the police regarding the sexual assault of a teenage girl who had Nazi and occult symbols carved on her body. [81] [82] [83] In July 2020, another O9A member Jacek Tchorzewski was convicted by Harrow Crown Court for terror offences and for possessing over 500 pictures and videos depicting children as young as six being raped and necrophilia. Tchorzewski also possessed Nazi and "satanist literature depicting rape and paedophilia". Tchorzewski's co-defendant Michal Szewczuk "ran a blog that encouraged the rape and torture of opponents, including small children" and was likewise sentenced to four years in prison for terror offences. Ethan Melzer also belonged to an encrypted O9A chatroom where members encouraged one another to perpetrate sexual violence and shared videos of these rapes. [84] [14] [85] [86] [87]
In March 2020, a prominent O9A member and former leader of Atomwaffen Division John Cameron Denton was accused by prosecutors of possessing and sharing child pornography of sexual abuse of a young underage girl by his group, in addition to making 134 death and bomb threats against reporters and minority communities. [88] [89] On 2 September 2020, another member Harry Vaughan plead guilty to 14 terrorism offenses and possession of child pornography A police search of his house uncovered videos of brutal rapes of children, documents showing how to build bombs, detonators, firearms, and "satanic, neo-nazi" ONA books advising rape and murder. In addition to this he was described in the Old Bailey as a firearms enthusiast and living with his two young sisters at the time of the arrest. [90] [91]
Five Finns were also arrested for sexually abusing multiple children, according to the police the activities involved "nazism and satanism" and consumption of methamphetamine. [92] [93]
In February 2021, ONA offshoot "Cvlt" member Kaleb Christopher Merritt was arrested for raping and abducting a twelve-year-old girl from Henry County, Virginia. Merritt was sentenced to 350 years of prison, eligible for release on parole after 33 years. [94] [95]
Ryan Fleming was jailed again in 2021 for grooming underage children. [96]
In Sweden NRM affiliate and ONA adherent Alexander Andersson has been arrested and charged with "aggravated rape against children" and he is suspected of offenses against 15 girls between the ages of 4 and 14. He is also accused of possessing 12 hours of child porn. [97] [98] [99] [100]
In September 2022, 764 member William JohnScott Tulko was arrested for possessing child porn. He described himself in Discord as “Unfathomably based father with a rape loving daughter.” [101]
Angel Almeida, a 22-year-old ONA member from Queens, has been charged with sexual exploitation of minors and possession of child porn, among other alleged crimes. Almeida coerced two minors into partaking in sexual activities to create child porn, according to the Department of Justice. He allegedly sold child porn to fund distribution of ONA material. [102] Luca Benincasa was sentenced to nine years and three months at Winchester Crown Court in January 2023. He had instructions on bomb making and was a recruiter and "prominent member" of the Feuerkrieg Division and ONA. He pleaded guilty to terrorism offences and possession of child porn. [103] In June 2023, Vaughan plead guilty to new charges for his production of child pornography. [104]
According to law enforcement documents acquired by the Guardian, one nexion of ONA called 764 alone is suspected of having abused hundreds of children. [64] The FBI arrested Kalana Limkin in early December 2023 and he has been charged with possession of child porn and sexually abusing minors. He had also forced young girls to carve his name on their bodies. Limkin is the alleged leader of 764 offshoot "Cultist". [105]
Nevada National Guard and 764 member Chandler Harrison Pong was charged with "possessing child pornography, using a minor to produce porn and luring a child for a sex act." Pong was initially investigated for producing untraceable ghost guns, until the police found child porn in his possession. During the interrogation, Pong freely admitted to having a relationship with a girl while between the ages of 12 and 14 years. Another 764 member, Bradley Cadenhead of Texas, plead guilty to nine counts of possessing child porn. Cadenhead not only possessed videos of rapes, but also videos of children being tortured. He was sentenced to 80 years in jail. [9] [106] [107]
ONA and 764 member Richard Densmore (aka "Rabid"), a US Marine was arrested on January 31, 2024, in Kaleva, Michigan, and faced possible life in prison for sexual exploitation of a child and possession of child porn. According to the motion by the Department of Justice, Densmore would stream mutilation and sexual abuse of children. [108] [109] [110] [111] Densmore already had a prior conviction for a sexual offense involving a minor. In November 2024 Densmore was sentenced to 30 years in prison. [61] A Lethbridge teen who is a member of 764 was charged with making and distributing child pornography and making of explosives in February 2024. [112] [113] 764 member Kyle Spitze, who was involved in a domestic dispute which lead to a death in a shootout with the police, was arrested by US Marshals on February 21, 2024. According to Wired, Spitze possessed child porn of a 12-year-old girl he had forced her to partake in and had victimized a number of girls as young as 10 years old. [114] [115]
Another leading member of 764, Kierre Anthony Cutler ("MK Ultra"), possessed what was described as "over 700 images of the worst child exploitation [Det. Brasco] has observed in his career. Nearly every image of child sexual exploitation showed the child to be bound or restrained and in many cases an element of sadism was observed.” [101] 764 member Vincent Charlton of Gateshead plead guilty to making child porn with a 13-year-old girl. [66]
Sergey Chulkov ("Nosferatu") allegedly raped a 14-year-old girl — several times in his car, then in an apartment on Moscow Zavodskaya Street. Chulkov is a member of a Russian nexion according to the police, was arrested with O9A literature and was tattooed with satanic occult symbols. [116]
"Rapewaffen" is a faction whose ideas have roots in Atomwaffen and in the Order of Nine Angles, and which encourages its adherents to rape white women in order to increase the number of white births. The ideology came to public attention following the arrest of a former U.S. Marine who had been plotting to rape women and attack a synagogue. [117]
Russian Federal Security Services arrested a group of satanists in April 2020 in Krasnodar suspected of "public calls to carry out extremist activities", incitement to murder due to religious and racial hatred, and criminal activities against women. The police also seized occult "extremist material" during the raids. They belonged to a group called Legion Ave Satan, a chapter of the O9A, [118] [119] using the Nazi Reichsadler grasping a pentagram and sword as its symbol. On their now-banned VKontakte page, they claimed nexions all over the CIS countries, promoted O9A, and identified as followers of "Traditional Satanism" and "pre-christian faith". [120] [121] They appeared in Russian media in 2018 when a teenager burned down a church in Republic of Karelia. The teenager had expressed his support for the Legion Ave Satan in VKontakte and posted pictures wearing a skull mask associated with Atomwaffen and O9A. He was sent to involuntary psychiatric treatment. The local nexion used an old poultry farm in Kondopoga for gatherings, and the group had lured children to prostitution according to Moskovskij Komsomolets. [122] [123] [124] As is the case elsewhere, the group is connected to the local Atomwaffen chapter. [125]
Four Russian members of the Order of Nine Angles were arrested for ritual murders in Karelia and Saint Petersburg in 2021. [42] [43] Nikolai Ogolobyak killed four girls in satanic rituals in Yaroslavl region in 2008. [126] Ogolobyak together with other members of the satanic sect beheaded the corpses, ate their tongues and hearts and had sex with the corpses. While Ogolobyak was sentenced to 20 years in a penal colony, others had 8-10 year sentences or were sent to mental institution. The group adhered to satanic Nazism, and one of the members, Alexander Voronov, was nicknamed "Hitler". [127] Ogolobyak was pardoned in 2023 after fighting in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. [126]
ONA literature has been banned on the territory of the Russian Federation as "extremist material". [128]
On August 19, 2024, Rusich asked for a Ukrainian prisoner to be surrendered to them for a human sacrifice for "autumnal equinox to encourage and strengthen the spirit of the new personnel of the unit". Rusich is affiliated with the Order of Nine Angles and its affiliated groups like Atomwaffen and Nordic Resistance Movement. [136] Later photos emerged of Rusich members "sacrificing and mutilating" a Chechen Akhmat fighter. [137] Newspaper "Contando Estrelas" pointed out that "last year, the Russian newspaper Izvestia linked the ONA to murders committed in the Karelia region", the location of the Russian central nexion, and now the region where Rusich is deployed. [130]
Russian ONA is part of a coalition of neo-Nazi groups taking part in Russian invasion of Ukraine consisting of Atomwaffen Russland, Rusich Group, and Russian Imperial Movement, with some overlap. [140] AAST (stylised as AAᛋT) is a mainly Russian ONA militant group linked to Atomwaffen fighting in Donbass and Ukraine and they post on social media about their "martyrdom" in the battlefield. [101]
On December 4, 2021, the Finnish police arrested a five-man cell in Kankaanpää on suspicion of planning a terror attack and confiscated numerous firearms, including assault rifles, and forty kilos of explosives and hundreds of litres of explosive precursors. According to the Finnish media, the men adhered to the ideology of Atomwaffen, James Mason and ONA Satanism. [146] The men are suspected of having planned to blow up a refugee centre in Niinisalo for which they had acquired explosives, and the men are suspected of homophobic assaults and arson of another refugee center. [147] [148] In July 2023 the Finnish police arrested five men in Lahti who possessed assault rifles and adhered to accelerationism and Siege and planned to ignite a race war by attacking the infrastructure, electric grid and railroads. [149] The men discussed forming a new Atomwaffen cell, and discussed assassinating Prime minister Sanna Marin. It was reported the men had at least planned training in Russia, and had met with Janus Putkonen who has been involved in recruiting Finns for the war in eastern Ukraine. Later Iltalehti confirmed the men had acquired training for the use of firearms and explosives from the Russian Imperial Movement. [150] Additionally the group committed burglaries against left-wing targets. [151] According to Finnish National Bureau of Investigation, both Finnish terrorist groups were connected to Order of Nine Angles and leaders of both groups adhered to the faith and possessed the same ONA books and one had even tattooed himself with O9A symbols. [152] [153] On October 31, 2023, the men from Lahti were convicted of terrorism offenses. A 29-year-old Viljam Nyman was sentenced to 3 years and 4 months. A man born in 2001 was sentenced to 7 months of probation and another man born in 1996 was sentenced to 1 year and 9 months. The fourth man was sentenced to 1 year and 2 months in jail. [150] The Finnish Police also surveyed an O9A adherent and associate of Nyman who was suspected of planning a ritual murder and was subsequently arrested. [154] The man is also suspected of a string of letter bombs sent to Social Democrat, Green and Left party offices. [155]
In addition to the central nexion in Tampere and the ones in Kankaanpää ("Nexion Vihtu") [156] and Lahti, Finland has at least two others, "Louhi Lodge" and "the Temple of the Black Sun". According to Izvestia investigation, the Temple is run by a Russian man living in Finland, and it has branches in Northwestern Russia, where initiates have performed rituals in Murmansk Oblast and Karelia bordering Finland. The network also runs the publishing house "Totenburg". Dozens of people involved in the Russian branch have taken part in the invasion of Ukraine, and Finnish members have visited training camps run by Russian neo-Nazis. Russian Temple members have been arrested for child sexual abuse. [159] According to Expo, Finnish ONA has organized firearm drills for its members. [160]
A far-right Finns Party Espoo city council member Jiri Keronen told that he "avows" the teachings of ONA and that he is republishing their works. Viljam Nyman had been member of the Lapland board of the Finns Party, and the Finnish member suspected of a string of letter bombs was a party ideologue, publishing dozens of articles in the Finns party organ. [161] [162] [163]
The Maniac Murder Cult (MKU) is an accelerationist group affiliated with the ONA/764 founded by Egor Krasnov, active in Russia and Ukraine. According to MKU's own texts, the group adheres to "nihilistic national socialism" and ONA Satanism. [68] According to the Terrorism Research & Analysis Consortium "members [are] taking pride in [...] attacking homeless people, immigrants, and LGBTQ communities, often filming themselves in beat-downs or even murdering these groups of people in Russia." In 2022 187 MKU members were detained by the Federal Security Service, and it is alleged that they were preparing “terrorist” attacks on civilians and government buildings. Russian officials have made the claim MKU is supported by Ukraine and is linked to arson attacks in Russia. Ukraine has denied the claims. Krasnov was in fact detained in Ukraine and he had reportedly boasted that he had killed at least 15 people. [170] In July 2024, a leader of MKU, Michail "Butcher" Chkhikvishvili, native of Georgia, was arrested and is facing 50 years in prison for a plot to poison Jewish people. Under him MKU co-operated with another Eastern European Nazi group Feuerkrieg Division, based in Estonia. [171] According to the Combating Terrorism Center MKU is responsible for at least 50 murders and 150 assaults with possibly more that have not been made public. MKU "allegedly made specific attempts to recruit individuals with experience/expertise in demolitions and/or chemical/biological weapons" to "graduate" from simple assault and murder to mass casualty event. MKU also implemented a system where aspiring members need to upload videos of assault or murder to be considered for membership. Members are graded with a system of "murder points", where members need to perpetrate acts of violence to be considered an active member. [68]
MKU claimed responsibility for June 23, 2024 bombing of a mosque in Fryazino, Russia. [172]
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The Base is a white supremacist and neo-Nazi accelerationist paramilitary group and training network, formed in 2018 by Rinaldo Nazzaro. It is active in the United States, Canada, Australia, South Africa, and Europe, and designated as a terrorist organization in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and the European Union.
The Russian Imperial Movement is a Russian ultranationalist and white supremacist militant organization which operates out of Russia. The group seeks to create a new Russian Empire. Its paramilitary wing is the Russian Imperial Legion. During the Donbas War, it recruited and trained thousands of far-right volunteers who joined the Russian separatist forces in Ukraine. It has also given training to other far-right groups in Europe and North America.
Iron March was a far-right neo-fascist and Neo-Nazi web forum. The site opened in 2011 and attracted neo-fascist and Neo-Nazi members, including militants from organized far-right groups and members who would later go on to commit acts of terror. The forum closed in 2017. Subsequently, former users moved to alternative websites and social networking services, such as Discord. In 2019, an anonymous individual leaked the database that hosted all Iron March content.
The Sabotage Assault Reconnaissance Group(DShRG) "Rusich" is a Russian far-right and neo-Nazi paramilitary unit that has been fighting against Ukrainian forces in the Russo-Ukrainian War. Its co-founder and leader is Alexey Milchakov and operates within the Wagner Group. "Rusich" fought on the side of pro-Russian military in the Donbas war from June 2014 to July 2015, and in the Russian invasion of Ukraine alongside Russian troops.
Terrorgram refers to a decentralized network of Telegram channels and accounts that subscribe to or promote militant accelerationism. Terrorgram channels are neo-fascist in ideology, and regularly share instructions and manuals on how to carry out acts of racially-motivated violence and anti-government terrorism. Terrorgram is a key communications forum for individuals and networks attached to Atomwaffen Division, The Base, and other explicit militant accelerationist groups.
The Active Club Network are decentralized cells of white supremacy and neo-Nazi groups active in many U.S. states, with multiple chapters in other nations. Largely inspired by the defunct street-fighting Rise Above Movement formed by Robert Rundo in 2017 and hooliganism, the network was created in January 2021 and promotes mixed martial arts to fight against what it asserts is a system that is targeting the white race, as well as a "warrior spirit" to prepare for a forthcoming race war. Some extremism researchers have characterized the network as a "shadow or stand-by army" which is awaiting activation as the need for it arises.
White jihad is a political neologism for white supremacists' adoption of jihadist methods, narratives and aesthetic.
764 is a decentralized transnational sextortion network with alleged ideological ties to the Order of Nine Angles. It is classified as a terror network by the U.S. Department of Justice, and is considered by the FBI as a "tier one" terrorist threat. The Canadian RCMP also classifies 764 as an "ideological violent extremist network", and it has been characterized as a "satanic neo-nazi cult" by multiple sources. The network is most present on Discord and Telegram and usually targets children ages 8 to 17, particularly marginalized children or those suffering from mental health challenges. Perpetrators are usually young men and men in their fourties. 764 was founded in 2021 by Bradley Cadenhead, a teenager from Stephenville, Texas, the group derives its name from the town's ZIP code.
The occultist Order of Nine Angles has a branch in the US. US soldier Jarret Smith is allegedly a member of the group
Finally, the Nordic Resistance Movement also has a long history with O9A that predates its ties to Iron March. Haakon Forwald, head of the Norwegian branch from 2010 to 2019, was a devotee of a Scandinavian O9A current variously known as the Misanthropic Luciferian Order, the Temple of Black Light, and Current 218.88 The magazine of the Finnish branch of the Nordic Resistance Movement featured articles on O9A spiritual practices and on the work of Kerry Bolton of the Black Order
A purported leader of the transnational militant group Individuals Tending Toward the Wild (ITS) — a group whose literature features anarchist and eco-fascist themes — claimed in an interview posted on the anarchist website Maldición Eco-Extremista that the group has "taken some organizational experiences" from O9A and Tempel ov Blood.
One piece of propaganda the group produced is called The Rape Anthology, a collection of ONA writings praising Hitler, Satan and rape, while employing Islamic terminology and demonizing Jews and minorities. Some of the essays suggest that rape is necessary for the ascension of the Ubermensch.
Over the last 12 months four nazis convicted of terrorist offences have been linked to O9A, and there are two more cases pending.
The Sonnenkrieg Division, with its glorification of sexual violence, highlights another disturbing theme relating to the ONA – sexual offending as a way of undermining social norms. ... The authorities are concerned by the number of paedophiles associated with the ONA, taking the group into a different area of law enforcement activity.
The satanist text demonstrated a 'marked fixation with blood, the sexualisation of violence, a paedophilic projection of adult sexuality onto children, and with achieving National Socialist political goals through political violence and acts of terrorism'.
ONA's Nazi-Satanist ideology, a supernatural worldview that encourages the disruption of society through violence, criminality and sexual offending.
Over the last 12 months four nazis convicted of terrorist offences have been linked to O9A, and there are two more cases pending.
Today, [O9A] adherents are infiltrating and influencing a new generation of neo-Nazi terrorist groups like Atomwaffen Division Canada [Northern Order]
Московская полиция задержала двух сатанистов, которые сознались в нескольких убийствах и каннибализме, сообщила «Фонтанка» и Telegram-канал Mash со ссылкой на источники.[Moscow police detained two Satanists who confessed to several murders and cannibalism, Fontanka and the Mash Telegram channel reported , citing sources.]
På kort tid har polisen utrett tre terroristiska brott med kopplingar till högerextremism och satanism.
For instance, the 'AWD cell' in Finland claimed to be a nexion of ONA in Tampere.
The group 764 and its offshoot, Cultist, have been officially labeled as terrorist organizations by the FBI due to their association with The Order of Nine Angles (O9A). The FBI emphasizes the extreme nature of these groups' activities, urging caution online and promoting awareness of signs of self-harm or suicidal ideation in minors. The classification of 764 and Cultist as terrorist organizations underscores the need for public vigilance against their harmful actions.
SKD's leader Andrew Dymock and other NA members began feuding with the organization when NA rejected their growing interest in Satanism, pedophilia, and rape ... SKD's ideology has been deeply influenced by the neo-Nazi occult beliefs of the Order of Nine Angles (O9A). Dymock, the leader of SKD, is believed to be close to NA leader Garron Helm and O9A leader Ryan Fleming, the head of that group's chapter in Yorkshire, England.
Ryan Fleming, involved with both National Action and the O9A, was highlighted in the report. He has been jailed for sexually abusing a young girl and a young man
Under Denton's leadership, AWD's ideology also became increasingly influenced ... the Order of Nine Angles (O9A). The group added Satanic texts to its required reading list, including ... a collection of texts written by O9A members; and Iron Gates, a graphically violent apocalyptic novel published by the Tempel ov Blood, a U.S.-based affiliate of O9A. Neo-Nazi Satanism appears to be a long-term interest for Denton. He made social media postings featuring O9A logos as early as 2014 and 2015.
ONA adherent Alexander Andersson charged with multiple counts of aggravated rape against children
He had instructions on bomb making and was a recruiter and 'prominent member' of neo-Nazi group Feuerkrieg Division.After he was arrested he scrawled satanic and far-right messages on his prison cell
Specifically, they belonged to a cult called Legion Ave Satan, a chapter of the O9A.
There is an organization called Legion Ave Satan, which is chapter of O9A
This group, made up of mercenaries with neo-Nazi and neo-pagan beliefs, is involved in serious war crimes that have sparked controversy even within Russia. Some members of the group are connected to satanic and neo-Nazi organizations such as the Order of Nine Angles.
Some sources link the DSHRG "Rusich" with an international neo-nazi and Satanic network, the Order of the Nine Angles (ONA), accused of terrorist practices, child abuse and human sacrifice, and which in Russia also has one of its branches in the so-called Ave Satan Legion.
RIM has developed supportive relationships with other transnational violent extremist groups grounded in mutual aid and training. The closest of these connections are with...the Russian neo-Nazi organization Rusich, and the transnational accelerationist neo-Nazi organization Atomwaffen Division...Rusich and the Russian Imperial Movement [have] U.S. nationals sympathetic to their cause [like] far-right organizer Matthew Heimbach and U.S. cells of the extremist Atomwaffen Division.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)We also observed significant overlap between members of [RIM and Rusich] and well-known transnational White supremacist organization Atomwaffen Division...adherents of the Russian Imperial Movement, Rusich and related identitarian paramilitary groups such as...Atomwaffen Division
Milchakov's deputy Yan Petrovsky (alias Voislav Torden) is jailed in Finland awaiting trial. He built strong connections with Scandinavian nazis, including members of the Nordic Resistance Movement, which was recently proscribed by the US authorities as a terrorist organisation.
photos emerged of the Rusich battalion, a Russian neo-Nazi group fighting against Ukraine, mutilating and "sacrificing" a Chechen Akhmat fighter.
according to intelligence reports, members of the AWD trained with the Imperial Russian Movement in a camp outside of St. Petersburg
The image to the right was recently promoted on Telegram highlighting the alliance between "No Lives Matter (NLM)," "Maniacs Assassin Cult (MKU)," and "764". If true, their merger represents a dangerous and very deranged equation of three extreme right wing groups across three continents. NLM and 764, appear to have teamed up. Much of the propaganda featured in NLM channels has the image seen here of a man's covered head with the 764 group's emblem watermarked. It is important to note that NLM was recently promoted among European members of the Satanic Neo-Nazi Order of Nine Angles (09A/ ONA), a group that infiltrates many other racist groups in an attempt to further their agenda and grow their Satanic Neo-Nazi cult. The addition of 764 is quite possibly the most disturbing aspect of this 'alliance'
One 764 group of users claim that М.К.У (Maniac Murder Cult, an accelerationist group founded by Egor Krasnov in Dnipro, Ukraine) and 764 have declared an official partnership.