Teenage neo-Nazis jailed for threatening to attack Prince Harry and other targets
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Teenage neo-Nazis who incited terror attacks on targets including Prince Harry have been jailed.
Michal Szewczuk and Oskar Dunn-Koczorowski were members of a
group calling itself Sonnenkrieg Division, described as the “third
generation” of banned terrorist group National Action.
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After setting up online accounts for the faction last year, the
pair shared a series of propaganda posters featuring swastikas and the
Nazi “black sun” symbol alongside their own logo.
One poster showed Prince Harry having a gun pointed at his head
with blood splatters and the caption: “See ya later, race traitor.”
The image was shared online in August last year, just a few months after he married mixed race former actress Meghan Markle.
Sentencing Szewczuk and Dunn-Koczorowski at the Old Bailey, judge Rebecca Poulet QC said the image “advances violence”.
“It is not just something that is deeply unpalatable. It encourages terrorism,” she added.
“Individuals were urged to go out and commit appalling acts of
violence on others for no reason that can ever be understood by any
right-thinking individuals.”
Szewczuk, of Wyther Park in Leeds, was jailed for four years and
three months, and Dunn-Koczorowski, of St Albans Avenue in west London,
was sentenced to an 18-month detention and training order. The
defendants appeared in court via video link from Belmarsh prison and
gave no reaction as they were sentenced.
Prosecutor Naomi Parsons told the court that the posts, which
were shared across three accounts by the two teenagers, “convey a
message of the threat of and use of serious violence against others, in
order to advance a political, ideological and racial cause (neo-Nazism)
and in this way encourage terrorism”.
She said targets included Jewish people, non-white people and
anyone “perceived to be complicit in the perpetuation of
multiculturalism”.
A Sonnenkrieg Division poster shared on the social network Gab (Counter Terrorism Policing North East)
The pair, who had only interacted online before their arrest, shared Sonnenkrieg Division propaganda under pseudonyms on the “free speech” social network Gab
and gaming forums, while Szewczuk also authored his own violent
blog. He sipped water and gave no reaction in the dock as quotes
justifying the rape of women and children to further an Aryan race were
read aloud to the court on Monday.
A Sonnenkrieg Divison poster also called for people to “rape the
cops”, with an image showing a man in a scull mask grabbing a female
officer, and another showed a white woman being hanged and read: “Race
mixing whores get the f***ing rope.”
Others praised Anders Breivik, the terrorist who massacred 77
people in 2011 attacks targeting Norway’s government and Labour Party.
Some posters were written in Russian, including one threatening the ethnic cleansing of Albanians.
They were posted from a now-deleted Sonnenkrieg Division account on Gab, which has become a haven for the international far right and hosts openly neo-Nazi, racist, antisemitic and violent content.
The posters displayed a link to a website containing writings by
James Mason, a prominent American neo-Nazi who authored a book
containing violent racism and antisemitism, and tactics for a coming
“race war”.
Mason is linked to the American paramilitary neo-Nazi group
Atomwaffen Division, which has been responsible for several murders in
the US, and its supporters spread Sonnenkrieg Division propaganda
online.
Szewczuk, a 19-year-old Polish national from Leeds, was arrested
in December while studying computer science at Portsmouth University.
Dunn-Koczorowski, 18, worked as a labourer for a construction company
and was arrested at his west London home on the same day.
A Sonnenkrieg Division poster shared on the social network Gab, reading ‘Free Breivik‘ in Norwegian (Counter Terrorism Policing North East)
A police search discovered flags of the Atomwaffen Division and
Iron March fascist forum, as well as a phone with a screen saver of a
hooded man holding the “black sun”.
The pair admitted encouraging terrorism, while Szewczuk also
pleaded guilty to five counts of possessing terrorist documents
including the White Resistance Manual, TheAnarchist Cookbook, an al-Qaeda manual and Isis supporters’ guide to obtaining weapons, making bombs and hiding from security services.
Detective chief superintendent Martin Snowden said:
“Dunn-Koczorowski and Szewczuk clearly see themselves as superior to the
majority of society and they feel their duty is to express their
beliefs, in turn teaching others.
“The considerable amount of material they have posted on social
media channels not only reflects their extremist beliefs but was
intended to encourage others to carry out despicable acts. Both men have
developed and evolved their interest in the extreme right-wing ideology
over time through research and connecting with like-minded
individuals.”
The officer, who is head of Counter Terrorism Policing North
East, appealed for the public to report material that glorifies
terrorism, and pleaded to “tackle all forms of toxic extremism which has
the potential to threaten public safety and security”.
Both men are reported to have been members of neo-Nazi group the
System Resistance Network (SRN), and Dunn-Koczorowski was part of
National Action before it was banned as a terrorist organisation in
2016. The prohibition caused the group to split into regional factions
that operated under new names in an attempt to evade the law.
National Action: neo-Nazi terrorist couple who named baby ‘Adolf’ jailed
A report by counterextremism group Hope Not Hate said Sonnenkrieg
Division was spawned by a “split over strategy and ideology” in SRN,
making it the “third generation” of National Action. Sonnenkrieg
Division’s alleged leader, who is currently under investigation by
police, was said to have been expelled from SRN with other members who
were “obsessed by Satanism”.
“The Sonnenkrieg Division has produced some of the most
frightening and sickening material seen on the British far right for
decades, including open interest in Satanism and the promotion of
paedophilia, rape and murder,” Hope Not Hate researchers said. “Sodomy
was also a disturbing and repetitive theme … members of the Sonnenkrieg
Division openly celebrate and encourage sexual violence.”
The court heard a doctor’s report described Dunn-Koczorowski as
an “emotionally and psychologically damaged young man” who has a “lack
of remorse” for his views and a “deeply entrenched ideology”.
In mitigation for Szewczuk, lawyer Adam Morgan said his client
had a “difficult and disordered upbringing” and had suffered with
depression “for a considerable period”. The court heard he moved to the
UK from Poland aged 10, living first in Northern Ireland and then
England.
The sentencing came days after new figures showed that the proportion of white terror suspects being arrested in the UK is at the highest level for 15 years.
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