Revealed: US race hate rioter's visit to Scots extremist

MARTYN MCLAUGHLIN Published: 23:14 Saturday 23 February 2019

A violent white supremacist convicted for his part in one of the deadliest rallies in modern US history travelled to Scotland to meet up with a far-right extremist group in the weeks leading up to the incident, according to prosecutors in the US.

Scotland on Sunday can reveal that Cole White, an associate of the militant and anti-Semitic Rise Above Movement, visited Edinburgh the month before the notorious Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on 11-12 August, 
2017, which left one woman dead and dozens of people injured.

An investigation by the FBI and police in the eastern US state also uncovered a video White recorded and uploaded to social media, in which he boasted of meeting the leader of a white supremacist group in Scotland.

While investigators in the US have drawn links between the Rise Above Movement and extremist groups in Germany, White’s travel records are believed to provide the first direct connection between the California-based hate group and the UK.

Read more at: https://www.scotsman.com/news/revealed-us-race-hate-rioter-s-visit-to-scots-extremist-1-4878251