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Related: About this forumFar right network orchestrated synagogue attacks, FBI says
Source: The Guardian
Far right network orchestrated synagogue attacks, FBI says
Richard Tobin of New Jersey directed groups members hundreds of miles away to deface synagogues in Michigan and Wisconsin
Jason Wilson
@jason_a_w
Sat 16 Nov 2019 19.35 GMT
Last modified on Sat 16 Nov 2019 19.37 GMT
Federal authorities allege that a member of a far right network orchestrated the vandalism of synagogues in Michigan and Wisconsin last September.
Richard Tobin, 18, of Brooklawn, New Jersey, allegedly led other members of the group to paint the synagogues with neo-Nazi slogans and insignia as part of what he called Operation Kristallnacht, in reference to the Nazi pogrom in Germany in 1938.
In a criminal complaint filed in Camden, New Jersey, last Tuesday, and unsealed Wednesday, an FBI agent stated that Tobin, from his home in New Jersey, directed members of the groups Great Lakes Cell, hundreds of miles away, to deface synagogues with fascist and antisemitic propaganda.
A synagogue in Hancock, Michigan, was daubed with swastikas and SS symbols on 21 September. The next day, a synagogue in Racine, Wisconsin was defaced with an antisemitic slogan and the runic insignia associated with a network known as The Base, which reproduces symbolism adopted by Nazis after 1923 to memorialize members who died in Hitlers failed Beer Hall Putsch, according to the complaint.
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Richard Tobin of New Jersey directed groups members hundreds of miles away to deface synagogues in Michigan and Wisconsin
Jason Wilson
@jason_a_w
Sat 16 Nov 2019 19.35 GMT
Last modified on Sat 16 Nov 2019 19.37 GMT
Federal authorities allege that a member of a far right network orchestrated the vandalism of synagogues in Michigan and Wisconsin last September.
Richard Tobin, 18, of Brooklawn, New Jersey, allegedly led other members of the group to paint the synagogues with neo-Nazi slogans and insignia as part of what he called Operation Kristallnacht, in reference to the Nazi pogrom in Germany in 1938.
In a criminal complaint filed in Camden, New Jersey, last Tuesday, and unsealed Wednesday, an FBI agent stated that Tobin, from his home in New Jersey, directed members of the groups Great Lakes Cell, hundreds of miles away, to deface synagogues with fascist and antisemitic propaganda.
A synagogue in Hancock, Michigan, was daubed with swastikas and SS symbols on 21 September. The next day, a synagogue in Racine, Wisconsin was defaced with an antisemitic slogan and the runic insignia associated with a network known as The Base, which reproduces symbolism adopted by Nazis after 1923 to memorialize members who died in Hitlers failed Beer Hall Putsch, according to the complaint.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/16/far-right-network-orchestrated-synagogue-attacks-fbi-says
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Far right network orchestrated synagogue attacks, FBI says (Original Post)
Eugene
Nov 2019
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dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)1. I know it sounds kind of nutty, but I wonder sometimea
If there aren't these types of sleeper cells of White nationalists, being signaled to, at his rallies...ie his hand signals. I sound like QAnon.
This is so very purposeful.
Link to tweet
?s=20
Vogon_Glory
(9,133 posts)2. At the very least, I hope his parents
Kick him out of the house.
JudyM
(29,294 posts)3. Good that it was discovered now, before they did any violent assaults.
Operation Kristallnacht could not be more disgustingly conceived.
Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)4. So the little nazi shitheels call themselves 'the base'?
Al Qaeda.
Also, we know these guys are twitler's base.