@izzythepush,
Coming back to the far and extreme right but (to please our resident neo-Nazi) not from the UK:
Austrian authorities have searched the home of a prominent far-right activist as part of a probe into his ties to the alleged Christchurch mosque gunman, officials said on Tuesday.
Key points:
Head of the Identitarian Movement of Austria, Martin Sellner, said police searched his apartment on Monday.
They seized electronic devices after Sellner received money from a person with the same surname as the New Zealand shooter.
Prosecutors stumbled across the donation as part of an existing probe into Sellner over possible financial offences.
The head of the white nationalist group Identitarian Movement of Austria, Martin Sellner, said on social media that police searched his apartment on Monday.
They seized electronic devices after Sellner received a "disproportionately high donation" [his own words] from a person named Tarrant — the same surname as the suspected Christchurch shooter (and who had been to various places in Austria).
The investigation against Sellner is based on Austrian anti-terror laws - Sellner said he only got the money because the Australian wanted to pull him into the right corner.
And before the tirade about governments and laws in Europe starts again: Austria has a coalition government, formed by the centre-right "Austrian People's Party" (
Österreichische Volkspartei [ÖVP]), a Christian-democratic conservative party, and the "Freedom Party of Austria" (
Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs [FPÖ]), a right-wing populist, pan-Germanists and nationalist party.