Martin Sellner: The new face of the far right in Europe

[TomSea]

Martin Sellner: The new face of the far right in Europe
By Simon Cox and Anna Meisel BBC News

In April 2016, hundreds of people sat inside the University of Vienna's theatre watching The Suppliants, a play performed by asylum-seekers from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. And then the stage invasion began.

Members of a far-right group called Generation Identity (GI) rushed in, unfurling a banner calling the audience hypocrites and throwing fake blood over some of them. The performers screamed, fearing they were under attack. There were scuffles as some in the audience began shouting "Nazis raus" or "Nazis out" and tried to eject the protesters.

Ima was one of the performers. She had fled Mosul in Iraq when it was taken over by the so-called Islamic State group. "We came from the land of fear," she says. And now, in the darkness and confusion, she was scared again.

Read more at: https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-45572411

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

It's our duty, every time we see or hear some idiot call Nazis the political right, to throw the BS flag square on the 50 yard line.

National SOCIALISM is not a Right leaning ideology.

[Fishrrman]

BBC...?

Fuhgeddaboutit..!

[TomSea]

Reading the article, it sounds like he did get involved in some shady groups when he was younger. He seems to say there was nothing else. Now, he's helped build up some patriotic group with no Neo-Nazi leanings and things like that.