In the hours after the Bondi terror attack, far-right associates of neo-Nazis threatened to kidnap the prime minister and send bombs to mosques through the post, prompting two separate police raids.
This masthead was leaked the apparent threats, including a recording of a man being offered $10,000 to rent a van and kidnap Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, from within an online chat room run by March for Australia organisers and filled with neo-Nazis in the lead-up to Monday’s anti-immigration rallies.
Days after the kidnap plot was discussed online, detectives swooped on a neo-Nazi associate at his Sydney home over a separate social media post, which also allegedly called for Albanese’s abduction.
Police are investigating, and they did not say if the cases are believed to be related.
But the chatroom, on the popular gaming platform Discord, offers a window into what experts and authorities warn is a growing underbelly of online extremism, as rhetoric again escalates before Australia Day rallies.
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Way to go Australia, for falling for the American rhetorics……
Source: Sillent_Screams
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Oh great, they’ll use this to ban discord
Weren’t people up in arms over this dude being locked up for “saying things online”
But if POC were to make the same threats online they’d be wanting blood.
Wow.
Arrest them and send them to America.