۲۹ اسفند ۱۴۰۲ |۹ رمضان ۱۴۴۵ | Mar 19, 2024
British neo-Nazi couple who named son after Hitler found guilty of far-right terrorism

A British couple with neo-Nazi views who named their son after Adolf Hitler have been convicted of membership of an outlawed far-right group.

Hawzah News Agency (Birmangham, England) - A British couple with neo-Nazi views who named their son after Adolf Hitler was convicted Monday of membership on an outlawed far-right group.

A jury at Birmingham Crown Court in central England found 22-year-old Adam Thomas and 38-year-old Claudia Patatas guilty of being members of National Action.

 

 

A third defendant, Daniel Bogunovic, was also convicted of membership of the banned group.

 

Three others pleaded guilty before the trial started.

During the trial, jurors were shown photos of Thomas holding his baby son - who was given the middle name Adolf - while wearing the white robes of the Ku Klux Klan.

 

Thomas claimed the photographs were "just play" but also told the court he was a racist.

Prosecutors said Thomas had a "fanatical and tribal belief in white supremacy".

 

 

Prosecutors said the defendants attended meetings of the banned group and exchanged WhatsApp messages praising the Nazis'' murder of Jews.

Detective Chief Superintendent Matt Ward, head of Counterterrorism at West Midlands Police, called them "dangerous, organised individuals."

 

 

The neo-Nazi group was founded in 2013 and the government banned National Action in 2016 after Labour Party lawmaker Jo Cox was murdered by a far-right extremist in northern England.

The anti-Semitic and white supremacist group had celebrated the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox in June 2016 by Thomas Mair.

 

 

The group describes itself as a "National Socialist youth organization". However, then-Home Secretary Amber Rudd described it as "racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic."

"It has absolutely no place in a Britain that works for everyone," she added.

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