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In October 2018, a group which was modeled after Atomwaffen and called itself the '''Feuerkrieg Division''' (German for "Fire War Division") was established in the [[Baltic states]], most likely in [[Saare County|Saaremaa]], Estonia where several members of its leadership resided.[{{cite news | url=https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-11303442 | work=[[Yle]] | title=Virolainen teinipoika johti kansainvälistä uusnatsiryhmää pikkukaupungista Saarenmaalta, jäsenet valmistelivat pommi-iskuja Yhdysvalloissa |language=fi |trans-title=International neo-Nazi group led from small town in Saaremaa in Estonia, members preparing bomb attacks | last=Kataja | first=Marika | date=July 2, 2020 | access-date=July 3, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200703124217/https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-11303442 | archive-date=July 3, 2020 | url-status=live }}][{{Cite web | url=https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounders/feuerkrieg-division-fkd | title=Feuerkrieg Division (FKD) | publisher=[[Anti-Defamation League]] | date=October 9, 2019 | access-date=October 9, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200105132346/https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounders/feuerkrieg-division-fkd | archive-date=January 5, 2020 | url-status=live }}] In mid-2019, the Feuerkrieg gained attention when it issued death threats against [[Belgium|Belgian]] [[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]] [[Guy Verhofstadt]] and [[YouTube]] CEO [[Susan Wojcicki]].[{{Cite web | url=https://www.neweurope.eu/article/armed-neo-nazi-group-issues-death-threat-to-guy-verhofstadt/ | title=Armed neo-Nazi group issues death threat to Guy Verhofstadt | work=New Europe | date=April 8, 2019 | access-date=June 7, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190623165722/https://www.neweurope.eu/article/armed-neo-nazi-group-issues-death-threat-to-guy-verhofstadt/ | archive-date=June 23, 2019 | url-status=live }}] It had previously praised the actions of [[Dylann Roof]], [[Pittsburgh synagogue shooting#Suspect|Robert Bowers]], [[Timothy McVeigh]] and [[Brenton Tarrant|Brenton Harrison Tarrant]], and encouraged violence against government authorities, Jews, [[LGBTQ]] people, leftists and feminists.[{{Cite web | url=https://www.counterextremism.com/press/extremist-content-online-atomwaffen-division-content-reuploaded-youtube-despite-ban | title=Extremist Content Online: Atomwaffen Division Content Reuploaded to YouTube Despite Ban | date=April 9, 2019 | publisher=Counter Extremism Project | access-date=June 7, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190607031936/https://www.counterextremism.com/press/extremist-content-online-atomwaffen-division-content-reuploaded-youtube-despite-ban | archive-date=June 7, 2019 | url-status=live }}][{{Cite web | url=https://www.counterextremism.com/press/extremist-content-online-neo-nazis-continue-recruiting | title=Extremist Content Online: Neo-Nazis Continue Recruiting | date=February 11, 2019 | publisher=Counter Extremism Project | access-date=June 7, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190607025503/https://www.counterextremism.com/press/extremist-content-online-neo-nazis-continue-recruiting | archive-date=June 7, 2019 | url-status=live }}] Propaganda videos produced by the group showed its members building and detonating homemade explosive devices in Estonia.[{{Cite news | url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/after-facebook-and-web-host-bans-far-right-extremists-are-encrypting-and-going-irl/ | title=After Facebook and Web Host Bans, Far-Right Extremists Are Encrypting and Going IRL | work=[[Vice (magazine)|Vice]] | date=June 14, 2019 | access-date=June 14, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200122041810/https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/j5wx74/after-facebook-and-web-host-bans-far-right-extremists-are-encrypting-and-going-irl | archive-date=January 22, 2020 | url-status=live }}] Feuerkrieg also shared a video among its members that instructs how to make [[TATP]] bombs, used by ISIS in the [[Manchester Arena bombing]].Gardaí]] announced it had deported a member of the Atomwaffen network from Ireland for his role in a murder plot.[{{cite news | url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/alleged-neo-nazi-returns-to-us-after-almost-two-weeks-in-ireland-1.4094588 | title=Alleged neo-Nazi returns to US after almost two weeks in Ireland | work=[[Irish Times]] | date=November 25, 2019 | access-date=July 17, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200523225932/https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/alleged-neo-nazi-returns-to-us-after-almost-two-weeks-in-ireland-1.4094588 | archive-date=May 23, 2020 | url-status=live }}] |
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In October 2018, a group which was modeled after Atomwaffen and called itself the '''Feuerkrieg Division''' (German for "Fire War Division") was established in the [[Baltic states]], most likely in [[Saare County|Saaremaa]], Estonia where several members of its leadership resided.[{{cite news | url=https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-11303442 | work=[[Yle]] | title=Virolainen teinipoika johti kansainvälistä uusnatsiryhmää pikkukaupungista Saarenmaalta, jäsenet valmistelivat pommi-iskuja Yhdysvalloissa |language=fi |trans-title=International neo-Nazi group led from small town in Saaremaa in Estonia, members preparing bomb attacks | last=Kataja | first=Marika | date=July 2, 2020 | access-date=July 3, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200703124217/https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-11303442 | archive-date=July 3, 2020 | url-status=live }}][{{Cite web | url=https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounders/feuerkrieg-division-fkd | title=Feuerkrieg Division (FKD) | publisher=[[Anti-Defamation League]] | date=October 9, 2019 | access-date=October 9, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200105132346/https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounders/feuerkrieg-division-fkd | archive-date=January 5, 2020 | url-status=live }}] In mid-2019, the Feuerkrieg gained attention when it issued death threats against [[Belgium|Belgian]] [[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]] [[Guy Verhofstadt]] and [[YouTube]] CEO [[Susan Wojcicki]].[{{Cite web | url=https://www.neweurope.eu/article/armed-neo-nazi-group-issues-death-threat-to-guy-verhofstadt/ | title=Armed neo-Nazi group issues death threat to Guy Verhofstadt | work=New Europe | date=April 8, 2019 | access-date=June 7, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190623165722/https://www.neweurope.eu/article/armed-neo-nazi-group-issues-death-threat-to-guy-verhofstadt/ | archive-date=June 23, 2019 | url-status=live }}] It had previously praised the actions of [[Dylann Roof]], [[Pittsburgh synagogue shooting#Suspect|Robert Bowers]], [[Timothy McVeigh]] and [[Brenton Tarrant|Brenton Harrison Tarrant]], and encouraged violence against government authorities, Jews, [[LGBTQ]] people, leftists and feminists.[{{Cite web | url=https://www.counterextremism.com/press/extremist-content-online-atomwaffen-division-content-reuploaded-youtube-despite-ban | title=Extremist Content Online: Atomwaffen Division Content Reuploaded to YouTube Despite Ban | date=April 9, 2019 | publisher=Counter Extremism Project | access-date=June 7, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190607031936/https://www.counterextremism.com/press/extremist-content-online-atomwaffen-division-content-reuploaded-youtube-despite-ban | archive-date=June 7, 2019 | url-status=live }}][{{Cite web | url=https://www.counterextremism.com/press/extremist-content-online-neo-nazis-continue-recruiting | title=Extremist Content Online: Neo-Nazis Continue Recruiting | date=February 11, 2019 | publisher=Counter Extremism Project | access-date=June 7, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190607025503/https://www.counterextremism.com/press/extremist-content-online-neo-nazis-continue-recruiting | archive-date=June 7, 2019 | url-status=live }}] Propaganda videos produced by the group showed its members building and detonating homemade explosive devices in Estonia.[{{Cite news | url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/after-facebook-and-web-host-bans-far-right-extremists-are-encrypting-and-going-irl/ | title=After Facebook and Web Host Bans, Far-Right Extremists Are Encrypting and Going IRL | work=[[Vice (magazine)|Vice]] | date=June 14, 2019 | access-date=June 14, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200122041810/https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/j5wx74/after-facebook-and-web-host-bans-far-right-extremists-are-encrypting-and-going-irl | archive-date=January 22, 2020 | url-status=live }}] Feuerkrieg also shared a video among its members that instructs how to make [[TATP]] bombs, used by ISIS in the [[Manchester Arena bombing]].[{{cite news | url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/alleged-neo-nazi-returns-to-us-after-almost-two-weeks-in-ireland-1.4094588 | title=Alleged neo-Nazi returns to US after almost two weeks in Ireland | work=[[Irish Times]] | date=November 25, 2019 | access-date=July 17, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200523225932/https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/alleged-neo-nazi-returns-to-us-after-almost-two-weeks-in-ireland-1.4094588 | archive-date=May 23, 2020 | url-status=live }}] |
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According to [[Eesti Rahvusringhääling]], an investigation revealed that Estonian [[Member of parliament|MP]] [[Ruuben Kaalep]] ([[EKRE]]) was connected to British neo-Nazi terrorists from the former [[National Action (UK)|National Action]] who went on to form the British branch of the Atomwaffen Division, which subsequently opened a branch in Kaalep's native [[Estonia]] in the form of the Feuerkrieg Division.[{{cite news | url=https://news.err.ee/926367/weekly-ekre-mp-ruuben-kaalep-has-long-history-of-neo-nazi-activity | title=EKRE MP Ruuben Kaalep has long history of neo-Nazi activity | work=[[Eesti Rahvusringhääling]] | date=July 10, 2019 | access-date=July 10, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200508103640/https://news.err.ee/926367/weekly-ekre-mp-ruuben-kaalep-has-long-history-of-neo-nazi-activity | archive-date=May 8, 2020 | url-status=live }}] [[Anti-Defamation League|ADL]] and [[Hope not Hate]] also confirmed that American and English Nazis and Azov members had visited [[Tallinn]] multiple times, organizing events with Kaalep and Feuerkrieg "which began in early 2019, originally organized with Sonnenkrieg" before becoming a full-fledged branch. The [[Finnish Resistance Movement]] and its successor Atomwaffen Finland cooperated with the group as well.[{{Cite web | url=https://www.adl.org/resources/reports/hate-beyond-borders-the-internationalization-of-white-supremacy | title=Hate Beyond Borders: The Internationalization of White Supremacy | publisher=[[Anti-Defamation League]] | access-date=September 18, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190927021243/https://www.adl.org/resources/reports/hate-beyond-borders-the-internationalization-of-white-supremacy | archive-date=September 27, 2019 | url-status=live }}][{{cite news | url=https://www.hopenothate.org.uk/2019/05/17/the-renaissance-of-europes-far-right-party-youth-wings/ | title=Simon Murdoch: Away from the public eye, the youth-wings of Europe's far-right parties are collaborating and have some very concerning ties | work=[[Hope not Hate]] | date=September 26, 2019 | access-date=September 26, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190926140733/https://www.hopenothate.org.uk/2019/05/17/the-renaissance-of-europes-far-right-party-youth-wings/ | archive-date=September 26, 2019 | url-status=live }}] Kaalep was also found to have been organizing firearms training with pistols and assault rifles to groups of youths recruited from [[Blue Awakening]], some of whom wore skull masks associated with Atomwaffen and were shown doing Nazi salutes. Kaalep had said that they are ready for armed combat and the collapse of law and order. The [[Estonian Internal Security Service]] had earlier expressed its concern over his events.[{{cite news | url=https://www.ohtuleht.ee/976532/video-ekre-noored-kaivad-ruuben-kaalepiga-lasketiirus-kommutamas-ja-levitavad-endist-hairivaid-pilte-koos-relvadega | title=EKRE-noored käivad Ruuben Kaalepiga lasketiirus kõmmutamas ja levitavad endist häirivaid pilte koos relvadega |language=et |trans-title=EKRE youth share disturbing pictures with guns at a shooting range with Ruuben Kaalep | work=[[Õhtuleht]] | date=September 12, 2019 | access-date=September 12, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418110411/https://www.ohtuleht.ee/976532/video-ekre-noored-kaivad-ruuben-kaalepiga-lasketiirus-kommutamas-ja-levitavad-endist-hairivaid-pilte-koos-relvadega | archive-date=April 18, 2020 | url-status=live }}] |
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According to [[Eesti Rahvusringhääling]], an investigation revealed that Estonian [[Member of parliament|MP]] [[Ruuben Kaalep]] ([[EKRE]]) was connected to British neo-Nazi terrorists from the former [[National Action (UK)|National Action]] who went on to form the British branch of the Atomwaffen Division, which subsequently opened a branch in Kaalep's native [[Estonia]] in the form of the Feuerkrieg Division.[{{cite news | url=https://news.err.ee/926367/weekly-ekre-mp-ruuben-kaalep-has-long-history-of-neo-nazi-activity | title=EKRE MP Ruuben Kaalep has long history of neo-Nazi activity | work=[[Eesti Rahvusringhääling]] | date=July 10, 2019 | access-date=July 10, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200508103640/https://news.err.ee/926367/weekly-ekre-mp-ruuben-kaalep-has-long-history-of-neo-nazi-activity | archive-date=May 8, 2020 | url-status=live }}] [[Anti-Defamation League|ADL]] and [[Hope not Hate]] also confirmed that American and English Nazis and Azov members had visited [[Tallinn]] multiple times, organizing events with Kaalep and Feuerkrieg "which began in early 2019, originally organized with Sonnenkrieg" before becoming a full-fledged branch. The [[Finnish Resistance Movement]] and its successor Atomwaffen Finland cooperated with the group as well.[{{Cite web | url=https://www.adl.org/resources/reports/hate-beyond-borders-the-internationalization-of-white-supremacy | title=Hate Beyond Borders: The Internationalization of White Supremacy | publisher=[[Anti-Defamation League]] | access-date=September 18, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190927021243/https://www.adl.org/resources/reports/hate-beyond-borders-the-internationalization-of-white-supremacy | archive-date=September 27, 2019 | url-status=live }}][{{cite news | url=https://www.hopenothate.org.uk/2019/05/17/the-renaissance-of-europes-far-right-party-youth-wings/ | title=Simon Murdoch: Away from the public eye, the youth-wings of Europe's far-right parties are collaborating and have some very concerning ties | work=[[Hope not Hate]] | date=September 26, 2019 | access-date=September 26, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190926140733/https://www.hopenothate.org.uk/2019/05/17/the-renaissance-of-europes-far-right-party-youth-wings/ | archive-date=September 26, 2019 | url-status=live }}] Kaalep was also found to have been organizing firearms training with pistols and assault rifles to groups of youths recruited from [[Blue Awakening]], some of whom wore skull masks associated with Atomwaffen and were shown doing Nazi salutes. Kaalep had said that they are ready for armed combat and the collapse of law and order. The [[Estonian Internal Security Service]] had earlier expressed its concern over his events.[{{cite news | url=https://www.ohtuleht.ee/976532/video-ekre-noored-kaivad-ruuben-kaalepiga-lasketiirus-kommutamas-ja-levitavad-endist-hairivaid-pilte-koos-relvadega | title=EKRE-noored käivad Ruuben Kaalepiga lasketiirus kõmmutamas ja levitavad endist häirivaid pilte koos relvadega |language=et |trans-title=EKRE youth share disturbing pictures with guns at a shooting range with Ruuben Kaalep | work=[[Õhtuleht]] | date=September 12, 2019 | access-date=September 12, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418110411/https://www.ohtuleht.ee/976532/video-ekre-noored-kaivad-ruuben-kaalepiga-lasketiirus-kommutamas-ja-levitavad-endist-hairivaid-pilte-koos-relvadega | archive-date=April 18, 2020 | url-status=live }}] |
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