Neo-Nazi British soldiers were ‘members of a banned group’ and one had a terror manual by Anders Breivik
TWO Brit soldiers were members of a banned neo-Nazi group and one kept a terror manual by mass killer Anders Breivik, a jury heard.
L/Cpl Mikko Vehvilainen, 33, is said to have recruited Pte Mark Barrett, 24, to the “virulently racist” anti- Semitic and homophobic National Action organisation, a court was told yesterday.
The serving Royal Anglian Regiment pair backed the anti-democracy group even after it supported the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox by a white supremacist in 2016, it was said.
Counter-terror cops targeted them after a probe into National Action, who dubbed members “white jihadists”, it was said.
In a raid at Vehvilainen’s home at the Army’s Welsh HQ at Sennybridge Camp, Powys, they found a manifesto written under an alias by Norwegian Breivik, who killed 77 people.
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His “European Declaration of Independence” contained the “ideology and methodology” of his attacks and items on “funding, recruitment, training and armoury for acts of terrorism”.
Vehvilainen, Barrett and a man, 23, who cannot be named, deny being members of National Action. Married Vehvilainen also denies stirring up racial hatred.
He and the unnamed defendant — who denies distributing a publication contrary to terror laws — plead not guilty to having a document likely to be of use to terrorists.
Trial continues at Birmingham crown court.
