True Blue Crew

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The True Blue Crew (TBC) (German: Wahre Blaue Crew ) is a right-wing extremist and anti-Islamic group in Australia, which originated in Melton in the Australian state of Victoria .

This organization received worldwide attention because Brenton Tarrant , who carried out the terrorist attack on two mosques in Christchurch , New Zealand , left more than 30 comments on the Facebook pages of the TBC and the right-wing United Patriots Front . The Facebook page has since been deleted.

founding

Some of the members of the TBC were already involved in 2014 against the building of a community center and a mosque for Muslims in Bendigo . TBC was formed as a group in 2015 when it split off from right-wing extremist Reclaim Australia . Together with other Australian ultra-right groups, their claim is to defend their - as it is formulated - white, Anglo-Saxon heritage against certain groups such as Muslims, Jews or Australian aborigines .

Actions

Together with the right-wing extremist organizations United Patriots Front and the Love Australia or Leave Party , TBC leader Kane Miller organized a demonstration in Melton in May 2016 against the construction of the Muslim center in Bendigo . At another such demonstration in August 2016, violent arguments broke out between members of the TBC and the right-wing radical Sons of Odin ( Sons of Odin ) about the route of the demonstration .

Phillip Galea, a member of the TBC, was arrested after being found on records of terrorist attacks. A police investigation found that Galea had ties to Reclaim Australia, United Patriots Front , Patriots Defense League Australia and a right-wing group called "Combat 18".

In January 2019, Sander Channel 7 news reported that the United Patriots Front and TBC had organized patrols that were watching young African men.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alex Mann et al: Christchurch shooting accused Brenton Tarrant supports Australian far-right figure Blair Cottrell (English), March 23, 2019, on Australian Broadcasting Corporation . Accessed May 1, 2019
  2. ↑ #Melton: Soldiers of Odin ~ versus ~ True Blue Crew (English), August 29, 2016. on Slackbastard.anarchobase.com. Accessed May 1, 2019
  3. ↑ Judith Bessant, Rys Farthing, Rob Watts: The Precarious Generation. A Political Economy of Young People. Taylor & Francis 2017, p. 180
  4. ↑ Anti-Muslim protesters even turn on each other in Melbourne's western (English), dated 28 August 2016 on Herald Sun . Accessed May 1, 2019
  5. ↑ Victorian extremist Phillip Galea planned to bomb leftwing premises, police say '' (English), October 31, 2016. on The Guardian . Accessed May 1, 2019
  6. ↑ Channel 7 accused of going soft on racism by airing interview with far-right leader (English), January 15, 2018, on news.com. Accessed May 1, 2019