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Neo-Nazi Group Hosted Training in Lafayette Park, Tallahassee Campgrounds
Neo-Nazi Group Hosted Training in Lafayette Park, Tallahassee Campgrounds in OctoberVideos show that Patriot Front, a neo-Nazi hate group, held a retreat in Tallahassee, practicing crowd control and hand-to-hand combat drills, in October, in Tallahassee’s Lafayette Park and a state park near Williams Landing.
Unicorn Riot, a collaborative non-profit media group that tracks and organizes leaked right-wing and neo-Nazi groups, released a large tranche of data gained by infiltrating Patriot Front in late January. Patriot Front is a white supremacist group that invokes neo-Nazi symbology and ideology. Thomas Rousseau formed the group after 2017’s Unite the Right March in Charlottesville, VA. In the fallout from the nationally orchestrated event, Rousseau gained power within the group’s predecessor organization, Vanguard America. After James Alex Fields, seen wielding a Vanguard America shield during the march, murdered Heather Heyer, Rousseau broke off from Vanguard America and in turn absorbed most of the members as well as the website domain name “bloodandsoil.org.”
The website was then reconfigured and operated a private chat server, hosting the groups’ internal communications over the past four years. Their documents outline vast communications between members, secretive and often paranoid coded messages, which revealed a previously unreported training retreat in Tallahassee.
Atlanta Antifascists have analyzed the information and identified two Florida members’ identities. ....
.... Internal videos released in the leak show that vandalizing property with white supremacist messages was viewed as a core tenant of membership in Patriot Front. Each region of the country requires a quota of acts every month.
Unicorn Riot, a collaborative non-profit media group that tracks and organizes leaked right-wing and neo-Nazi groups, released a large tranche of data gained by infiltrating Patriot Front in late January. Patriot Front is a white supremacist group that invokes neo-Nazi symbology and ideology. Thomas Rousseau formed the group after 2017’s Unite the Right March in Charlottesville, VA. In the fallout from the nationally orchestrated event, Rousseau gained power within the group’s predecessor organization, Vanguard America. After James Alex Fields, seen wielding a Vanguard America shield during the march, murdered Heather Heyer, Rousseau broke off from Vanguard America and in turn absorbed most of the members as well as the website domain name “bloodandsoil.org.”
The website was then reconfigured and operated a private chat server, hosting the groups’ internal communications over the past four years. Their documents outline vast communications between members, secretive and often paranoid coded messages, which revealed a previously unreported training retreat in Tallahassee.
Atlanta Antifascists have analyzed the information and identified two Florida members’ identities. ....
.... Internal videos released in the leak show that vandalizing property with white supremacist messages was viewed as a core tenant of membership in Patriot Front. Each region of the country requires a quota of acts every month.
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