RCMP conducting raids in central Quebec targeting Atomwaffen Division neo-Nazi group
Round 60 RCMP officers are conducting raids southwest of Quebec Metropolis, concentrating on folks linked to the neo-Nazi group the Atomwaffen Division.
“It is a far-right affiliated group, which might be described as having neo-Nazi allegiance,” RCMP Cpl. Charles Poirier stated.
Poirier stated two search warrants are being executed within the cities of Saint-Ferdinand and Plessisville in what he referred to as a “nationwide safety operation.”
Poirier stated there was no menace to most of the people and no arrests are anticipated.
“However they might come relying on what we will discover. Investigators will likely be on website for a number of hours,” Poirier stated.
He stated that is the fruits of an investigation that started in 2020.
Poirier stated a command centre has been established beside a church and RCMP officers are looking a home behind the church.
An emergency response crew, an armoured automobile, police canine and Sûreté du Québec cops are aiding within the search.
Atomwaffen Division is a neo-Nazi group based within the U.S. in 2013. The group claims to be impressed by the serial killer Charles Manson and posits that historical past will finish in a race struggle.
The U.S.-based Southern Poverty Legislation Heart describes the group as being “organized as a sequence of terror cells that work towards civilizational collapse.”
Final month, RCMP arrested a 19-year-old man from Windsor, Ont., over alleged hyperlinks to the group.
