This week it was announced that a far-right terror suspect arrested in May. A 43-year-old man from Gelderland would have prepared an attack on Muslims. Who is this man? Which organizations he was active? And the terrorist threat from the extreme right to take seriously?
'Bom schematic drawing', "Over drilling 'and' hitman '. Just a few internet searches Vincent Teunissen (1974) from Doornenburg. Op 23 May police raid the house where he lives in with his parents. Teunissen, who was suspected in the 90s in the Air Brigade preparing a terrorist crime. At his home found two alarm guns and such 1800 of the caliber bullets .22 one 9mm. The possession of these weapons are insufficient grounds to suspect someone of preparing an attack. Teunissen but is also associated with an attempt to buy more weapons and would have access to explosives. And combined with his Internet searches, he places himself on the corner suspect. Especially when you look at what political circles these ex-military resides.
political career
Teunissen has been active in the Anti-Terror Special Forces Brigade (ATB), an organization that 2016 was created "to give reply and response to the terror of Islam." The ATB fears the influence of Islam in the Netherlands and criticizes the lack of an effective response should give the government their eyes.
Teunissen is here for some time concerned about. In 2007 He therefore joins the party one for Freedom. The party of this name is a contraction of the names of Eénnl and the PVV. One Freedom turns like these parties against the "Islamization" and sees itself as a defender of "the ideas of Pastors, Wilders and Nawijn ". In 2007 state on behalf of this party Teunissen in second place of the list of candidates in the Gelderland provincial elections. But one of the Liberty's inglorious, obtains no seats and disappears into oblivion.
Anti Terreur Brigade Special Forces
Some ten years after his election adventure Teunissen throws it on another political bow. Concerns remained about Islam, the shape is greatly changed. The ATB where he is doing in connection "with commando training", is "an underground group" with "training in secret locations". The presentation of the group's military and violent. "Because the government lets us down must go up for themselves citizens." Says the ATB, which therefore will focus among others on patrol as vigilante. But, warns the organization, "We take anyone into custody."
Radical presentation seems very exaggerated. There are no known public activities in the Netherlands of such militant vigilantes. This tendency to underestimate a club like the ATB. It resembles a fantasy project of a number of lonely adult men who have outgrown their adventurous boys period.
In the case of Teunissen, however, is not an issue. With his collection of a large amount of ammunition crosses the border of fantasizing and boasting on the Internet. His past at the Air Brigade This situation is extra charge, After all, he was a professional perpetrator knowingly.
Violence
It is a fact that some in the Netherlands far-right movement of the use of force legitimate and sometimes necessary or desirable. Danny Feelders (1990), For a post-Breivik activist and fan out to Schiedam sympathizes with the ATB is 13 augustus arrested because of the threat of a touch. He currently sits, like Teunissen, in custody for terrorist threat.
Some members of Erkenbrand currently preparing to shoot through- and martial arts for the civil war inevitable, according to them. In 2016 Five members of the anti-AZC action group DTG sentenced to long prison terms on the basis of terrorism legislation. Members of the Network of Blood & Honor have been repeatedly been associated with firearms (and condemned) and to a wider audience within the extreme right there is great appreciation for the killings of Anders Breivik. In a polarized climate show some extreme right-wing activists are chasing the head spin. The threat that this causes, according to the prosecution apparently real.
complement 7 december 2018
Sentenced to an unconditional prison sentence of 36 months for making preparations for a terrorist attack and illegal possession of weapons.
