The right-wing extremist Anders Breivik has committed a bomb attack in Norway and killed dozens of people. In a manifesto in which he explains his act Breivik refers several times to the political situation in the Netherlands. According to the AIVD there is little threat from the Dutch extreme right. Is this observation correct?
The murder of (fairly randomly chosen) people or committing major bombings from an extreme right motive are rare events, but occur. In the in 2010 report 'disintegrating front, permanently loaded: The extreme right and right-wing extremism in the Netherlands' of the General Intelligence and Security Service (GISS) states that there exists a fascination among right-wing extremists for weapons and that some forms of violence are glorified. The AIVD, however, that the possession of weapons in particular has a great symbolic value in the extreme right scene in Netherlands. "This does not mean that can not be excluded that individuals can use it from an extreme right-wing or right-wing extremist inspiration or motive force." The security warning then, however,.
The Norwegian attack is welcomed in some parts of the far-right movement. Exist in Netherlands individuals and organizations who consider terrorist violence as a legitimate and necessary means to achieve their political goals. Some of these people have access to firearms. Others disseminate information to incite attacks. This article is a glimpse into a part of this closed world.
"I have to force myself to make decisions, and found that I have become embroiled in a war, "writes Sebastian Sportiello (1985) in 2007 in Holland Hardcore, an extreme right forum. "While our bourgeois world collapses", He continues "should scare the enemy, ensure that it becomes isolated and then attack. "Sportiello will" arm the people ", "Undertake military actions and purify the number of strata".
Sebastian Sportiello is a man from Dronten and since 2006 active in several extreme right-wing activist groups in the Netherlands. His bloodthirsty tone of political opponents, foreigners and Jews from the outset, a striking feature of his messages. Sportiello has a criminal record for assault. It is possible that one of the reasons why Sportiello claims not admitted to the examination of the Royal Dutch Shooters Association (Knsa). The problems Sportiello to experience in a legal way with firearms to learn how to stop him is not his own way, witness the picture below.
"Lone Wolf is in my view right now the best thing you can do," wrote a man (1988) Almere on the forum of Blood & Honour (B&H). This man has been 2006 active as a right-wing extremist and brings the second year of this career almost entirely by in detention. Together with a group of kindred spirits he has committed in and around his hometown of several arson attacks on Muslim targets and homes of political opponents. His long imprisonment, however, does not have the desired effect resocialiserende. His negative experiences with work in a group and the attitude of certain members in relation to the police has made him probably decide in future to carry out actions as individuals. The man is going to experiment after his detention by assembling powerful pipe bomb that should be used against the CIDI (Centre for Information and Documentation Israel) and service spokesman Ronnie Naftaniel. His membership in the shooting sports The Flevo Gunmen he lost after his conviction in his own words. When the aforementioned Sebastian Sportiello complains about the attention paid to the massacre of Tristan van der Vlis, because this reduces his chances of a shooting license he responds approvingly. "Thanks to these people is ruining much, of there not be more different routes to get to certain objects. "he tells. Then, to finish his answer with the slogan "Weapons will never disappear from the normal human hands. They ensure there for the people in order to facilitate, in particular, for the revolution!”.
The man from Almere are looking for inspiration and information for his political battle with the Nazi terrorist organization Combat 18 (C18), militant tak van de B&H movement. Sinds 1997 C18 also has a branch in the Netherlands. Until now, this Dutch branch two times been associated with (large-scale) possession of weapons. In 2002, after Fortuyn was murdered this group attracts the attention of the AIVD. They are busy collecting addresses of leftist politicians and want to take violent action against them. When Ed Polman (1973), of (former) leader of C18 telephoning with the extreme right dealer Maarten van Mil (1965) an obscure trade, it's not long before he was arrested along with several other people from his group. Polman is put to the test on the threats to address include Ad Melkert, who was sent by a loaded gun. But the arrest ultimately does not lead to a criminal. When a SWAT team of the police in March 2007 the house of another prominent member C18, Arris de Bruin (1981) invades found a considerable amount of weaponry here. Firearms, ammunition, bulletproof vests, a machine gun and several nail bombs seized. The investigation shows the even been busy Brown with purchase of a bazooka and that is by several people with guns trained on the Maasvlakte.
In 2009 spreads Ruud Hermans (1984) Venlo over the Internet in conjunction with a C18 magazine "for opposing the society" called Ragnarok. In the single edition are sections entitled "Introduction to explosives" and "Survival Psychology". Hermans, who moved shortly after the publication of this magazine to the Swedish port Pitea already apparent since he was twenty nurture far-right terror ideas. On a website he suggested in 2004 the plan "hostage a group of extreme leftists and demanding the expulsion of all foreigners". A plan that can be labeled as a juvenile and naive, and it is also possible. But a plan of a man who is oriented in the following years in the armed political struggle, claims to possess firearms and says to organize martial arts training in Sweden and there attacking political opponents.
Another publication of C18 in the Netherlands, the Dutch translation of the manifesto "The Way Forward". This manifesto is written by the Norwegian C18 foreman Eric Blücher, under his pseudonym Max Hammer and calls for conducting an armed struggle. Blücher was first active in the neo-Nazi scene in Norway, then in England and known now in Sweden. His manifesto was read on the Dutch website of C18 where it is touted as "a book that the movement will prepare for the next few years - the years when we will provide total white domination!"This booklet has been put online by Arnoud Kuipers (1990) from Zaltbommel. Kuipers has since 2006 active in the extreme right movement, in which he stands out because of his militant behavior and statements. On a C18 forum he calls under his pseudonym to Syphor “lone-wolf” actions. Kuipers is present at several Nazi rallies and demonstrations, and within- and abroad. His ambitious attitude makes him a leading position within C18 Netherlands. Begin 2010 Kuipers sells Nazi propaganda and gevechtsdolken through its webstore Enemy Of The State.
Another book that is distributed through Dutch far-right websites "The Turner Diaries". In 1978 publishes the American neo-Nazi William Pierce this fictional diary as a novel, where the armed struggle against "the system" is described. A well-known neo-Nazi who was inspired by The Turner Diaries is Timothy McVeigh (1968-2001), alias de Oklahoma Bomber. McVeigh was a hit with his famous attack on a government building in 1995. The way the attack took place is broadly consistent with the way in The Turner Diaries, an FBI building is inflated. Came in the attack 168 people died. In extreme right circles McVeigh has now received a hero. The attacks of Breivik, and the form of the document with which he also claims the attacks show similarities with the book Pierce. At the Dutch speaking part of the neo-Nazi Internet forum Stormfront is a translation of The Turner Diaries published.
Rene Bijkerk (1969) A man from Nijkerkerveen those from 2005 is active in the extreme right movement. He orients himself here on neo-Nazi organizations such as the National Alliance, Blood & Honour and the spread of extreme right-wing music. The contributions of Bijkerk various extreme right forums provide a good insight into his views on the practice of politics. In response to an article that has been placed on the extreme right forum Theudisk, which warned of radical Muslims, Bijkerk allows a member of a shooting club and together with a group of older nationalists a mountain region in Poland to have available.
In 2009 calls the Bijkerk (mostly younger) users of a forum that "Erwache 'calls on no money to spend right-wing stickers, but to spend it on acquiring a good combat equipment and training. He argues that activists should get rid of extreme right-wing extremist symbolism and appearance. Furthermore, he claims to have performed several Lone Wolf actions. Probably Bijkerk translates his nocturnal graffiti actions where he puts Nazi symbols as Lone Wolf actions.
Hendrik Noordhoek (1966) from the Zeeland village Kloetinge since the early 90s active in the extreme right movement to include the CP'86, VB and Outpost. Quickly emerged Noordhoek into ideologue and writer (intellectual) opinion articles. He writes for various Flemish and Dutch magazines. In 2003 he registers on the Internet forum Stormfront under the pseudonym Cicero. In six years he place over 6000 messages that often are full of anti-Semitism. In april 2007 Noordhoek the Stormfronters recommends to gain military experience in the army, for "future nationalist army". He himself had already stated earlier shooting at a shooting. Noordhoek thinks British National Socialists for the IRA 100% should support. In 2009 Noordhoek is for his contributions on this website sentenced to community work 120 noon because of discrimination and threats. During the trial shows that Noordhoek had no criminal record, but a firearm (Licensed). In addition, the lawyer that Noordhoek a simple gardener with a family is. A timid man who is included in the past in a psychiatric clinic. Or the combination of this conviction, mental illness and calls to gain experience for a future nationalist army led to the withdrawal of the arms license is not known to us.
Richard van der Plas (1961) from the Frisian Blija can be called a right-wing veteran with confidence. He became known as a board member of the Centre Democrats and activist of the Action Front National Socialists. But he was best known it was his criminal activities and possession of weapons. Van der Plas has a criminal trade in hard drugs, kidnapping of people, fraud, illegal possession of weapons and assault. In the 90s he regularly visits the shooting Lisse in Amsterdam North. This was a club where only extremely straight people were members of. Many right-wing activists hold it after several years seen. The people who maintain it longer over the years sometimes milder and less extreme. Van der Plas is no here. When in the period around 2001/2002 certain Dutch departments of Blood & Honour (B&H) to reincorporate Van der Plas plays an important role in this. B&H is currently a national organization for Nazi skinheads, that associates itself with violence, weapons and training. Van der Plas is part of a motivated framework and it has a large following among young people. Personally he hits during this period in trouble with firearm possession but another officer or. B&H has been greatly diminished in size, but the radicality of Van der Plas and its orientation towards armed resistance persists. A day after the attacks in Norway, he responds to the observation that the victims of Breivik bad people and leftist idiots are. "Summed up well, desperate situations call for desperate measures. ", said Richard van der Plas.
According to the AIVD there is little threat from the Dutch extreme right. This article shows that the risk of armed right-wing extremist actions is present. Experience shows that terrorist motivated violence is not applied from the current right-wing movement in the Netherlands. However, that does not preclude a loner or a group will go on here anyway. Right-wing forces in the political debate that there are no conventional solutions exist for the alleged crisis that Muslims cause with Social Democrats. This analysis can be interpreted by extreme right-wing groups and individuals to legitimize the use of force.
