Five murders across US linked to neo-Nazi group – By Max Jaeger (nypost.com) / Jan 29 2018
A Charles Manson-obsessed neo-Nazi group has been linked to five killings in the US in less than a year, according to a new report.
Current and former members of the violent hate group Atomwaffen Division are believed responsible for deaths in Florida, California and Virginia, the Washington Post reports.
The most recent was the killing of gay, Jewish college student Blaze Bernstein in California, allegedly at the hands of 20-year-old Samuel Woodward, who has ties to the vile hate group, according to ProPublica.
He allegedly plunged a knife into Bernstein 20 times before ditching the Ivy League student’s body in a shallow grave Jan. 2.
Atomwaffen — German for “atomic weapon” — is obsessed with Manson’s attempts to spark a race war and routinely holds wilderness excursions and military-style training events called “hate camp” to further its “ultimate aim of overthrowing the US government through the use of terrorism and guerrilla warfare,” according to the Anti-Defamation League.
The group formed online in 2015 and its cells have spawned in Colorado, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Texas, Massachusetts, Washington and Wisconsin, according to the ADL.
The ADL believes there may be as few as 80 members nationwide. But at least six have been wrapped up in violent crimes and terror plots since May.
Devon Arthurs is accused of killing his roommates, Jeremy Himmelman and Andrew Oneschuk, in Tampa. Police later revealed “all of them had been friends with a common neo-Nazi belief,” the Washington Post reported.
Police discovered that a fourth roommate who was not home at the time, Brandon Russell, was stockpiling guns and homemade explosives that he planned to use to attack power facilities and synagogues.
Russell and Arthurs were co-founders of Atomwaffen, and Himmelman and Oneschuk were also members.
Arthurs told cops he converted to Islam before “blasting” his roommates’ heads as revenge for perceived crimes against Muslims and to prevent Russell’s planned terror attack.
Russell, a 21-year-old Florida National Guard member, was sentenced to five years in prison for stockpiling the explosives.
A sixth Atomwaffen stooge, Nicholas Giampa, was arrested for allegedly killing his girlfriend’s parents in December after they urged their daughter to cut ties with him over his love affair with fascism.
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