Police have charged the leader of a neo-Nazi group after his fight outside a TV network put a security guard in hospital.
A neo-Nazi who allegedly assaulted a Channel Nine security guard has been charged.
Thomas Sewell, who leads the far-right National Socialist Network, filmed a video at the Melbourne Docklands office yesterday afternoon, hours before A Current Affair broadcast a story involving his organisation.
Victoria Police confirmed this morning Sewell had been hit with an array of charges.
“Detectives from Counter Terrorism Command last night arrested two men as part of their investigation to an alleged assault in Docklands on 1 March,” police said.
“A 27-year-old Rowville man has subsequently been charged with affray, recklessly cause injury and unlawful assault.
“He has been bailed to appear at Melbourne Magistrates Court on 27 July.
A 21-year-old Rowville man was released pending further enquiries.”
Victoria Police’s Counter Terrorism Command is responsible for investigating incidents of terrorism and communal violence.
Communal violence is defined as violence or threats of violence between groups that define themselves by their differences. Specifically, this relates to differences based on ideology, politics and religion.
Sewell, a former Australian Defence Force soldier, found himself in the national spotlight in January after he and his far-right group stormed a small town in the Grampians region in Victoria.
Read the article by Natalie Wolfe in The Daily Telegraph.