Shocking graffiti and stickers promoting a white supremacist neo-Nazi group could be part of a northern beaches racist recruitment drive, an expert says.
A shocking image showing a Nazi swastika and white supremacist slogans daubed on a building on Sydney’s northern beaches could be part of a local racist recruitment campaign.
The photograph of the vile messaging and the symbol of the hateful German Nazi regime was taken close to a popular walking track just minutes from homes at Killarney Heights.
It has emerged just days after the Manly Daily reported that alarming marketing material for a notorious far right white supremacist organisation had started appearing on the northern beaches.
Concerned residents in Forestville and Killarney Heights have been removing a trail of stickers promoting the National Socialist Network (NSN), an extremist group that advocates for a “White Australia”.
An expert in terrorism violent extremism told the Manly Daily on Monday that the emergence of the “white power” graffiti and stickers for the NSN could be part of a local recruitment strategy.
Professor Michele Grossman, of Melbourne’s Deakin University, said the material could also be a way for the group to announce its presence on the northern beaches and saying “we’re here”.
“It’s either local members of NSN – they have had to get hold of the material somewhere – or it’s an exploratory tactic to see if it gets any local bites.” Prof. Grossman said.
“The material’s purpose is to get people online and search for the group.”
Read the article by Jim O’Rourke in The Daily Telegraph.