A white supremacist group has allegedly spread a shocking hate message on a mobile messenger app after posing in front of the Geelong council building.
A white supremacist group has allegedly spread a shocking hate message on a mobile messenger app after posing in front of the City of Greater Geelong council building.
The image shows eight men dressed in black allegedly in front of the Gheringhap St town hall, with half gesturing the Nazi salute with a sign displaying “Stop immigration. Keep Geelong White”.
The photo was circulated on Telegram accompanied by a message reading “Geelong is being invaded by hordes of blacks and islanders.”
“White men must organise a collective defence against the non-Whites the Liberal and Labor parties are bringing here to replace us (sic),” it stated.
The men are believed to be from the National Socialist Network, a neo-Nazi political group which is understood to be active across Australia.
Earlier this year, about 30 members of the group marched down Spring St in Melbourne and repeatedly performed a Nazi salute.
Anti-Defamation Commission chair Dr Dvir Abramovich, who led a national campaign to ban the swastika and criminalise the Nazi salute, said the group has declared “open season” on immigrants and are trying to insert themselves into the conversation by provoking fear.
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