03:19 EDT, 7 March 2021
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Fears right wing groups breeding out of Melbourne could try on a Capitol Hill-style riot are growing amid an escalation in right-wing activity.
On Monday, police nabbed two men linked to a far right group over a shocking incident that saw a security guard allegedly bashed on a city street.
The disturbing incident comes hot on the heels of increased sightings of neo-Nazi groups congregating en masse in country Victoria.
The disturbing incident comes hot on the heels of increased sightings of neo-Nazi groups congregating en masse in country Victoria and in the heart of Melbourne
Detectives from Victoria Police s Counter Terrorism Command arrested Thomas Sewell, the leader of the National Socialist Network. He is pictured giving Channel 9 reporter Seb Costello the Nazi salute
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Blair Cottrell, a neo-Nazi Australian who terrorist Brenton Tarrant had idolised. Photo / Getty Images
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By: Rohan Smith
At a fruit and vegetable market in Melbourne s southeast, a pony-tailed man brazenly strolled through the stalls wearing an armband featuring the unmistakable hate symbol of Nazi Germany – the swastika.
The man, whose image has been shared with Victoria Police, has not been tracked down.
There is a temptation to assume the Hitler-sympathiser is a fringe-dweller out to make a scene and little else. He most likely is.
âSickeningâ: Man flaunts swastika at market A man wearing a Nazi-swastika armband has been photographed fruit shopping at a Melbourne market, a move thatâs been condemned as âsickeningâ.
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Premium Content A man wearing a Nazi-swastika armband has been photographed fruit shopping at a Melbourne market. One of Australia s leading civil rights organisations has condemned the sickening act and called on parliament to ban public displays of Nazism, the hate-filled ideology whose followers murdered six million Jewish people in the Holocaust. The individual was photographed on Friday afternoon wearing the Nazi symbol at the Moorabbin Wholesale Farmers Fresh market by a horrified shopper, who called police.