Martin Sellner, Co-head of the extreme right-wing Identitarian movement in Austria, has apparently received a large sum of money from the Christchurch-assassin. The interior Ministry confirmed a search warrant for Sellner.

Martin Sellner, Co-head of the extreme right-wing Identitarian movement in Austria, has apparently received a large sum of money as a donation from the Christchurch-assassin. The reported first is “T-Online”. The Austrian interior Ministry confirmed a search warrant for Sellner.

late On Monday evening published Sellner, a 15-minute Video in which he tells of a search of his house, and his parents, when all means of communication such as Smartphones and computers, but also debit cards the Austrian police had been seized. He is subject to a determination of the course of proceedings for establishing or membership in a terrorist organization.

the donation from the year 2018

Continue Sellner stated that the police came to him with the RAID before. He had only noticed a day earlier that he had already received in the year 2018 a “disproportionate” amount of a donor with the surname of Christchurch-be assassin. He was thanked, as always, by Mail to the donor and then with his lawyer want to discuss whether it could, in fact, the assassin.

Before the donation, I can report, have already taken place, the search of the house. This is referred to Sellner as “completely covered, completely unjustified”. He wanted to leave the amount received to a charitable institution. The assassin did him in “the thing” and repression of the Identitarian movement want to trigger, speculated Sellner. He dismissed any connection to the assassination of Christchurch.

In the attack on two mosques in the new Zealand city of Christchurch, a right-wing Australians had at 15. In March, 50 people shot.

Connections to Austria?

searches of “T-Online” had revealed that the bomber had travelled in the Winter of 2018. Whether he had also contacts with the Identitarian movement is not known. The sub-Committee for home Affairs in the Austrian Parliament will discuss the potential Connections of the assassin to Austria.

In his “Manifesto” speaks of the offender, among other things, from the “great exchange”, a right-wing conspiracy theory, which assumes that the population of a country is gradually being replaced by migrants. This is one of the Central themes of the Identitarian movement.

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