France: Champs-Elys es gunman left Internet message - "Look at tele Sunday, I will be a star"

AFP via Babelfish translation ^ | July 15, 2002

[HAL9000]

Gunner of the Fields-Elysées: "Look at tele Sunday, I will be the star"

Monday July 15, 2002 - 19h25 GMT

PARIS, 15 juil (AFP) - Maxime Brunerie, the man who tried to kill Jacques Chirac at the time of the procession of July 14 informed on an Internet site neo-Nazi, in a sentence, which it prepared something: "Look at tele Sunday, I will be the star".

The message of Brunerie was sent on July 13 on this Internet site whose name "skrewdriver" was revealed Monday by the parquet floor of Paris.

After having clicked on the image of a combatant of the shade being detached on a swastika rougeoyante, one reaches the page of English the néo-Nazi group "Combat-18", a "very violent" movement, to which Brunerie was close, according to the parquet floor of Paris.

In a section reserved for the messages of Net surfers, Maxime Brunerie, who signs right under the pseudonym "Maxime" wrote Saturday with 13h01 GMT: "Watch the TV this sunday, I will Be the star... Death to zog, 88!", i.e. "look at tele Sunday, I will be the star, died with zog".

The "88" is in language coded safety with Hitler (Heil Hitler), H being the eighth letter of the alphabet and "Zog" (Zionist occupation government), wants to say "government of occupation Zionist".

The Combat-18 group for its part was pleased in an official statement published in the site with the "events" with July 14 "which recall that C18 and its supporteurs are eager and able to act in any European country".

"Us minks not of the people because of their racial origin but we will continue to aim at the world capitalists and their allies, which are useful of the race like means of arriving at their own ends. Our enemies are as well on the right as on the left of the political chess-board ", the group continues.

"the combat continues. Live France (in French). Europe, awakes!", C18 concludes.

According to the investigation of the murder squad, Maxime Brunerie had premeditated his act: July 6, it had bought the rifle which it tried to use against the head of the State. Three days later, the 9, it rented a vehicle to go to involve itself with the shooting in Burgundy.

Monday, it was placed of office in a psychiatric unit with Villejuif (the Valley-of-Marne), because of "its dangerosity for itself and the others".

[Catspaw]

Combat 18? That's one nasty group.

Here's an old story about them.

Monday, April 19, 1999 Published at 17:50 GMT 18:50 UK

UK

Combat 18's hardline racism

Combat 18 was an off-shoot of the BNP

If the nail bomb in Brixton and the new attack in Brick Lane was sent by the far-right group Combat 18, it marks a significant escalation in the group's tactics.

The highly secretive organisation has attracted notoriety in the past - particularly after it claimed to have organised fighting at the England-Ireland football match at Lansdowne Road in 1995.

Combat 18 is thought to have links with foreign neo-Nazi groups across Europe

Whether it did or not, the group's name, which is based on Adolf Hitler's initials - the first and eighth letters in the alphabet - raised its public profile.

In 1997, the underground group was back in the news after Danish police seized three letter bombs hidden in videocassettes and destined for London addresses. Combat 18 was believed to have been behind the operation.

Far-right rivals were targeted but celebrities including former swimmer Sharron Davies also found themselves on the hit-list.

Swimmer Sharron Davies was targeted. Her husband is black

When left-wing actress Vanessa Redgrave received threats from a group believed to be Combat 18, Scotland Yard installed alarms and safety devices at her home.

Tottenham Hotspur owner Alan Sugar was also said to have been targeted, as were MPs Paddy Ashdown and Peter Hain, and journalists Anna Ford and Bernard Levin.

Last month British police carried out a series of raids on members of the neo-Nazi group, seizing computer disks, weapons and ammunition.

Combat 18's logo

In a separate incident also in March, two British soldiers were arrested on suspicion of having links with the group. It prompted the Armed Forces minister, Doug Henderson, to warn that servicemen with ties to racist organisations risked the being thrown out of the Forces and prosecution.

In 1997, three members were jailed at the Old Bailey for possessing racist publications, and later that year, Mark Atkinson was jailed for publishing its Stormer magazine.

Atkinson was caught with hundreds of copies of the 12-page magazine, described by Judge George Bathurst-Norman, as containing "vile out-pourings of hatred and incitement to violence".

One of the magazine's targets was Lynette Bruno, the elderly mother of boxer Frank Bruno.

 

Members of the group are believed to call the UK government "Zog", standing for "Zionist Occupation Government", and base their philosophy on hard-line racism and opposition to immigration.

It rejects the approach of some previous racist groups of persuading people to join its cause, preferring direct action instead. Membership has been estimated at between 40 and 200.

Charlie Sargent, a one-time leader of the group, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1998 for the murder of a fellow Combat 18 member, told Nick Ryan of the Independent on Sunday: "I don't vote. What's the point? I'm not gonna play their f****** silly little games _ Race not Nation - we're not British nationalists, we're racialists."

This is an attitude consistent with the group's slogan "White revolution is the only solution".

Neo-Nazis have been linked to football hooliganism

It is thought that the group, which was formed in 1992 from the security wing of the British National Party, controls a highly profitable music business, selling CDs and merchandising of far-right bands.

But Gerry Gable, publisher of the anti-fascist magazine Searchlight, was sceptical of any Combat 18 involvement in the Brixton bombing.

"If you look at what's happened to them recently, they've been so well infiltrated by the police, the army and anti-fascists like us, they couldn't sneeze without us knowing," said Mr Gable

But he did not rule out that the attack could have been racially motivated.

"If it's a racial attack, it could be someone who has been in Combat 18 has got increasingly frustrated with the lack of action and decided to do it themselves. The technology needed to make a bomb is so simple and easy to find," he said.

[knighthawk]

These people make the Stormfront nutters look moderate. I hope this event will be an impulse to get rid of them.