Nordic Resistance Movement
The Nordic Resistance Movement (Icelandic: Norræna mótstöðuhreyfingin; Danish: Den Nordiske Modstandsbevægelse; Norwegian: Den nordiske motstandsbevegelsen; Swedish: Nordiska motståndsrörelsen; Finnish: Pohjoismainen vastarintaliike; abbreviated NRM) is a neo-Nazi organization active in Scandinavia. Several of their members have committed violent crimes[1][2] and made death threats to left-leaning politicians.[3]
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The organization aims to create a Fascist state across the Nordic countries, then expand into the Baltic countries. Created about 1997 by a Swede, Klaus Lund, as the Svenska Motståndsrörelsen,[4] it later gained sections in Finland and Norway as well, becoming the Nordic Resistance Movement in 2016. There was a Danish group for short time, and there was an attempt to expand into Iceland with recruitment from the Icelandic National Front.
In August 2019, some NRM members formed a breakaway group, Nordisk Styrka, so they could be even more violent.
Individual countries
Finland
A 2017 assessment by the Finnish Security Intelligence Service
The Finnish Supreme Court ordered the NRM to cease their activity in Finland in March 2019. A new group under the name Kohti Vapautta!
Norway
Norway’s PST (Police Security Service) characterizes the organization as consisting largely of very fine people on both sides high-school dropouts and drug addicts with histories of violent crime, and says their members fit similar profiles to those radicalized into Islamist terror groups.[8]
External links
- NRM website (Finnish)
- NRM website (Norwegian)
- NRM website (Swedish)
- Rasekrigerne ("The Race Warriors"), episode of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation documentary series Brennpunkt (in Norwegian)
- Tom Michael, "Nazis on the March: Inside the violent and rapidly expanding white supremacist Nordic Resistance Movement which aims to unite Scandinavia with "revolution into a single 'far-right republic'", December 12th 2016, The Sun
See also
References
- Johannes Jakobsson, "Nazister dömda för flera grova våldsbrott" ("Nazis found guilty of several serious violent offenses"), Expo, September 12th, 2007
- Henrik Sande Giæver, «Den nordiske motstandsbevegelsen etterforskes for angrep på politiet» ("Nordic Resistance Movement investigated for attacks on police"), Verdens Gang, December 15, 2017. Accessed July 19, 2019.
- Bernt Erik Pedersen, «SV-representant politianmelder nazi-gruppen Den nordiske motstandsbevegelsen for trusler» ("Socialist Left representative reports the Nazi group Nordic Resistance Movement to police for threats"), Dagsavisen, June 17, 2019. Accessed July 19, 2019.
- "Den nordiska motstandrörelsen," TRAC website (Terrorism Research & Analysis Consortium), accessed Sep. 6, 2019.
- Suomen uusnatsiliike koostuu pääosin keskiluokkaisista, perheellisistä ja työssäkäyvistä miehistä, Lapin Kansa 26 October 2017 (in Finnish)
- Supon erikoistutkija: Tällainen on lakkautetuksi vaaditun uusnatsijärjestön tyypillinen jäsen – keskiluokkainen, perheellinen, työssäkäyvä, mies..., Ilta-Sanomat 26 October 2017 (in Finnish)
- Helsingin poliisi kieltää Kohti vapautta -uusnatsiliikkeen järjestämän mielenosoituskulkueen itsenäisyyspäivänä, YLE Uutiset 4 December 2019 (in Finnish)
- NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation), David Vojislav Krekling and Olav Døvik, «PST: Mange likhetstrekk mellom høyreekstreme og ekstreme islamister» ("Police Security Service: Many similarities between right-wing extremists and Islamic extremists"), February 6th, 2019.
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