"Matthew Althorpe, 29, of Fort Erie, pleaded guilty to facilitating terrorist activity, instructing others to carry out terrorist activity and committing an offence for a terrorist group. Althorpe admitted he created recruitment material for Atomwaffen Division (AWD), an international neo-Nazi group that was declared by the Canadian government in 2021 to be a terrorist entity. He also admitted he facilitated terrorist activities in Canada."
"On its website, the federal government says the Atomwaffen Division was founded in the United States in 2013 and it expanded its operations to a number of countries, including United Kingdom, Canada and Germany. The listing doesn't say if the group is still active. "The group calls for acts of violence against racial, religious, and ethnic groups, and informants, police, and bureaucrats, to prompt the collapse of society," the website says. "AWD has previously held training camps, also known as hate camps, where its members receive weapons and hand-to-hand combat training.""
"At that time, the RCMP said the Active Club network was made up of decentralized cells of white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups, which operated in many U.S. states and in other nations, including Canada. "The network was created in January 2021 and it promotes mixed martial arts to fight against what it asserts is a system that is targeting the white race, as well as a 'warrior spirit' to prepare for a forthcoming race war," the RCMP said in a news release on Dec. 8, 2023."
Matthew Althorpe, 29, of Fort Erie, pleaded guilty in Toronto to three terrorism offences including facilitating terrorist activity, instructing others to carry out terrorist activity and committing an offence for a terrorist group. He admitted creating recruitment material for Atomwaffen Division and facilitating terrorist activities in Canada. The incidents allegedly occurred in Ontario and Quebec between 2018 and 2022. The federal government lists Atomwaffen Division as a 2013 U.S.-founded international neo-Nazi group advocating violence and holding weapons and combat training camps. After the listing, former AWD members reportedly joined Active Club Canada, a decentralized network promoting mixed martial arts and a white supremacist "warrior spirit."
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