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Police raided the homes of suspected Merseyside neo-Nazis after thwarting an anti-Semitic protest outside the office of Jewish MP Luciana Berger.

The ECHO can today expose the far right activists who were arrested after organising a demonstration to support online troll Garron Helm.

While police have not confirmed the activity, we can today reveal details of the online community which openly discussed the vile campaign targeting the Labour MP.

Last month Nazi-sympathiser Helm, 21, was jailed for four weeks after he admitted sending “abusive and upsetting” messages to Ms Berger.

Helm, of Thomson Road, Litherland, sent an anti-Semitic tweet which showed a Holocaust-era yellow star on the Wavertree MP’s head with the hashtag ‘Hitler was right’.

He was released last Friday and the next day National Action supporters were arrested in Derwent Road East, Stoneycroft near Ms Berger’s constituency office.

Police later raided addresses across Merseyside, including a house in Ronald Street, Old Swan, where shocked neighbours said up to 30 armed police, together with detectives, forensic teams and dogs, were deployed.

Helm, using the Facebook profile Athelwulf Helm then spoke out on social media.

The extremist, branded an “immature loner” in court, said: “It has come to my attention that eight National Action activists were arrested yesterday while demonstrating and attempting to meet with me in Liverpool.

“Make no mistake, my imprisonment was the beginning of a long and bloody campaign against our movement and will of the British people.

“You need to be vigilant from now on. If you even remotely associate yourself with NA you will be monitored by Special Branch.”

Members of Stormfront – a white nationalist and neo-Nazi online forum, also said eight National Action activists were arrested.

Right wing thug Stephen Dumont, 19, of Rosewood Close, Netherley, who was jailed last year for his part in a violent attack on anti-fascists in Bold Street, took to Facebook to comment on the arrests.

He said: “I was there bull**** got nothing at all on us but at 5am police along with a office from Manchester (maybe CTU) searched my house got my PC and lap top but I still have my xbox so laughing.”

One user called ‘John London’ said: “They had planned a demonstration for yesterday and apparently the police were waiting for them – no doubt to protect Jew You Know.

“They were searched and then arrested and held overnight while their homes were searched.”

Another poster, called ‘NationalYouth’, said he could “categorically state” they intended “purely to hold a short protest, where a speech was to be given by the organiser of the event and a small banner was to be unfurled for a photo opportunity”.

He said: “As our group reached Luciana Berger’s office, a group of officers approached them and carried out a stop and search.

“Despite nothing untoward being found on them, they were still arrested, the allegation being that they had ‘conspired to cause criminal damage’.

“The basis for this being that someone, somewhere, apparently overheard someone else talking about doing something to Mrs Berger’s office.”

Stormfront member ‘Goyles1488’ – a numerical reference to Hitler – said the meeting was a “welcome back” for Helm.

He said: “Police found nothing on them that fits the charges and claim they were acting on an alleged tip off.

“This has been another trumped up ‘conspiracy’ charge which they have wheeled out in the past when trying to gather intelligence.

“They were told that the charges are going to be dropped. This was however an opportunity to seize devices and stuff.”

Merseyside Police told the ECHO that nine men and one woman had been arrested, leading to searches at properties across the region.

All 10 have now been released on bail pending further enquiries.

The force said it was unable to confirm whether these arrests were linked to far right activity.

A police spokesman said: “It is speculation. We are still at an early stage of our investigation and we cannot comment on this.”

Luciana Berger said she was unable to comment because of the ongoing police investigation.

Since Helm was jailed white supremacists have waged a coordinated war against Ms Berger, with American Andrew Anglin, owner of The Daily Stormer, advising followers how to abuse her online in a campaign called ‘Operation; Filthy Jew B****’.

There are now serious concerns over her safety, and the ECHO understands Metropolitan Police are investigating hundreds of vile messages sent to the MP.

Labour leader Ed Miliband urged websites like Facebook and Twitter to crack down on perpetrators of “sickening abuse”.

And John Mann MP, chairman of a parliamentary anti-Semitism group, suggested introducing ASBO-like “internet banning orders” in a House of Commons debate.