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Martin Sellner, a member of the rightwing cell Identitare Bewegung said: “Those people who came here illegally during the refugee crisis - they need to be sent back home.” When asked if he felt it was right to send people back to the warzones they had escaped from, he responded: “A lot of them didn’t come from Syria to begin with, and for the others, I think we should create zones and areas around Europe.”

BBC/GETTY Martin Sellner, a member of the rightwing cell Identitare Bewegung, called for 'zones' to be created

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Those people who came here illegally during the refugee crisis - they need to be sent back home Martin Sellner

Fellow member Philipp Huemer jumped in to redefine them as “safe zones”, and said: “The United Nations plan to create safe zones”. After the Newsnight journalist asked them about the Nazi overtones of their beliefs, Sellner said: “[The fact] that you automatically make this association is also showing part of the problem, because a lot of Europeans are conditioned. “When they hear some words - like ‘people’, ‘culture’, ‘border’, ‘identity’, or being ‘proud of oneself’ - immediately, a kind of reflex kicks in, and creates this Nazi reflex.”

BBC The group appear in one of their broadcasts

The pair tried to explain what their part of the alt-right movement represented, and said: “We are a European movement, we exist in France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, and we are overcoming old style nationalism, chauvinistic nationalism, which is attacking other European countries. “We think we have a European culture, and today in the 21st century we need to stick together. “We want a Europe that maintains the national difference that secures out borders, that is strong in the outside but soft in the inside.”

BBC The two men discussed their expectations for the future of their far-right movement