Far-right activists make a Nazi salute and (right) the symbol of the Order of Nine Angles (Picture: Rex/HOPE Not Hate)

The UK Government is being urged to urgently ban a neo-Nazi Satanist group which backs murder and sexual violence.

A new report by the anti-fascist monitoring group HOPE not Hate calls for immediate action to target the ‘world’s most extreme far-right terror group’, which it says remains active in the UK The Order of Nine Angles (O9A), which began in Britain, advocates barbaric violence and even human sacrifice as a strategy to destabilise society and overthrow what it sees as Jewish influence, HOPE not Hate say.

It adds that the group – which it says should be officially proscribed as a terrorist organisation – ‘blends Satanism, paganism and Nazism’ and aims to reduce the population of ‘mundanes’ through ‘culling’.



The Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee, Labour’s Yvette Cooper has branded the new evidence ‘deeply disturbing’ and called on the Home Secretary to ‘immediately refer it to the Government’s Proscription Review Group.’


Labour MP Yvette Cooper says the report was ‘sobering’ (Picture: PA)

A 16-year-old jailed this year for planning a terror attack cited Order of Nine Angles as an influence (Picture: Counter Terrorism Policing North East)

Highlighting ‘four Nazis convicted of terrorist offences linked to O9A’ in the last 12 months, HOPE not Hate suggest the group’s global membership could be as high as 2,000.

It adds that O9A try to infiltrate other far-right groups and even the police and ‘is having a resurgence amongst the most extreme far-right terror groups in the UK’.

Claiming many drawn to the ideology are ‘extremely young, with the youngest person convicted being 16 years old’, the organisation adds: ‘Cruelty is a core part of O9A and it encourages followers to engage in extreme violence, sexual assault and human sacrifices.

‘It promotes its tactics of sexual violence to the wider far-right by infiltrating other Nazi organisations and propagandising and promoting its ideas.’

The government says the police have disrupted eight terrorist plots related to violent right-wing extremist ideologies since 2017 and that the threat is ‘evolving and growing’.

The Order of Nine Angles symbol (Picture: Hope Not Hate)

Supporters of the far-right ‘National Action’ group, another movement highlighted in the report (Picture: Rex Features)

In 2016, the Labour MP Jo Cox was murdered in the street by a far-right terrorist.

Last week the government banned a right wing group and made membership punishable with 10 years in prison.

Today’s report, called ‘State of Hate 2020’, also suggests there is an ‘unprecedented’ global terror threat from an expanding group of far-right activists, fuelled by a ‘young, leaderless online community’.

The report also calls on the messaging platform Telegram to take action against the far right, claiming users on the O9A-affiliated ‘Rapewaffen’ channel share videos of extreme violence, sexual abuse and murder.

It adds: ‘O9A’s sick ideas have drawn in young extremists in the UK and elsewhere, and have helped nourish a dangerous culture of unprecedented depravity amongst the extreme right, which has none of the moral constraints that previous generations of far-right activists had.’

Ryan Fleming, involved with both National Action and the O9A, was highlighted in the report. He has been jailed for sexually abusing a young girl and a young man (Picture: West Yorkshire Police)

However, the report also suggests the ‘traditional’ British far-right is at its weakest for decades.

HOPE not Hate chief executive Nick Lowles called for an overhaul of the UK counter terrorism strategy, branding it ‘wholly inadequate for dealing with rapidly changing danger.’

He continued: “In all my 30 years campaigning against the far-right, the Order of Nine Angles is the most extreme and disturbing group I have ever encountered.



‘It’s explicit encouragement of murder and sexual violence, including rape, make it one of the most serious threats to public safety we’ve ever seen.’

Labelling the findings ‘sobering’ Ms Cooper added: ‘The combination of Nazi-Satanism, extreme violence and sexual abuse makes it particularly troubling and action needs to be taken to prevent them grooming and radicalising other people.’

The Home Office does not comment on whether particular groups are under consideration for being banned, though it keeps the list ‘under review’.

A spokesperson added: ‘The Government is taking action to root out and dismantle the groups that promote extreme right-wing views and we are giving police the tools and resources they need to tackle this threat.

‘Just last week, the Government banned the right-wing terrorist group Sonnenkrieg Division in the UK, making membership punishable by 10 years in jail.’

Metro.co.uk was unable to contact O9A and attempted to contact Telegram.

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