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A neo-Nazi group named System Resistance Network have claimed responsibility for vile graffiti daubed around Cardiff .

On social media site Gab, which has been criticised for becoming a home to the far right, they posted images of their handiwork in the city.

They showed a wall with “Nazi Zone”painted on. There were also swastikas and posters declaring, ‘P*** rape gangs coming to your town soon.”

The fascists said: “Our propaganda at your March and meeting places.

“We’re taking names and remembering faces.

“Zero tolerance for non-white races!”

The graffiti was plastered around Grangetown the day before an anti-racism march in Cardiff .

(Image: Greg Pycroft) (Image: Greg Pycroft/PA Wire)

Hope Not Hate’s Nick Ryan said the groups like System Resistence Network were small but dangerous.

He said names frequently changed, were secretive and actively recruited young, technologically savvy people.

He said: “They are small in number but they are dangerous.”

He said they mimicked Islamic extremists by renaming their groups once outlawed.

“Anjem Choudry’s original group al-Muhajiroun was banned so they would set up others.

“There were all sorts of different versions and the government would ban one and then the other and different versions would pop up each time.

“This is similar, although a bit more embryonic, but they are going down a parallel path.”

(Image: UGC MWL)

Tell Mama, which combats Islamophobia said System Resistence Network was “fairly new” forming perhaps in August 2017.

Tell Mama believed that the group had also stuck posters in Cathays, Cardiff, in December and have been active in Swansea.

“System Resistance Network are small but they are slick in their video production and design of posters,” a Tell Mama spokesman said.

“The concerning thing is that they have now targeted Scotland, England and Wales.

“Even if there are only 10 people that is a degree of organisation.”

Tell Mama said the group was “building a network up.”

“In Southampton they deliberately targeted an LGBT event,” the spokesman said.

“Here they went just before the Stand up to Racism march because they knew it was a way of getting maximum publicity.

“As horrific and horrible as they are, it is a means for them to promote themselves.

“Because they have been around for few months they are quite effective on social media.”

(Image: Richard Swingler)

The group was suspended by Twitter and now use a site called Gab, a social media site favoured by the so-called ‘alt-right.’

“They were previously known as Vanguard Britannia,” The TellMama spokesman said.

“That was based on a white supremacist group called Vanguard America.

“They became more extreme in their ideology and were very influenced by American neo-Nazis, people like James Mason.”

Mason created a group named Universal Order and wrote about murderer Charles Manson as though he were a prophet.

“The idea of leaderless resistance, he advocates that kind of lone wolf activity,” the Tell Mama spokesman said.

“What they are doing now is using individuals to propagate hatred.

“They have not necessarily done anything violent, but they have an ability to cause harm through their graffiti.

“This is not on the scale of National Action but we should be concerned.”

He advised people to photograph and report vandalism they found.

“What’s concerning is their ideological commitment to National Socialism,” he said.

“These are not teens flirting with provocative imagery.

“They whole heartedly believe it. There is always a threat with these extremists.”

Cardiff South and Penarth MP Stephen Doughty said: “I was utterly sickened and disgusted by the posters which appeared in Grangetown and I am heartened by the community response to such far right activity in our community.

“I have already had conversations with senior police and counter terrorism officials and understand there is a full investigation under way which will hopefully bring the perpetrators to justice.

“I don’t want to speculate on the origin of the posters given the ongoing investigation but I have taken a very firm line against all extremist organisations and the deceitful methods by which a number of them attempt to brand themselves in order to evade prosecution.

“Should it become clear that those responsible have links to any proscribed organisation we would expect the police and relevant authorities to take the firmest action possible, but I also regularly urge home office ministers to keep the rapidly evolving world of extremist organisations and the different names and disguises they use under review.”

South Wales Police said there had been no arrests over the racist graffiti in Cardiff and that “inquiries are ongoing to identify those responsible.”