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a tag 2021. german is commemoration day. so the victims of armed conflict, right wing extremists from across the country, marching in memory of nazi wal criminal, rudolph hands who was buried here. a parade is organized by default, right? body dead was i to think you think it was russians, lunatics, people don't do this sort of thing. it's the same every year. unbelievable. i never forget today and tomorrow. the site for a better germany or the fatherland for the people, for the homeland ponder toward the margins with folk songs. tonight, the party behaves itself. there are no riots,
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but according to domestic intelligence dedicated to a vague, the 3rd way is dangerous. it's one of many neo nazi groups on the right. so across europe, the anti democratic and open the racist that go is the ethnic cleansing of europe, these a violent extremist. remember that if you're in this meal you, you'll end up in prison sooner or later. i guess people see they film the acts of violence and show off the weapons of
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french arians. come right, so it's time to take stock. how many white people are there in your neighborhood? they are also capable of mazda in 201927 year old, neo nazi, jumped to people in jaila, germany outside of synagogue. and they connect via social media even on dating sites. for white people, only the video for it is are aligned. we didn't need to play cards, we were out to kill in france, germany and eastern europe. the fall right poses a growing threat to freedom and democracy. the on september,
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the 21st 2021 outside of power. as courthouse journalists have gathered for the stats of the trial of 6 full members of the entre right group, oh, i asked the young man are accused of planning attacks on mosques and politicians. one of the targets was drawn, luke mental shown then the leader of the leftist le phones also meas, potty, even from ethics. have to understand these young people of rooting that lives. so talking about setting people, i'm fine. i'm splitting the throat of interior, administer kristof custom at its opponent, the quote sentence, the group leader to 9 years in prison, jo, going to z, confessed, and now expresses ramos, according to his lawyer,
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today he distances himself from xenophobia and the thought of your end racism these notes have left us now, but nor a mind that's just politics, you know, going those in agree to give us an interview, but only on his terms, which he put in writing. there's in the mountains of 50000, you wrote contractual penalty. we reject is times little going know, seen, grew up in a middle class family now, my se, se a friends. his mother is willing to talk to us, but doesn't want to be recognized. vibrancy, sushi. we lived here until 2017,
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until the de la gong was arrested. we're going to fit into a little going to the scene was just a teenager when he began embracing nationalist ideology is what we might be g. my was one day. he asked if he could go to camp with some friends on weekends . i thought he's finally found some friends. he should go and he was young. but the camp council actually before i met at the time and told me there was nothing to worry about his own, turned out to be from the revolutionary nationalist, used to put this in this semester. and i just brought it to the renewal form. but the little girl was patriotic and a positive sense, you know, full of ideas. violence didn't play a role at that point and it was more about political ideas. but when i was young, i was more of a hippy, but she wanted to reinvent friends. a new nationalistic france. but this reinvention wasn't going to be peaceful. missing trying to buy a gun on
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a neo nazi website, which had a swastika logo, is user name was french soldier, communicated with the use a moon load. the if i can have such material, the future friends will be changed. the distance and money is not a problem. the negotiations went on for weeks. for an a k 471000 euros is too high. i take them up to 600 to 700. understand the iris being called at the border and taking 5 years in jail. on june the 20 falls 2017. he wrote for the moment we stay on this, but for the next time you're contacting croatia should lower the price. oh is late to a special unit of the french police stormed a apartment room for you. it was brutal. like in a movie, a nightmare 15 people with helmets and machine guns are my daughter was crying. we
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had to unpack everything we, they trans, the whole house upside down and searching everything. just every single come at fleming's on industry to show you the scene was sentenced to 9 years in jail for a membership and a terrorist organization for planning attacks. meanwhile, in the capital, another incident to kind of blow up of the in the central terrace, the former audience indian rugby players to dizzy. cool. i wonder who were still dead in a box. see that's all on march the 19th 2022 and the who came to the aid of a foreigner who was being harassed by 2 men. after a scuffle and a non comp bouncers separated the men. but they returned and shot around. but lou louis literally or a well known figure in the ultra right scene, was arrested
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a few days later in hungry. the paris december. the 20 to 2020 to 3 kinds were killed and 3 others injured in an attack outside a cottage control center. the community was in shock because 69 year old perpetrator was motivated by his n. if it would be october 12th 2022, a 19 year old shot dead to man outside and l g p. t coupon and brought his lava and fled to seen his father was a known right wing extremist. shortly afterwards, the young man committed suicide after posting on twitter, feeling no regrets. isn't that funny? the crime generated a huge response on social media with use is declaring the intention to carry out copycat killings, hate speech spread like wildfire across the message, the apps,
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a neo nazi forums, including this french language, neo nazi website journalists are explicitly unwelcome. here the journalists are the lowest form of life on earth. with the high end is of organized journalism, there is only one solution to consistently refused contact. the site has several 1000 users and hundreds of thousands of boasts the older users have pseudonyms. the 1st rule is no sharing of personal information. the 2 members have violated the rules and exchange email addresses. they are now banned.
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we discover a website that sells the garage memorabilia. supposedly genuine military metals insignia was awesome. s. s membership cods propaganda. postcards. the collection is, was around $44000.00 euros the the scientists, illegal distribution and sale of nazi objects is prohibited in many countries, including france and germany. about if a site is operated from abroad. police a powerless the legislators basic. yeah. one. yeah. of course i'll do here is what the problem is that the search engine operators don't do their job. they don't remove things even though they should. another big problem is the investigative scope. so we have specialized teams in the field of cyber security and they have
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the means to trace and no risk perpetrators. and on my mobile i found that to prove, uh, but there are simply far too few investigators. it's an impossible task and more and more support among the items for sale, assigned photos of nazi offices. the we discovered that one of these man is still alive and living in short, god born in 1925, he served as an s. s officer. beautiful pictures of me, edward by signing these photographs, he asked to give this quote to you get hot sample is widely admired among right wing radicals because of his s as past or people the op. be a big i wanted to send the photo and somebody to sign windows i even get there's
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only goes to check or something. it's amazing. i said that i use the feel and then hungry has done on gum, that all connected to to higgins will be good for someone who speaks openly about his time in the ss and keeps these metals in a small box. because he says it's i there, this is the vol from s s batch that you will on your left up wrong. cuz he, i, in the all, in cross country i was awarded for fighting the out that came to ended up in big colon of the symbol joined us as pun, subdivision. that's what i see in 1944. but he says that was off to june 10th the day, the division mass of good an entire village, and also to a france killing $643.00 men, women,
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and children. the sample denies his units responsibility for the mass. again, as opposed proof, he shows us a book by a convicted french calling to cause denial. the young people still then signed photos of him. he says, if he does push the defects, i think it's positive that young people wants to examine the past. that's my reason for historical and dine key is as fast as so and by the time never expected it to take off. i guess it was us to the in a region that france and germany photo of a, through wild history today, it regularly serves as a meeting place for right wing extremists,
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some whole pagan ceremonies, others commemorate the german armed forces in february 2023, all star it is band a neo nazi festival in alsace, an inside agrees to talk to us peace of 10 years in prison for races, types of crimes, and austin, a rent called, but least, little doubts about his mindset. the no one died in the earth and attack because someone woke up, an alarm was raised in time. everyone was able to escape. swastikas were left at the scene. now about 40, the man has served his sentence, it is ready to talk. he says he won't give any details about prisons. it wouldn't be found anywhere other than this meeting place. is i don't
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know if the police might get to see this movie. i'm suspicious. you're filming, i'm filming. i don't want my words taken out of context. do you have your version? i have my washer the he grew up in social housing, enjoying the neo nazi movement at a young age. now most of this, when i was young, i was what's called skunk because i felt last until i met people with an ideology. do he want us to move to the more i became part of the so called extremist meal, you excuse me? some more i felt that is not possible to live alongside the corridors who took between the people in the early 2, thousands, it became a skinhead, a defective neo nazi bands. the openly insight violence the
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he fell into a spiral of hatred and violence and turned to crime a some of those, if you're in this meal you, you'll end up in prison sooner or later and see it tightly organized like the military, even in jail who stock did this ideology. i spread my ideology in prison. i wanted to convert everybody. let's see here. i think that's the sort of thing you normally hear from jihad is so well. it's the same, i guess you let them aside. then more people will support, as of course, the you today he and his associates pursuing a long term plan. they want to emphasize right, the whole of society,
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starting with security services. we don't, we want to infiltrate the army, the police, and the penal system, and spread or ideology. there must be one of the one to operate under cover and restore order. last, what sounds like the plant of a hollywood thriller is already becoming a reality. in 2021 report has uncovered a scandal in the french army. thousands of soldiers were found to be neo nazi sympathizers. the idea of the file right extremism had also been identified within the police forces of north ryan westphalia. the regional interior minister, habit oil appear before the press. on september, the 16th 2020 thousands of officers had spread nazi propaganda and hate speech and track groups. testing these are pretty type is in small groups strikes at the heart of the police and am i not fussing?
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it's a disgrace and for the end of the present, sorry. we are talking about the worst, most disgusting form of neo nazi, the racist and n p refugee hate is fine to show. as on december, the 7th 2022, the german police launched a major raid against the high spoiled at 3000 officers, searched more than 150 houses, and apartments 25 people were arrested, including former officers with a k s. k, who were among the ring leaders of an attempted to the domestic intelligence officers, had been tracking the group for years. the, the police confiscated weapons munition at extensive propaganda material. the auth, or it is also targeted, an association called who in the town. the group is made up mainly
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a form of police officers and soldiers in its promotional videos, the group presents itself as a charitable professional network, the thought, in fact, it's a power, a military organization, with strict rules and bizarre rituals and investigation by developing daily newspaper tots describes one of these rituals. the key is handed esco filled with red wine symbolizing that he has survived death. he drinks it enhanced back the scope. the highly respected members are awarded a wolf's ring. the ring belongs to the network in the event of retirement or death,
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the ring is returned and given to a new candidate who in the town denies any links to neo nazis. the frankfurt november the 25th 2021. a former soldier is on trial for planning, an act of violence against the state. he's believed to have ties to detail like we have from french television, this phone and often box the foam a soldier known as franco. a started at one of the most prestigious military schools in france. he then became an officer in the german army, the 0 to use defining attacks on high profile figures. what do you say to that city fund? believe a lot of it. it's a load of rubbish. so you'll see for yourself once the trial is of course. why do
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you think you've been accused? subject to another time. i have to go. february the 3rd 2017 franco a was arrested in the bathroom at vienna airport. he'd been trying to retrieve a concealed weapon, a german police investigation found that franco a had been looking into the anti racist on a day and tonia foundation the public prosecute to believes that franco a had been planning an attack on its president. annette sec, honda, the nobody can enter officers on this. they have registered in advance or say exactly where they want to go and so on. you comp just ring the door bell and someone will let from the door. those days are oversight in april 2017. the police arrested franco
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a again, among other items they seized 23 swastika badges. police established he was carrying these items which could potentially serve as evidence, due to the circumstance and the dangers of flight and suppression of evidence. an arrest for it was issued a franco, a was sentenced to 5 and a half years in prison for planning a serious violent offense endangering the states. the strict cod frank declaration is deputy head of a state office for the protection of the constitution in bottom, beth and back. his job is to assess the fall, right print in germany. it's a light missing data from the augustine. the sign up stock ticket for the states that we have to assume there was an abstract danger that there was still a possibility that in a worst case scenario, these groups could carry out attacks against state institutions,
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migrant and or political enemies, and then kick and me con, or what i didn't put in addition gauge not a fundraising. and then discounts even offerings. questioned if the starting point is right wing extremism. it is of course, crucial that we work with the police at an early stage to prevent any attacks. and that can be that put it's, i think, in the in fronts to both are too concerned about that possible infiltration of the police and ami they've targeted a website few would expect to have ties to the file, right? a dating website, the but it's exclusively so white people. it's called white date, the,
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at the time of filming the site over 6000 users. but then not just looking for love adding personal contact details as against our terms. it would harm our and this and expose your data to infield traders. a bizarre power allow unit, thus featuring all manner of extremist profiles, blood and soil illusions to the arian race. swastikas. another profile depicts europe under nazi rules. we create a fake account and lose a user to a date in a powers pock hidden camera records the meeting the how's it going? hi, how are you here? so you were in the army? yes. as a color that belongs to the army, the cold,
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probably taking an elite french university. that's also a military school. it's motto is full homeland science and glory. let's talk politics, silver, quiet way. the mind clearly wants to avoid crowds through the country calls itself democratic for the fact is that i have very little political influence. so that's what i want a lot, which is why it's important to me to meet people who think the same way. the young man assumes that the dating website is being monitored by the police and is afraid of being exposed police services. exchange information is the f b i fine. so it's something about a frenchman, it will pass it on and then suddenly throw on your doorstep. so we get going to the exit. let's go the walk through
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also or it is may tip this website. my to validate is spokesman for the french police union. s i c p. i would think this we're clearly seeing creeping rather gloves. ational teaching just as increasing identification with findings that do not correspond to those of from the viewers or humanity they're supposed to have to do the arguments they do not. the operator of the dating platform declines an interview request. thank you for your generous offer. however, i prefer to stay anonymous and do not see much benefit in cooperating with mainstream media. i am also not a nationalist, just pro white the just one hour later, the interview request is posted in a closed internet form. the logo of the french tv channel m 6 is put in 3 brackets,
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a well known code in the fall, right, seen the oldest villages availability, the reopen and 3 closed brackets. a symbol used in social networks to identify jews . putting m 6 in brackets means it's a jewish television to do the balances. tell me if indeed the china was seen as an agent of the zionist world conspiracies, jews who control the media, the entire economy, and the politically lead to emails on the property. he gets it. yeah, that's anti semitic. absolutely. in the meantime, we had contacted by the convicted neo nazi from alsace. he'd like to talk to us again on his terms the . i don't know you very well. i saw some of it blame folding in. then i thought
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there's no point, i just have to trust you because i insist that you don't film the surroundings not doing this. we're going to have bunker. you can films out, and nothing else seem to be finding on the bunker is hidden in a forest. the man wants to prove that he's no lone wolf, but part of the movement. he tells us about the new generation of neo nonsense motion that are strongly done, super prescriptive mind. generations to data that more learn version of this generation is more low profile. the way they look the way they act, but they're growing in number every day. they said they're smart. mason presenting the or a comb right is waiting in the old world war 2 bunker. he calls himself captain.
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almost sick often. my name is captain, this is all i'm 22. i'm from northern, i was asked enough notice i'm a national protocol of disguise myself on purpose to 3. i don't normally walk around like this. it's not the image i want to convey for this one safely. i have to remain anonymous for my 6 everything. what i mean, even when he attaches the microphone, we noticed he's carrying a gun probably so far for my part to go to the security. you never know what might happen. most people i prefer to play it safe on the face, shouldn't have seen that. it's just protection cooper. i'm a recruiter, i've made lots of young people who think like maybe some of them may people have policies. are we talking one thing leads to another, bring up the topic and start discussing, you know, these on just because my job is to bring like minded people together on a discrete, i want to show them of them as a life goes on. maybe they cute on the curriculum for, for the need. for me, the future is white by country and the whole continent. that's the way it is. will
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be moody. i don't want to be a minority. i want to be represented by my own kind. i'm a rece by people. both extremists refer to a mental with a lot of influence on social networks. he believes the race wall is coming along with a global domination of white people. just from this man as well known in the movement, i don't know him personally. he shuffles between hungry and remaining. his name is daniel converse, nano. ever heard of him. converse on a, in his mid thirty's is active in various francophone communities and has 10000 followers. photo show him giving the heil hitler salute. this video was made in 2015, one month off to the shelley at the attacks pricing's nazis before with
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running keys coming soon months, months, months. 6 let's try a different thing delivery time. let's see what she liked best. the film, so cynical through the window. the protection will end. you have the power, the military won't gone to seen. it goes forever. maybe $1.00 to $60.00 is if most police commission and my to valet knows the video one cause you know, these are kind of indication typically all protection would be taken by police protection to an additional them explicit is right. that easy to prosecute. you thief, moving down the road with this. some people put a separate bellow. canvas on a relies on provocation. in 2016, he appeared on web t v. the channel of convicted french comedian on file. right. activist. do you don't? a next to him. is holocaust denial alone so hot? no.
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it came to blows. compas on those pronouncements proved to radical. even for a holocaust denial and races such as alarm so hot. the tv breath made compass on a famous in the fall right seen in 2019, he launched a new movement light of the brave compass on our left front and moved to what he called a white country. the book arrest the remaining capital almost 35 years off to the phone of the dictator. josh high school architecture is all that remains that the communist passed in recent
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decades. the country has seen a steady exeter set. the younger generation, the percentage of foreigners in romania is just 0.3 percent. i need some videos or let me see some of that for this type of delivery. so this is a grades on people are too lazy to cook all the takeaways delivered by locals. romanian 7 most of the ordinary workers, the romanians, sometimes molto benzo ukrainian just from neighboring countries that the former does it very rarely foreign is. that's is a lot about the people here. so the population needs how much is it mainly romanians and i like that. oh, i grew up with the compass on, always willing to be found a father of 2. he wants to make a good impression here in his adult at home,
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he produces live shows and youtube videos, right wing monologues on current of fast that last several hours. the he tells these, follows the t. v. crew is visiting him and we just saw that i'm being filmed as i speak to you. one user is asking whether the journalist could jeopardize my project. one of those, i'm not insane. i leave an inconspicuous life in romania and i know how to behave sale the years for a compass on a. as in thomas, in 2016, he appeared together with a french neo nazi not really high on nazi hard line is i a french area failed and some people are online that mine use is various pseudonyms including local mo, knock and junk fraud, 88 football football in, in,
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in the video he runs about the rice and doesn't hold back with anti semitic and races tight speech. a compass on a 1000 to contradict him. tell me more than you. so you run $67.00 nationalist, a racist website is. yeah, that's right. but some of the national, i speak to a more of a race to exactly or even a white supremacist long, maybe even the supremacist. so this, the compass on a and no call, no not belong to a movement called swan veils. a dangerous group to avails, promotes the dissemination of terrorist writings while they last claims to be merely a news aggregator. the website clearly aims to spread extremist views. the 2 neo nazis of sense parted ways. going to knock move to key of where he felt safe
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from french investigators. he had no idea that war was imminent. he proposed a meeting at my don square and gave that to you is supposedly his real name. he knows the french will socrates. i'm watching him as a neat, absolutely, multi kelley. i think the whole subject will be absolutely more to before they own more. i no longer have any ties to from you, but i still have a network of comrades, especially in the police team, and they keep telling me there are a lot of people in phones getting wound up about i own and who would like to have me arrested fortunately might be on the outside, the european union will pull him up on the field and talk to you. they will as well
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. just see, i'll do all the new open. he continues to inside hatred and violence against minorities. and anyone who thinks differently, do you want to stay here longer, or should i still own kind of, i will stay in ukraine as long as i have to see for your thoughts, my life. now just an appropriate amount of that. with a few profit and racial get sort of like from june, i said, can make it any way to set up the, the problems that france has myself or we want to have here for another 20 years. i've onto connecticut from people voted with gwinnett to all of assess pool for them. yep. you'll, you'll see dr. luck of the off to the russian invasion of ukraine. he fled and returned to france that he was immediately arrested and charged with racist agitation and incitement
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to hatred. the in a letter he wrote i'm on the judicial supervision by to the court metal. i can say from the palms as a tower suspect i have no papers, bank account, phone or computer, was cancelled all these neo nazis delusional idealogues who belong to isolated extremist circles all signs of a new wave of terra. they'll go on that scene to try to procure weapons online, remains in prison. as it turns out he to has met compass on a media keeps trying to make a connection between me and logan, just because i messed him once. said he was never part of late because i'm not saying these to clean myself. if they were a connection, the police would have the know me by now the system of the to the,
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the home i always had doubts about. he's guilty to the device. so to he did was search online for most created by that and then 2 weeks later, firearms and the police. so the reacted table. okay. so to some things that i can call and he said we'd become monsters. you see uh see that, but if you really wanted to go through with it, i can damn the question. but i think he said that in cool to get to launch a sentence, keep to the point of the conference on i was canceling his wedding. he cannot complicate, condone acts of terrorism such as those committed by no going noisy in prison is seen loans that compass on a spoken to reporters about his case. he wants to talk, we speak to him from his mother's house. this call may be monitored or recorded.
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hello. hello. how are you? i'm okay and you, i'm good. cool. i'm here with the journalist waiting. ok. so you can probably guess that we didn't need to play cards. were i to kill, to wanted to blow up most. she wanted to get weapons to kill people, to shoot drug dealers. so we wanted to attack so laughter, small should anybody must consider missing something a 9 year sentence. i think is a very long sentence. i think i should have been given 7 or 8 years. but i also think i was judged democratically so i understand and accept this sentence. molly angle. nadine has expressed remotes. violence is a personal choice which i did. i did because i wanted to give it to
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a copy. but i say to anyone who wants to become a terrorist, don't do it. by doing that, the your mother visits you in prison and starts crying task. when you regret everything you've ever done a good bye bye logo. new. go on to z. pains he is reformed. easy to be believed, or was he still pose a danger off that he's released from prison? how many of it is becoming radicalized in germany alone, domestic intelligence puts the number of violent fall right extremist, at 14000 patriot of everything foreign of democracy and freedom. those is a major threat to western society, the
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