Far right thugs plotting more attacks on refugee hotels using shady Russian social media channels on Telegram app
RIOTERS are plotting more attacks on refugee hotels through shady Russian social media channels.
The Sun found yobs using anonymous accounts on the Telegram app to distribute plans to 100,000 would-be looters.
Their tactics come as Tesla boss Elon Musk sparked anger by claiming a British civil war is “inevitable”.
A list of 39 potential targets, including asylum-seeker hotels like the one stormed by rioters in Rotherham on Sunday, was circulated yesterday morning.
Other “hits” have been organised on solicitor firms that take on asylum seeker cases.
We found hate peddled in a dozen extreme chats.
Group leaders even shared guides on how to avoid arrest, with tips like: “Carry toothpaste — it can lower the effects of tear gas.”
Another told would-be rioters: “Stay tactical, stay agile, brothers”.
In one chat, its 12,000 members discussed plans to target mosques with firebombs.
An activist replied: “No face, no case. Cover the ink.”
“Active Club” members shared photos of themselves, with blurred faces, training for mass disorder in fitness sessions.
On another chat, with 36,000 followers, one member branded Adolf Hitler “the only politician since Roman times to truly care for his people”.
Our reporters also found another channel, with 6,000 subscribers, which branded itself using Nazi-style SS fonts.
Many messages included racial slurs and lies about innocent Muslims.
Ex-defence minister Alec Shelbrooke praised our probe and blasted: “The hard-right has a history of trying to hide where it is, so it can incite violence with no comeback on itself. We have to call that out for what it is and not look for excuses.
“We all recognised the threat of China through TikTok and that a lot of disinformation and hatred has been spread online through Russian bots.
“So if Telegram can’t clamp down on thi they should be banned from this country.” Telegram was asked to comment.
Meanwhile, Sky News reporter Becky Johnson was forced off air in Birmingham yesterday when a masked protester on an e-bike, shouted: “Yo, Free Palestine, f*** the EDL.”
Protests broke out in Burton, Staffs.
And Manchester mayor Andy Burnham urged counter-protesters to “think twice” about confronting rioters.
Australia, Malaysia, Nigeria, and Indonesia urged citizens against visiting Britain.