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Neo-Nazi who planned mass gun attack convicted after MI5 undercover sting
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Senior police officer warns of young people being drawn into violent extremism as Alfie Coleman found guilty More and more young people are being drawn into the world of violent extremism, a senior police officer has warned after a young neo-Nazi caught in an undercover MI5 sting was convicted of planning a mass gun attack.Alfie Coleman, a former supermarket worker from Great Notley in Essex, compiled a hate-list of colleagues and customers he branded with racial slurs or as “race traitors”. He wrote a “manifesto” in a diary and identified potential targets, including the “lord mayor of London” and a mosque. Continue reading...
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