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Far right thugs plotting more attacks on refugee hotels using shady Russian social media channels on Telegram app
Other 'hits' have been organised on solicitor firms that take on asylum seeker cases
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 recruits.
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Their tactics emerged as Twitter/X boss Elon Musk sparked anger by claiming British civil war was “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.
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Group leaders shared guides on how to avoid arrest, with tips such as: “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.”
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Active Club England members shared photos of themselves, with blurred faces, training for mass disorder in fitness sessions, pictured right.
On another chat, with 36,000 followers, one member branded Adolf Hitler “the only politician since Roman times to truly care for his people”.
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Ex-defence minister Alec Shelbrooke praised our investigation and raged: “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 that a lot of disinformation and hatred has been spread online through Russian bots. So if Telegram can’t clamp down on this they should be banned from this country.”
Telegram was asked to comment.
Meanwhile PM Sir Keir Starmer slapped down Musk’s “civil war” claim.
A No 10 spokesman said there was “no justification” for the comments made on X/Twitter on Sunday.
The spat intensified later with Musk telling Sir Keir he should be concerned “about all communities” — after the PM spoke about the impact of the UK riots on Muslims.
Smaller protests broke out in Birmingham and Burton, Staffs, yesterday.
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Manchester mayor Andy Burnham urged counter-protesters to think twice about confronting rioters.
Australia, Malaysia, Nigeria and Indonesia urged citizens against visiting Britain amid the disorder.
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