The BBC has confronted a neo-Nazi in Finland who shared online instructions on how to commit arson with UK rioters during the summer.
The 20-year-old was an administrator in the Southport Wake Up group on the Telegram messaging app, where he was known as “Mr AG”. He posted the arson manual, which was pinned to the top of the group chat.
In late July and early August, the group was key in helping to organise and provoke protests that turned to violence in England and Northern Ireland.
We tracked Mr AG - whose real name is Charles-Emmanuel Mikko Rasanen - to an apartment on the outskirts of the Finnish capital, Helsinki.
It was from here, more than 1,000 miles away from Southport, that the neo-Nazi took a prominent online role during the UK riots.
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“What we have here is a case of a young man sitting behind his keyboard in a different country starting racist violence in Britain,” they say. “It exposes the transnational nature of the far-right in the world today.”
I’m assuming that’s the reporter calling to confront the man about his actions. I googled the guys name and it popped up with a picture of a white guy.
I thought the same initially but if my above theory is correct, they made a terrible choice for the article photo.
I searched for the name as well, and the only white dude in their twenties that showed up was Mikko Räsänen, a handball player.
Edit: But I found this article: https://redflare.info/articles/mrag-mixed-race-finnish-neo-nazi-behind-uks-race-riots/
I dunno, based on the snippet below I assumed that’s a shot of him calling for the cops to save him from the meany journalists trying to stifle his freeze peach
Before we left him, he also accused the BBC of harassment and rang the police.
It’s him in the picture. Above commentor is wrong
https://redflare.info/articles/mrag-mixed-race-finnish-neo-nazi-behind-uks-race-riots/
