According to the police, the world of ideas of the prisoners consists of an extreme right-wing ideology called acceleratorism, which is violent in nature.
Satakunnan the district court arrested five men in Fabric on suspicion of terrorist offenses on Friday.
At a briefing on the background of the case, a security police specialist investigator Eero Pietilä said that the world of ideas held by detainees consisted essentially of an extreme right-wing ideology called acceleration.
At the heart of this trend is National Socialism and the goal of achieving a society in line with it. The means are violent and are intended to exacerbate confrontations within society, for example through terrorist attacks.
Pietilä describes accelerationism as a very extreme but marginal ideology.
However, acceleration did not appear on the field of the Finnish far right due to the suspicions of terrorism revealed on Friday.
Criminal Consul Toni Sjöblom (left) and Security Police Special Investigator Eero Pietilä at a press conference on 3 December.
Helsinki a researcher familiar with the far right of the university Daniel Sallamaa Accelerationism has increased its visibility in the online environments and social media used by Finns over the past couple of years.
“I emphasize that it is still marginal among the far right, but it has become more and more visible,” says Sallamaa.
The doctor of the University of Jyväskylä also has the same lines Tommi Kotonen, who has studied the far right.
Doctor of the University of Jyväskylä Tommi Kotonen
The idea of exacerbating the confrontations of society is not new, and there are already signs of this in some writings of the 19th century.
The roots of current accelerationism are in the United States. American neo-Nazi James Masonin The Atomwaffen Division, built around the writings of the 1990s, can be considered the most prominent proponent of accelerationism.
The sign behind the symbol with the network’s radioactivity symbol also flashed in a slide show seen at Friday’s press conference. Admittedly, this time the logo was an angry dog instead of a radioactivity symbol.
Accelerative groups often use a badge, often backed by a notched shield in the upper right corner. Screenshot of the slideshow at a police briefing on December 3rd.
According to the researchers, the notched shield in the upper right corner has been seen as the background for the logos of several accelerating neo-Nazi groups.
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Over the past couple of years, acceleration has increased its visibility in the online environments and social media used by Finns.
Accelerationism at the ideological core, like many other far-right groups, is National Socialism.
According to Kotonen, this is a strategy rather than one’s own actual idea, because the desired end result is the same: a society according to one’s own ideology.
“Their revolutionary goals can only be furthered by exacerbating internal confrontations in society, for example through sabotage or terror,” says Kotonen.
It is the violence of accelerationism that makes it dangerous. According to the University of Helsinki in Sallamaa, this is a more nihilistic trend than “traditional National Socialism”.
Its representatives believe that the existing society must be completely torn down before new can be built on its smoky ruins.
“For example, they have also considered the attacks on their own reference group, the Caucasian indigenous population, to be justified if they are used to incite more chaos and accelerate the collapse of society,” says Sallamaa.
In Finland the accelerationist activity observed so far has been the dissemination of texts and visual materials in support of ideology on the Internet.
Because the activities are largely focused on anonymous discussion boards and encrypted platforms, it is difficult to assess the extent of thinking. As has been said, scholars see it as a far-right margin, but its visibility has increased.
Elsewhere in the world, terrorist attacks and murders have taken place in the name of the idea.
According to Sallamaa, the culture formed around the movement is extremely visual in nature. Several groups have succeeded in creating a distinctive style in the propaganda they produce.
“The material is violent in the sense that the posters can encourage, for example, an attack on an ideological enemy or glorify previous acts of terrorism and terrorists,” says Sallamaa.
Correction 4.12. at 5:17 pm: The captions incorrectly stated that the December 3 press conference was December 2.
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