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An American neo-Nazi group which is led from Russia is to be banned as a terrorist organisation, the house Secretary has said.
Priti Patel condemned “evil supremacist groups, who target vulnerable people across the world”.
The Base are going to be the fifth extreme right-wing group to be proscribed within the UK under anti-terror laws.
Last year BBC Panorama exposed the organisation’s recruitments efforts within the UK.
A BBC investigation also exposed the group’s American founder Rinaldo Nazzaro and revealed how he was directing the bottom from his St Petersburg home.
The Base, formed in 2018, seeks to make terrorist cells within the US and other countries in an effort to determine fascist, white ethno-states through a “race war”.
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Members have engaged in training with weapons and explosives. Several men linked to the group are being prosecuted within the US for offences including conspiracy to murder.
The group has been heavily disrupted, although leading figures like Nazzaro remain active.
A formal ban within the UK, which can inherit force in the week if approved by MPs, will make membership or support for the A terrorism offence with a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison.
The Home Office said the group solidarity and ideologies with Atomwaffen Division, and its alias Nazi Order, which was banned earlier this year.
The other right-wing extremist groups proscribed as terror organisations are National Action and Sonnenkrieg Division – both created within the UK – also as Feuerkrieg Division, founded in Estonia.
The Panorama investigation into the bottom exposed how Nazzaro and other men interviewed and groomed young recruits from Britain and other countries.
The investigation showed how another leading group member, Matthew Baccari, ran a notorious neo-Nazi online forum linked to multiple terrorism prosecutions in UK courts.
Nazzaro, who wont to work for the FBI and therefore the Pentagon, moved to Russia round the time he created the bottom .
In November a feature-length interview with Nazzaro was broadcast on Russian state television.
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