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Posted By admin on April 18, 2020

A view of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

JNS.org A 13-year-old boy in Estonia was a key figure in an international neo-Nazi group that has been linked to plots to attack a Las Vegas synagogue and detonate a car bomb at a major US news network, the Associated Pressreported.

The boy, who called himself Commander online, was a leader of Feuerkrieg Division, though severed ties with the neo-Nazi group after authorities in Estonia confronted him earlier this year, according to police and an Estonian newspaper report.

Harrys Puusepp, a spokesperson for the Estonian Internal Security Service, told theAPthat police intervened in early January because of a suspicion of danger and suspended this persons activities in Feuerkrieg Division.

As the case dealt with a child under the age of 14, this person cannot be prosecuted under the criminal law and instead other legal methods must be used to eliminate the risk. Cooperation between several authorities, and especially parents, is important to steer a child away from violent extremism, said Puusepp.

April 17, 2020 2:04 pm

While the spokesperson did not explicitly identify the child as a group leader, leaked archives of online chats by Feuerkrieg Division members show that Commander referred to himself as the founder of the group and hinted to being from Saaremaa, Estonias largest island.

A report published last week by the Estonian newspaperEesti Ekspresssaid Estonian security officials investigated a case involving a 13-year-old boy who allegedly was running Feuerkrieg Division operations out of a small town in Estonia. According to the newspaper the group has a decentralized structure, and while the boy cannot be considered Feuerkrieg Divisions leader, he was certainly one of its main figures.

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Estonian Teen 'Commander' of Global Neo-Nazi Group Behind Threats to US Synagogue - Algemeiner

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