Finland (AWD Finland)Edit
Atomwaffen Division Finland "Siitoin Squadron" (AWDSS) was formed after the ban of the
Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM) in 2019, following members of the underground group embracing
accelerationism and occultism.
[171] The AWDSS was announced on September 15, 2021 with footage of members holding assault rifles, on the anniversary of the adoption of the
Swastika flag and the
Nuremberg laws in Germany, although the group had been active long before that and a few of their members were exposed previously by antifascist activists.
[172][173] The former NRM accelerationists had been active temporarily as "Kansallissosialistinuoret" (
National Socialist Youth) prior to the formation of the AWDSS.
[174][175] AWDSS also maintains particularly close relations with the Feuerkrieg Division in neighboring Estonia.
[172] According to an investigation by
Yleisradio, two thirds of the known members who were previously involved with NRM or
Soldiers of Odin have a conviction for a violent crime, and multiple have been convicted of murder.
[176][177][178] AWDSS adheres to the ideology of
esoteric Hitlerism and O9A satanism, reveres
Charles Manson,
David Myatt and
James Mason and is named after
Pekka Siitoin, a prominent neo-nazi, occultist and terrorist in Finland.
[172] In their private chats Finnish Atomwaffen members talk about raping political enemies and publish videos of firearms training.
[179]
AWDSS is connected to and shares membership with
Finnish O9A nexions. In August 28, 2021, a
Tampere nexion member Tero Pekkanen was detained by the Finnish police and sent to psychiatric evaluation for threatening to rape his neighbors' children and kill them.
[173] Finnish MP
Vilhelm Junnila quoted a newspaper article about Atomwaffen that the nationally active group should be added to the list of proscribed organisations.
[180] In September 2021,
Save the Children foundation warned that extreme movements like Atomwaffen and O9A were grooming and recruiting children in Finland.
[181][182] Five Finns were previously arrested for sexually abusing multiple children, and according to the police the activities involved "nazism and satanism" and consumption of
methamphetamine.
[183] On September 25, 2021, Atomwaffen members assaulted antifascist counterdemonstrators to a nazi demonstration in
Helsinki and were arrested by the police at the scene.
[184] Atomwaffen and Finnish lodge of the
Black Order also formed a border patrol militia in co-operation, recruiting former
military police. According to
Seura magazine, some members had previously served in the Azov Battalion.
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