Over the second weekend of November, far-right extremists have planned two separate evening concerts. Acts that explicitly promote racism, antisemitism and violence, and some who are linked to international neo-Nazi networks banned in several countries, will take the stage at an undisclosed location.
These concerts, titled “European Brotherhood” (Európai Testvériség) and “Hands Across the Sea,” respectively, will feature bands from Hungary, Greece, Poland and the United States.
In-person events are crucial to the neo-Nazi scene and related subcultures: the European Union (EU) law enforcement agency, Europol, noted they “place high value on physical meetings and group activities” in a report earlier this year.
Nicolas Potter, a researcher at the Amadeu Antonio Foundation, a German NGO which works to combat racism and far-right extremism, warned EU policymakers in an address to the Council of Europe earlier this year that far-right extremist events, including concerts, “serve as spaces of radicalisation, recruitment and fundraising.”
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Acts that explicitly promote racism, antisemitism and violence, and some who are linked to international neo-Nazi networks banned in several countries, will take the stage at an undisclosed location.
As Bellingcat has noted in our previous investigations on ‘White Boy Summer’ in Finland and ‘European Fight Night’ in Hungary, the Hammerskins have been described as “the most violent and best-organised neo-Nazi skinhead group in the United States.”
In 2020, one of the bands which Condor is a member of — and one slated to perform in Budapest — released an album featuring a photo of American neo-Nazi Robert Jay Mathews emblazoned on the packaging art, with the word “Sacrifice” underneath.
A song, titled “Day of the Rope,” on this same release is a reference to The Turner Diaries, the 1978 white supremacist novel that has inspired acts of far-right extremist violence, including the 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing that killed 168 people.
The song, as well as others on the album, contains racist and antisemitic language and explicit calls to violence, including the threats “got you in our scope” directed at Jews and “journalist scum won’t be spared the garrote.”
One of the Polish bands’ releases features songs with titles like “Rahowa” — an acronym for ‘racial holy war’, a white supremacist slogan — and “Crew 28”, a reference to Blood & Honour.
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The title is misleading as the event will be hosted by Nordic Sun Records, not “Hungary”.
According to the article the Budapest police stated that they will monitor the concert and step in if try to start anything.