The violent right-wing extremist milieu in the United States and Europe has developed a distinctly transnational character in its activities and therefore presents an increasing security threat on both sides of the Atlantic.
Three years ago, Darren Osbourne drove a van into a crowd of worshippers outside The Finsbury Park Mosque, killing one and wounding ten people. Osbourne was not a devout ideologue. He had become radicalized in less than a month through the rapid...
Following the shooting in Hanau, Germany, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) warns against underestimating the threat posed by right-wing extremism.
CEP is providing resources on extremism and counter-extremism in Canada on the anniversary of the January 29 attack at the Quebec Islamic Cultural Center in Quebec City. Right-wing extremist Alexandre Bissonnette is accused of carrying out the attack...
On 27 December 2025, multiple reports claimed that Denis Kapustin, a.k.a. Denis Nikitin or White Rex, had been killed in action in Ukraine. Kapustin is the commander of the Russian Volunteer Corps (RVC), which fights on Ukraine’s side against Russia...
CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed following the arrest of a right-wing extremist in Germany who allegedly planned to kill German politicians on the dark net.
CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed about the arrest of a right-wing extremist in Germany accused of planning to kill German politicians on the dark net.
Hans Jakob Schindler (Senior Director of the Counter Extremism Project) on the arrest of a suspected right-wing extremist from the Reich Citizens' Movement milieu
At first glance, such groups give the impression that they organize primarily through social networks, says Alexander Ritzmann, head of the right-wing extremism department at the Counter Extremism Project and FDP interior affairs expert until 2006. But that is often not the case.
CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed about the arrest of a right-wing extremist terror cell in Germany.
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