Pavlo Lapshyn was jailed for a minimum of 40 years in 2013 after mounting his campaign of terror across the West Midlands.
And today, West Midlands Police counter-terror officers released new images of him carrying out practice explosions in the Ukraine. The footage was found on his laptop and show him carrying out a range of test blasts in forests.
The new images were released today as part of a West Midlands Police drive to tweet live from its counter-terror offices.
Far-right groups, inspired by their European counterparts, remain on the fringes but show signs of steady growth. We have to remain vigilant, argues Antony Loewenstein.
The Collectif contre l’Islamophobie en France reports that the Islamic Cultural Centre at Meximieux in the Rhône-Alpes region of eastern France has been defaced by fascists.
A swastika and a Celtic cross were sprayed on the front of the building.
The CCIF notes that this is the fifth desecration of the Meximieux mosque since 2012.
Le Progrès adds that over recent days a number of such far-right symbols have also appeared in l’Ain, Belley, Châtillon-la-Palud and Pérouges.
The Comité 15 Mars et Libertés reports that a mosque in Pont-de-Beauvois, in Isère in eastern France, has been targeted in a graffiti attack by fascists.
Swastikas were sprayed on the wall, along with the slogans “Death to Algeria”, “Fuck the Arabs” and “Vive la France”.
Via the Collectif contre l’Islamophobie en France.
See also “Tags injurieux et croix gammées sur la mosquée de Pont-de-Beauvoisin en Isère”, France 3, 5 May 2014
A teenage woman and a man have been found guilty of throwing bacon into Central Mosque and wrapping it round the door handles.
Chelsea Lambie, 18, from Paisley, and 38-year-old Douglas Cruikshank from Galashiels carried out the early morning attack in January last year.
Cruikshank originally denied the charge, but changed his plea after the Crown dropped its claim that the offence was racially aggravated.
A jury took just over an hour to return a majority verdict of guilty on Lambie. She was found guilty of behaving in a racially aggravated threatening or abusive manner likely to cause fear and alarm.
A series of text messages were read out to a jury at the trial of two people accused of throwing bacon into the Central Mosque. Detective Sergeant Raymond Gray said the messages were from a Blackberry mobile phone found in the possession of 28-year-old Chelsea Lambie, from Paisley.
One message sent from the phone at 2.58am on January 31 last year read “Going to invade a mosque, because we go where we want”, the court heard. After receiving a text asking “What you do last night?”, the jury was told that a reply was sent from the phone reading: “Went to the mosque in Edinburgh and wrapped bacon round the door handles and opened the door and threw it in ha ha ha.”
A Nazi sympathiser who plotted to blow up mosques and Islamic centres has been jailed for 10 years.
Ian Forman, 42, developed a homemade bomb and researched religious venues in Merseyside, Kingston Crown Court heard.
Forman, of Shavington Avenue, Oxton, Birkenhead, was detained after work colleagues found him researching chemicals and explosives on the web. The explosive was discovered during a police raid, along with a replica Nazi uniform and bomb plans.
Officers said seized computers showed evidence of internet research into a number of mosques in Merseyside, including Penny Lane Mosque, Liverpool and Wirral Cultural Centre, Birkenhead. The court also heard Forman had video clips of himself experimenting with explosives and a homemade anti-Islam video.
Dutch Jewish groups have spoken out against Geert Wilders, leader of the anti-immigration Party for Freedom, after he told supporters that he would reduce the number of Moroccans in the country, the JTA has reported.
Mr Wilders asked his supporters at a post-election celebration in March whether they wanted “fewer or more Moroccans”. To their chants of “fewer”, he said that he would “take care of it”.
Although Mr Wilder’s strident support for Israel and his anti-Islamist stance has made him popular among Jews at home and abroad, Dutch Jewish umbrella group, the CJO, released a statement saying they were horrified by his comments about Moroccans.
The Dutch Jewish weekly NIW last month claimed that, “Dutch Jewry is fed up with Geert Wilders.” Jewish groups in Holland were known to be deeply uncomfortable with Mr Wilders’s decision to forge an alliance in the European Parliament with the National Front, the French far-right party led by Marine Le Pen.
Het Nieuwsblad reports that Vlaams Belang has held a demonstration in Temse in East Flanders.
Displaying a banner featuring its favourite slogan, “Freedom or Islam”, the Belgian far-right party was protesting against a proposal to convert a disused former police station into a mosque for the local Moroccan community.
Vlaams Belang leader Filip Dewinter joined the protest and called for a freeze on the opening of any new mosques.
Members of the British National Party are planning to demonstrate at the site of a former church which pre-application plans suggested could house a new mosque.
Dacorum Borough Council has confirmed no formal applications for the Muslim house of worship on the former Nash Mills Methodist Church site off Barnacres Road have been submitted. But the BNP’s secretary for the eastern region Chris Livingstone has announced the protest will be taking place on Saturday, May 10.
A spokesman for the council said no applications are even expected to be submitted at this time.