Jack Reed is the youngest person to be convicted of planning a Nazi terror attack in Britain. Collage
Those who know him have defined him as a studious, reserved teenager, always with a warm smile. But behind that “angelic” aspect. Jack Reed it hid a left side. His sympathy for the Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler and other fascists led him to become the youngest person to be convicted of planning a terrorist attack In England.
It’s hard to connect Reed’s boyish face with the cold, calculating teenager whose name surfaced just a few months ago. It was when, at the age of 18, an attempt to keep it secret was rejected
At a young age he has already accumulated a generous neo-Nazi propaganda library. And at 16 he was sentenced for trying making explosives in an attempt to start a “race war” in his hometown of Durham, located in the north-east of the country.
Reed and his sinister website. He tried to make explosives for a race war.
According to the court handling his case in the UK, another dark chapter has also emerged: faced separate sex charges on minorsfor which he was granted an additional 18 months.
He is one of the few teenagers convicted of terrorist crimes linked to neo-Nazi extremist groups in the past two years, underline the British newspapers, which have reported his case on their web portals and print pages.
And despite the fact that many specialists have recently begun to link the isolation due to the coronavirus pandemic with fall into the “claws” of radicalizationReed’s situation had been going on for a long time.
Higher intelligence, dangerous ideals
Reed grew up in a beautiful $ 700,000 home and attended the Durham Johnston Comprehensive, one of the top 100 state schools in England.
Reed attended Durham Johnston Comprehensive, one of the top 100 state schools in England.
In some photographs that circulated after his case became popular, the teenager can be seen enjoying a beach holiday with his family.
His surveyor’s father and mother were initially concerned that their son would be “tagged” later show trends on the autism spectrumas is clear from the medical reports before the sentencing.
Looking for extremist material since the age of 12, the teenager was referred to a government program to prevent radicalization two years later.
Jack Reed with his parents (with their pixelated faces), on a day at the beach with the family.
From Adolf Hitler to Ian Smith and Oswald Mosley
Jack spent most of his free time “locked in a dark room with his laptop”. For example, I used a portrait of the white leader of Rhodesia in the 1970s, Ian Smithlike your Facebook profile.
He had also created a Twitter profile called “Mosley was right”, in reference to the British fascist leader of the 1930s. Osvaldo Mosleyexpands the British newspaper.
He also claimed in a publication that Adolf Hitler started World War II protect the life of the Germans and called Winston Churchill a “warrior”. Furthermore, in his own words, he said that National Socialism “promotes Christian order and values”.
The teenager wrote that Adolf Hitler started World War II to protect the life of the Germans.
Police arrested him in 2019 on his way to school. In his pocket they found a chilling note: “Killing is probably easier than your paranoid mind thinks. You just aren’t used to it. Most of them were caught because they were careless.”.
An inevitable race war
The English teenager wrote his own manifesto in which he bragged “the inevitable race war” and threatened local synagogues. It was titled “Handbook for Practical and Sense Guerrilla Warfare Against the Kike System in the Durham City Area, Sieg Heil.”
When they started investigating his computer and cell phone, they discovered research firearms, explosives, knives and “lone wolf” attacks..
Head of the Union of British Fascists Oswald Mosley and his honor guard.
Among his “role models” were notorious murderers and terrorists: Oklahoma Timothy McVeighthe Norwegian far-right mass criminal Anders Brevik and the infamous Columbine High School shooters Eric Harris Y Dylan Klebold.
The teenager has investigated the production of poisonous explosives and toxins and has amassed a highly alarming library of literature, qualified by an expert as “more extreme than anything I’ve ever seen”.
Phrase
In November 2019, Reed, then 16, was found by Manchester Crown Court guilty of six offensesincluding the preparation of terrorist acts and the dissemination of a terrorist publication.
Thus, the extremist received a sentence despite his young age: the judge ordered his imprisonment six years and eight months.
Part of the terrorist attack plan prepared by Jack Reed in his manifesto.
A sentence from Judge David Stockdale QC about the creepy boy hung in the air. And it generates alarm in those who already have a certain fundamentalist profile in mind.
The magistrate simply said of the teenager planning an attack: “It’s about a very intelligent, cultured, quick and articulate young man“.
Source: Clarin