The group whose member planned the attack in Lithuania: even seeking to involve children

The Feuerkrieg Division, the so-called German “war fire division”, has been present in all the Baltic States since October 2018. The group is believed to have originally been founded in Estonia and is a branch of the neo-Nazi international terrorist group Atomwaffen Division.

The Atomwaffen Division is responsible for assassinations, terrorist attacks and other crimes, in addition to inciting anti-Semitic hatred, organizing homophobic actions and trying to alter the current regime. The Feuerkrieg Division is no exception.

A branch of the neo-Nazi group

The Atomwaffen Division was founded in 2015 in the United States, the Southern States and spread throughout the world, mainly in the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany and other countries, including the Baltic countries, where the Feuerkrieg Division became better known .

She became famous in the Baltic countries after making threats against Belgian MEP Guy Verhofstadt and YouTube CEO Susan Wojocicki.

The Feuerkrieg Division deliberately avoids regular social media and uses encrypted communication channels, with members hiding their faces under masks or obscuring their faces in photos.

However, in his propaganda posts on the Internet, he does not hide his admiration and support for far-right terrorists. Timothy McVeigh, who organized the massacre in the United States, Robert Bowers, who organized the massacre at the Pittsburgh Mosque in 2018, and Brenton Harrison Tarrant, who angered five dozen people in the mosque and boasted that he had visited the Baltic before.

In Estonia, Latvia, and finally Lithuania, in recent years, individual neo-Nazis have also become increasingly bold in public, with swarms of swastikas or inscriptions glorifying Adolf Hitler appearing in public, and supporters of the Division Feuerkrieg made no secret of his attacks seeking attention. The attempt to carry out the attack itself is also more reminiscent of a threat than a serious act of terrorism.

For example, a case has been referred to a court in which a person is accused of trying to damage foreign property on a large scale, intimidating the public, endangering the lives of many people and causing serious harm to financial companies that operate in Lithuania by carrying out a planned terrorist act.

However, an investigation of the explosive revealed that the makeshift explosive device was made from 6 kg of explosive material, wires, a clock mechanism, and other items necessary to detonate the explosive, and its explosive power would be equivalent to only 2.5 kg of trotile.

It is not a very high-powered explosive, although at a distance of several meters, depending on how many people were at the epicenter of the explosion, there could be casualties and the damage caused by an explosion of such power could be tragic for more people.

Estonia was led by a 13 year old boy.

The planned terrorist attack mentioned by the police was not the only attempt by the Feuerkrieg Division to organize something similar in the Baltic States. In fact, this is a repetitive and identical test after
after a similar bombing was attempted in Estonia.

An Estonian intelligence operation in the country was unveiled in April, which was halted in January to prevent further bombardment. In Estonia, as in Lithuania, there has been an increase in the use of swastikas in recent years to pollute public places, unlike in Lithuania, where false news spread about devastated Jewish cemeteries, there was a real case in Estonia where swastikas were neo-nazis. Estonian intelligence services have already expressed concern about the increasing number of attacks and have launched a serious investigation. The results were surprising.

It turned out that the head of the Estonian Feuerkrieg Division turned 13: he was not the real leader due to the movement’s own provisions for not having a central government structure, but there was one of the leaders on the Internet who incited hatred and tried to cause a terrorist attack.

The story of 22-year-old Artur Aispurs was heard in neighboring Latvia in January: He was accused of trying to mount a terror attack in Helsinki and killing New Year’s Muslims. During a search of his home, evidence was found linked to an extensive neo-Nazi network.

However, the biggest concern in Estonia was that neo-Nazis were associated with the country’s parliamentary member of the populist Estonian Conservative People’s Party (EKRE), Ruuben Kaalep, who was associated with British neo-Nazis and a British neo-Nazi leader. A 16-year-old boy was arrested in the UK in September last year for planning mass shootings and arson. He introduced himself as a member of the Feuerkrieg Division.

Kaalep himself has posed with children at shooting ranges, where members of the youth organization Sinine Äratus (Blue Awakening) have received not only conflicting public reactions, but also the repeated attention of Estonian intelligence: he, as a young man, was interested in Estonian intelligence later. when he organized a provocative event.