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Martin Sellner: The new face of the far right in Europe

In his T-shirt, skinny jeans and sharply styled haircut, Martin Sellner is the European far right’s newest poster boy. The group he leads in Austria has attracted huge publicity, reported BBC News. Sellner insists that his movement is non-racist and non-violent.

In April 2016, hundreds of people sat inside the University of Vienna’s theatre watching The Suppliants, a play performed by asylum-seekers from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. And then the stage invasion began.

Members of a far-right group called Generation Identity (GI) rushed in, unfurling a banner calling the audience hypocrites and throwing fake blood over some of them. The performers screamed, fearing they were under attack. There were scuffles as some in the audience began shouting “Nazis raus” or “Nazis out” and tried to eject the protesters.

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