NEO - NAZIS NAME KID ADOLF
They wanted to wage white holy war, court told
A COUPLE accused of being members of a neo-Nazi terrorist group named their baby after Adolf Hitler, a court heard yesterday.
Claudia Patatas, 38, right, and 22-year-old Adam Thomas are alleged to have plotted a “white holy war” as part of banned
National Action.
A COUPLE accused of being members of a neo-Nazi terrorist group named their baby after Adolf Hitler, a court heard yesterday.
Claudia Patatas, 38, and Adam Thomas, 22, are said to have plotted a “white holy war” as part of banned National Action.
They gave their son, born in 2017, the name Adolf as a tribute to the German dictator, Birmingham Crown Court heard.
Barnaby Jameson, prosecuting, said: “The couple have a small male child. The child’s full name cannot be given for legal reasons.
“However, the Crown can tell you that one of his middle names was Adolf.
“Given that the child was born almost a year after National Action was banned, you may think the use of the name Adolf – even as a middle name – was of significance.”
The jury was shown a picture of a “fanatical Nazi” posing with the tot holding a swastika flag and making a Hitler salute.
National Action was banned in December 2016 following the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox.
Members celebrated her brutal death at the hands of killer Thomas Mair, the
court heard. The couple, from Banbury, Oxon, are charged with membership of the group along with Daniel Bogunovic, 27, of Leicester.
They face up to 10 years in prison if found guilty.
Thomas is also charged with possessing bomb-making manual the Anarchist’s Cookbook.
The group carried out a “white holy war” to uphold white supremacist values around the country living “in a world of swastikas and the burning crosses of the Ku Klux Klan”, the court heard.
Bogunovic and Thomas collected machetes, the court heard.
Other members stockpiled shotguns, assault rifles, knives, ice-picks, crossbows and long bows.
Mr Jameson said they had hatred for “blacks, Jews, Asians, gays, communists and feminists”, thinking them “sub-human”.
They also had particular venom for “female Labour MPs sympathetic to migrants”.
Jurors were told of the defendants’ associations with “other prominent National Action figures”.
Patatas, pictured left, Thomas and Bogunovic deny the charges.
The trial is expected to last four weeks.