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Internet the platform to spread hate

and officers within MI5 were monitoring the investigation in case of any links to the UK.

A senior Whitehall source said: “So far there is no indication that this individual is linked to any British far-right groups or has been recently to the UK. “But as ever the situasouth tion in Germany is being monitored and if there are any links they will be thoroughly investigated to ensure the risk to Brits is minimised.”

A former British intelligence officer said: “Our intelligence agencies have extremely good relationships with their German equivalents and will be talking to them. If the German investigators find a link to the UK they will feed it to the British investigators.”

In his online rant Rathjen, who was

RIGHT-WING extremism has been rising for 15 years across Europe, spurred on by hate messages on social media and vile anti-islamic sentiment.

Attacks by al-qaeda linked groups and Islamic State have wrongly fed into the far-right narrative that the West is threatened by immigration and by said to have returned to his home town of Hanau last year after losing his job in Munich, also bizarrely claimed he could not sleep with women because he was being watched by the government.

He also boasted of a strategy that he said would have ended the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq within 10 years, and shared his plan to help Germany win the football World Cup.

His rant also talked of underground

Islam itself. This hate-filled message has been churned out at rallies of extremist groups. Far-right politics has existed in the UK since the 1930s facilities in the US where children are mistreated and killed, urging Americans to “wake up and fight” this.

Rathjen had a gun licence and belonged to a gun club, where fellow member Claus Schmidt said he noticed “not a hint of racism or hatred towards foreigners” in him.

Carrying a Glock 17 9mm, Rathjen attacked the Midnight shisha bar and a neighbouring cafe in central Hanau at about 10pm on Wednesday, before

among organisations that are fascist, anti-semitic or both – but never before have they been able so quickly and broadly to broadcast their evil.

Now, with the advent of social media, and latterly the dark web, these groups can spread their twisted messages, they hope, without fear of

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