National Socialist Network: Top cop warns WA neo-nazi group ‘we know who you are, we know where you live’

The State’s top cop has warned members of a neo-nazi group “we know who they are” and “we know where they live” after vowing his officers would not tolerate any public displays of “disgusting” white supremacy in WA. It comes as two West Australians — Mason James Robbins, 30, and James Allan Holliday, 25 — faced Adelaide Magistrates Court on Tuesday after allegedly using a nazi symbol during a neo-nazi rally. Mr Robbins and Mr Holliday are among 16 people — including a 16-year-old boy — charged after travelling from around the country to hijack Australia Day celebrations in Adelaide on Sunday. A third WA man, aged 55, was also charged with possessing a disguise. Police allege all three men were members of the neo-nazi group, the Nationalist Socialist Network. A police prosecutor told Adelaide Magistrates Court on Tuesday that at 11am on Sunday, 40 NSN members dressed in black assembled at the South Australian War Memorial. “The National Socialist Network is a right-wing extremist group with national socialist ideology,” the police prosecutor said. “The group aims at preparing for a race war which it believes will usher in a white separatist ethno state.” WA Police Commissioner Col Blanch said the Australia Day rally was “totally unacceptable” and that WA Police had “plenty of laws to deal with” similar scenes in this State “immediately”. “I think we all watched the footage from Adelaide yesterday, with 30-odd blokes wearing black and making racist chants,” he told 6PR on Tuesday. “That is totally unacceptable, and I can say, as the Commissioner, I’ve already given instructions to my workforce, if you that starting to form up, then we’ve got plenty of laws to deal with that immediately. “We will take action before they form up and start chanting down the street. I do not want to see that in WA and I’ve asked our officers to do everything they can to prevent it. “I actually don’t like seeing those marches where the police are walking next to them. So we’re going to stop it immediately. I’ve given my officers instructions — shut it down straight away.” Mr Blanch said the State Security Investigation Group knew the identities of those purporting to be white supremacists and were “tracking them”. “We know who they are, we know where they live, and we know their presence online,” he said. Mr Blanch added police would be speaking to the trio charged over the Adelaide march and “giving them a bit of an ultimatum about their behaviour”. “They won’t be expanding; if we need to be collecting evidence, we’ll be executing search warrants, doors will be coming off their hinges and we’ll be telling then exactly what we think of that behaviour in WA on behalf of our community,” he said. “Almost all West Australians do not tolerate this behaviour and think it’s disgusting. And that’s exactly what it is.” A video, which was posted on a now-deleted TikTok page for WA members, showed one of the protesters filming himself as the group sings Waltzing Matilda while being flanked by Adelaide police. The same TikTok page — “@western_aus” — also had photographs of several young men posing with the flag of the Nationalist Socialist Network. “2024 has been a great year for Western Australia,” one of the posts, published on January 1, states. “Excited things are planned for 2025 and we look forward to the year. Blood & Honour.” The phrase “blood and honour” was the motto of Hitler Youth and has since been used by other neo-nazi groups. Mr Blanch said WA Police had been tracking and monitoring the online behaviour of these offenders. “The State Security Investigation Group has spent a lot of time tracking these offenders, looking at their chat and the conversations that are going on about anything that may occur in Western Australia . . . and we’ll pass it onto enforcement teams to take action,” he said. “If these are members of your local footy club ... let’s have a chat to these people who think that this is acceptable behaviour. “I have told our police officers, ‘get ahead of it, do not let any of this form up and act immediately’. “It’s important to get ahead of it, purely because I don’t want our community to see that.” Premier Roger Cook said he was “very worried” about the rise of alt-right groups in WA. “They’re a danger to our social cohesion, they’re a danger to the community,” he said. “We saw accounts yesterday when we acknowledged or remembered the Holocaust, that these things start with angry conversations. “It starts with people not standing up to hate speech . . . it starts with people entertaining the thought that we should consider a community which is bigoted, which is discriminatory, which is intolerant, and that is why it is a danger to the community.” The Adelaide rally — on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day — attracted criticism from politicians and police from around the country. Speaking in Perth on Monday, the Prime Minister denounced the “horrific scenes”, saying there was “no place for this hateful ideology here in Australia, or indeed, anywhere else”. “Today of all days, when we commemorate 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp from the nazis, from the atrocities that occurred during the Holocaust which cost six million lives, today of all days . . . I was shocked by that,” he said.