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Graduating with a BA (Hons) in Photography from Trent Polytechnic in Nottingham, England in the Late 80′s, Craig went on to win The David Hodge Memorial Award Young Photojournalist of the Year with a story he had covered in Thailand. He...
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Far Right spread its tentacles into University, Eastern Germany
craig stennett
Feb 1, 2019
The House of the Identitarian Movement in Halle (Saale) is a center and residential project of the right-wing identity movement in Adam-Kuckhoff-Straße 16 in Halle. The AfD member Hans-Thomas Tillschneider maintains the house as a deputy office . On June 6, 2017, the opening of the house project was officially announced on the pages of the One Percent campaign . Both the house and campaign have finacial links and backing from the new-right publisher Götz Kubitschek. In addition to an office floor, there will be a movie studio, an event hall and a conference room in the house. Finally, a building in the Steintor quarter opposite the humanities Steintor campus of the University of Halle-Wittenberg was chosen as the location of the right-wing radical house project. Several surveillance cameras are attached to the house. The house is said to have cost € 330,000 together with the 404 m² plot and owned since January 1, 2017 by Helmut Englmann from the Lower Franconian Johannesberg in Bavaria , founder of the settled in Bad Nauheim Hessian Titurel Foundation , which acts as a promotional institute. At the end of November 2017, "Identitarians" attacked several plainclothes police officers of the Saxony-Anhalt police in front of the house. The two residents of the house who attacked the police were wearing protective helmets, shields and baseball bats , and using pepper spray. The Police officers were able to defend the attackers only by pulling their service weapons. The Halle area has developed according to Der Freitag in recent years to a hub of the new right movement . Chemnitz is also another operating chosen operating base for agitation..