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Alex Davies (born 1994 or 1995) is a Welsh
white nationalist
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and convicted
terrorist
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.
He is one of the founders of
National Action, the first
far-right
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extremist group banned in the United Kingdom since World War II.
[Far-right group National Action to be banned under terror laws]
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(12 December 2016). Accessed on 25 August 2018.
In 2011, at the age of 16, he was referred to the
Prevent programme, a government scheme to engage with extremists.
[Founding father of banned white supremacist group National Action identified as being at risk of radicalisation at 16]
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(25 July 2018). Accessed on 25 August 2018. He joined the youth wing of the
British National Party
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, but was disappointed at the 'disarray' of the party. He studied
philosophy
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at the
University of Warwick
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, where he sought to promote his political leanings on campus. In 2012, National Action was founded by Alex Davies and Benjamin Raymond, a student from the
University of Essex
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. The aim of the group was to create a
National Socialist
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, or
neo-Nazi
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, youth movement in the UK. At a National Action parade in Liverpool, Davies stated, "We’re like the BNP but more radical". He left the university at the end of the first year of his course, following an article in the ''Sunday Mirror'' in June 2014 which revealed his part in National Action. He returned to
South Wales
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to work in a telephone centre, and in 2018 lived in
Swansea
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The city is the twenty-fifth largest in ...
.
In 2016, he addressed the Welsh Forum on a topic of "
Saunders Lewis
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and Militant Welsh Nationalism". In May 2016, Davies had an argument with a mixed-race girl and her mother in
Bath, and the video went "
viral". National Action was banned by Home Secretary
Amber Rudd
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in December 2016 for being "a
racist
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,
anti-Semitic
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Antis ...
and
homophobic
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organisation".
After National Action was banned by the government in December 2016, the
Metropolitan Police
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's Counter Terrorism Policing Unit and the
Crown Prosecution Service
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The main responsibilities of the CPS are to provide legal adv ...
compiled evidence against members of NA who continued to actively promote its views via a series of regional organisations.
[ On 17 May 2022, Davies was found guilty by jury of being a member of banned fascist group National Action.][ During his trial at ]Winchester Crown Court
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, Prosecutor Barnaby Jameson QC told the court after the government banned NA, that Davies had set up a group called National Socialist Anti-Capitalist Action or NS131, using similar graphics, slogans and communications methods to NA, which was also later banned by the UK government. Mr Jameson QC put to Davies in court: "You are a neo-Nazi, yes?" Davies replied: "Sure." The case was adjourned for sentencing at the Central Criminal Court, The Old Bailey
The Central Criminal Court of England and Wales, commonly referred to as the Old Bailey after the street on which it stands, is a criminal court building in central London, one of several that house the Crown Court of England and Wales. The s ...
on 7 June 2022.
References
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Living people
1990s births
People from Swansea
Alumni of the University of Warwick
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