(CONTENT WARNING FOR EXTREME RACIST LANGUAGE, VIOLENCE)
(FIND PART ONE OF OUR TIMELINE HERE: https://antifainternational.tumblr.com/post/182479289794/2019-a-timeline-of-fascist-and-extreme-right)
In keeping with our 2017 & 2018 lists of fascist and extreme right violence, we thought it smart to continue this year. You’ll find the sources for each report listed on our corresponding map: http://bit.ly/33vanjZ
We will be updating this on the regular, so check back once in a while.
July 1, 2019: Three fascists racially insult a black stranger who walked past them in Hannover, Germany, after which one of the men made his dog attack the man, who was bitten in the leg.
July 1, 2019: Three fascists racially insult a black stranger who walked past them in Hannover, Germany, after which one of the men made his dog attack the man, who was bitten in the leg.
July 3, 2019: A 28-year-old man and woman aged 25, suspected of planning a terror attack on London Pride have been arrested by police in Luton, UK. They were planning a crude strike with a car and knives at the mass rally.
July 3, 3019: Antonia Laínez, a trans woman in El Negrito, Honduras, is shot dead in an attack that local residents describe as homophobic.
July 4, 2019: 17-year-old Elijah Al-Amin enters a Peoria, AZ. convenience store & is followed inside by 27-year-old Michael Paul Adams, who approaches the teen from behind, stabs him with a pocketknife and slits the boy’s throat. Adams tells arresting officers he murdered the teen because he “felt threatened by the music” Al-Amin was playing in his car; that rap music makes him feel “unsafe;” and that people who listen to rap music are a threat to him and the community.”
July 4, 2019: An 18-year-old woman isn “beaten black and blue” in a homophobic attack in a street in Hull, UK. The teenager was attacked by two women she thought were her friends. “Because she is gay they called her a ‘f****** lesbian, you and your girlfriend are going to get it 10 times worse next time’.
July 4, 2019: 40-year-old Santa Ana, CA. resident Joe Martin Rodirguez threatens his two gay roommates with a knife and a handgun after making homophobic remarks.
July 4, 2019: A Somali woman in a park in Spicer, MN. for Fourth of July celebrations is accosted by a man demanding she answer his questions about her religion and her hijab who then pepper sprays her and runs away. Minutes later, the same individual pepper sprays a woman supervising a group of adult with developmental disabilities.
July 4, 2019: A black family on their way to see the Fourth of July fireworks is parking their car when a group of white men come running out of an adjacent house, armed with knives and shovels, and throwing bottles at the family while yelling racial slurs. Two of the men grab one of the women and drag her towards the house, threatening to hang her. When her father arrived to intervene, they threatened to hang him too and hit him in the head with a shovel. A father and son, Scott Roeder, 63, and Ryan Roeder, 32, now face hate crimes charges.
July 5, 2019: A group of fascists attacked visitors of a bar in Nantes, France with batons, pepper spray and a smoke bomb, looking for antifascists. Several people had to be treated because of the pepper spray. Eight fascists were arrested.
July 6, 2019: Demetris Nelson uses Grindr to meet up with two gay men in Detroit. He shoots both of them, killing 31-year-old Brian Anderson and critically wounding 26-year-old Malcolm Drake. Nelson faces hate crime, murder, and attempted murder charges.
July 6, 2019: William Lamb is having drinks in a Hillsboro, ND. bar with his husband when a group of patrons harass them with homophobic slurs. When Lamb steps outside of the bar to smoke, one of the homophobes follows him outside and beats him unconscious, shattering his ankle and breaking his nose and some of his teeth in the process. Lamb has to undergo surgery to repair the damage done.
July 6, 2019: 27-year-old Johnathan Hall is at a nightclub in Kamloops, Canada when two men confront him, calling him “nigger” and “darkie.” When Hall’s friend attempts to defuse the situation, the two men attack, throwing Hall to the ground and kicking him repeatedly in his head.
July 6, 2019: Three neo-nazis in Pirmasens, Germany beat and chase two Ethiopian asylum-seekers. Local police try to cover up the racist motive, making up a story about a stolen chain in their press release, which they later have to admit is fake because a journalist saw the whole thing.
July 7, 2019: A lesbian couple walking down the street in Long Island, NY are sexually harassed by a group of men, one of whom swiftly escalates the situation by assaulting one of the women, who is taken to hospital to be treated for the resulting injuries.
July 8, 2019: 40-year-old Bessy Michelle Ferrera and two other transgender woman are standing on the street in Comayaguela, Honduras when two men in a passing car open fire on them, killing Ferrera and wounding one of the other women.
July 9, 2019: Self-proclaimed “white power skinhead” Justin Indiveri encounters a protest against ICE in downtown Portland, OR. Indiveri confronts the protestors, pulls out a knife, and repeatedly threatens to stab them. Indiveri has previous convictions for arson and domestic battery.
July 12, 2019: Samuel Lay, 30, attempts to run down two 12- and 14-year-old boys of Indian descent as the boys were walking along Morwood Lane in Creve Coeur. Charges say Lay sped east on Morwood toward the boys and forced them to jump off the road to avoid being hit. Police said the boys did not provoke Lay and that they had no previous interaction with him. After they got up and continued walking, Lay returned, pulled up next to the boys, cursed at them and called them “sand niggers” while threatening to “belt them,” charges say.
July 14, 2019: A young couple backpacking through Canada are found shot to death in a ditch alongside the Alaska highway. Police discover their truck, burned out and disposed of, five days later, along with the unidentified body of a middle-age man. Kam McLeod and Bryer Schmegelsky, two Canadian teenagers and life-long friends, are wanted as suspects in the crime. Schmegelsky, a self-described “gamer” was known in gaming communities for praising Adolf Hitler and nazi Germany and for posting photos of himself wearing nazi regalia.
July 16, 2019: Immediately following a minor fender-bender in Buffalo, NY., 62-year-old Jeffrey Calhoun grabs the other drive, Jeanneie Mohammad, bites her, calls her a racial slur, and flashes a handgun. Calhoun is charged with hate crimes.
July 17, 2019: A group of men kick in the door of a Roma family’s apartment in Albuccione, Italy; assault the family members; and demand money from them. Shortly thereafter, more than 100 people armed with baseball bats, stones, and bottles, descend on another Roma family’s home in the area, smashing out the windows and shouting Kill them all!” “Burn them alive!” “Send them all away!”
July 18, 2019: A 62-year-old Hindu priest is walking near his temple in Queens, NY when a man approaches him from behind, screaming “this is my neighborhood!” and beats him, hospitalizing him.
July 18, 2019: Well-known Russian LGBTQ activist, Yelena Grigoryeva, was fatally stabbed in her home in St. Petersburg Sunday night by a 40-year old man, after her name was listed on a website that encourages people to “hunt” LGBTQ activists.
July 19, 2019: Two Dalit men and one Muslim man are surrounded by a mob in Bihar, India and beaten to death. The mob records the murders on video.
July 19, 2019: As he is leaving a Québec City convenience store, taxi driver Karim Smaini is confronted by Keven Lavoie-Deschênes, 33, and Christina Bédard, 36, who call him a “goddamn immigrant,” then rush at him, stabbing him in the chest.
July 19, 2019: 27-year-old Imran Ismail Patel is returning from work in Muzaffarnagar, India, when a group of ten Hindu extremists top his motorcycle and beat him until he recites Hindu chants until a local couple intervenes in the attack, rescuing Patel.
July 19, 2019 A 64-year old man is beaten in a train near Lohr, Germany, after he tells two neo-nazis, 40 and 34 years old, to turn off their loud nazi music.
July 20, 2019: Police in North Charleston, SC responding to reports of a pedestrian struck by a vehicle discover the body of 29-year-old Denali Berries Stuckey, a black transgender woman. Stuckey had been shot to death and left on the road.
July 20, 2019: Mamoudou Barry died on July 21st of injuries he sustained after he was beaten in a racist attack in Rouen, France, the day before. The young professor-researcher, 31 years old and father of a 2 year old girl, was targeted by his attacker while he was driving home with his wife. “The attacker pointed them out and said,” You dirty blacks, we’re going to fuck you tonight, “said a friend. That night Algeria and Senegal clashed the same evening in the final of the African Cup of Nations Football. Fascists attacked many people across France that night. Maamoudou got out of his car to confront the racist, and was attacked, which made him fall, breaking his neck.
July 21, 2019: Two Muslim men are surrounded by a group of Hindu extremists, in Azad Chowk, India, who beat them until they recite Hindu chants. After the victims reported the attack to local police, the police confiscated one of the victim’s cell phones and have been pressuring both to water down their statements.
July 23, 2019: After multiple threats from right wing extremists, a bomb is detonated at the home of Zittau City Councilwoman of Die Linke, Ramona Gehring, while she and her family are at home.
July 24, 2019: A transgender woman is repeatedly stabbed on a nature trail in central Austin, TX.
July 24, 2019: Two transgender woman are abducted and tortured to death in Multan, Pakistan. The police recover their mutilated bodies three days later.
July 24, 2019: A transgender woman is murdered in the Chilpancingo, Mexico bar she worked at.
July 24, 2019: Joseph Rubino, 57, of Lafayette Township, was driving a van when he lost control, ran off the road and struck a tree, police said. State troopers who responded to the crash observed various firearms and ammunition inside the van. Police subsequently obtained search warrants for Rubino’s vehicle and home, where they said they discovered a cache of weapons, including multiple semiautomatic rifles and handguns, several high-capacity magazines and a grenade launcher. They said they also found Nazi paraphernalia and approximately 70 grams of methamphetamine. Authorities didn’t reveal any motive for the stash of weapons and accessories that included brass knuckles, dozens of silencer tubes, a bullet-resistant vest, two sawed-off double-barrel shotgun barrels, and 17 assorted pistols, handguns, rifles and shotguns. Police found clothing and bumper stickers with “SS Bolts”. They also discovered a document titled “N*gger Owner’s Manual,” which contained “racist material” and purported to be “an instruction manual for owning a slave,” according to the complaint.
July 25, 2019: 19-year-old Islamophobe & white supremacist Michael Jobe walks into a jazz festival in Toronto and randomly attacks another man at the festival in an unprovoked assault, stabbing and severely injuring him. Jobe has been charged with attempted murder.
July 25, 2019: A journalist is beaten on the Odra boulevard in Wroclaw, Poland after he expressed outrage when he saw homophobic graffiti on the wall while biking with his girlfriend. When he got off his bike a short distance later to fix the wheel, he was attacked by a young man, who asked him “So you don’t like the slogans?” The young man punched him several times, breaking his nose.
July 26, 2019: After fleeing an abusive & religious extremist household, a 16-year-old LGBT youth is stabbed outside of a Tel Aviv hostel by his own brother.
July 26, 2019: A 26-year old from Eritrea was seriously injured after he was shot multiple times in a racist attack in Wächtersbach, Germany by 55-year old far-right German man, who later shot himself before police could arrest him.
July 26, 2019: A 23-year-old Jewish Israeli man was indicted for committing an anti-Arab assault in a confrontation with five Arab men at a grocery store in his hometown of Netanya, Israel and stabbing one of them. According to the indictment, on July 26, five people came to the store by car and two of them went inside to buy food. Kasta allegedly approached the car in which the three others were sitting and asked them if they were Arabs. After one of them answered that they were, Kasta replied: “Stinking Arabs, get out of here,” the indictment states, after which he asked one of them to get out of the car. When the man failed to comply, Kasta allegedly pulled out a knife and stabbed the man.
July 28, 2019: A black Chevy Impala drives by the Young Israel of Greater Miami synagogue, then circles back. The driver gets out, shoots an Orthodox Jewish man waiting for services to start in the leg, then drives away.
July 28, 2019: 19-year-old white supremacist Santino William Legan enters a food festival in Gilroy, CA. with an AK-47 he purchased three weeks prior and begins shooting. He murders four people, including a six-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl, and injures 15 others. The day before the shooting, Legan made a social media post encouraging people to read a white supremacist manifesto popular in extreme racist circles.
July 28, 2019: A cab driver in Montréal blocking the entrance to a parking garage is asked to move so the driver behind him, a Jewish man, can get in. The cabbie tells the man “I don’t move for Jews.” When the man attempts to take a photo of the cab, the cabbie gets out, pushes him against a parked car, and punches him repeatedly in the head, screaming “dirty fucking Jew! I never move for Jews! I’m going to fucking kill you!” A woman walking by attempted to intervene and was punched by the cabbie as well. The Jewish man was hospitalized for injuries he sustained.
July 28, 2019: 23-year-old Menhaz Zaman - an avid gamer and former Muslim who rejected the religion and began posting Islamophobic and extreme racist screeds on social media & gaming channels - murders his entire family in their Markham, Canada home, then posts photos of the carnage online.
July 28, 2019: 15-year-old Abdul Khaliq Ansari is abducted by four men while walking home from morning prayers in Chandauli, India. The men tried to force the Muslim teenager to recite a Hindu chant. When he refused, the men poured kerosene on him and set him on fire. He dies in hospital two days later.
July 28, 2019: The general manager of Harvest House, a Denton, Texas bar, said he was punched in the face and called an anti-Semitic slur Sunday night, after he asked a group of about four people to leave because one of them had multiple swastika tattoos on display for everybody to see. “They started yelling about this is a free country, and they can do anything they want,” Moon said. He said two of the people threw beer on him and another used the pint glass to punch him in the side of his face. Moon said someone called him an anti-Semitic slur he hasn’t heard since high school back in East Texas. Harvest House was one of two Denton bars to be met with white supremacist intimidation over the weekend. In a video taken outside Rubber Gloves on Saturday, Nazis wearing Patriot Front shorts can be heard shouting, “Reclaim America!”
July 29, 2019: A gay man is confronted by three other men at a Racine, WI. intersection. The three men yell homophobic slurs at the men before punching and kicking him mercilessly. His injuries to his face are so severe that he is hospitalized and has to have all of his teeth removed.
July 29, 2019: 58-year-old Barre VT. resident Stuart Kurt Rollins starts a fight with his HIspanic neighbors, starting by exposing himself to a woman and three-year-old child, then smashing their mailbox, then threatening to “get rid of you people from my street,” and to set fire to their home while they slept. He also told one woman “Fucking Spanish bitch, I’m going to set you on fire and watch you burn, bitch!” Rollins is the first person in Vermont to be prosecuted federally for hate crimes.
July 31, 2019: After removing pork from their lunch menus, two nursery schools in Leipzig, Germany receive threats from right-wing extremists, who promise to murder school staff and burn the nurseries down if pork is not reintroduced.
August 2, 2019: After finishing her bartending shift, transgender woman Alicia Love Wood is taunted by a group of seven men hurling homophobic and transphobic abuse at her. They then swarm her, punching, kicking, stomping, and spitting on her. She manages to break away and flees into a gas station for safety but the men pursue her and assault her a second time in the gas station, robbing her.
August 2, 2019: A man in Rzeszów, Poland, insults and attacks a Muslim woman walking her 3-month old child in a park, trying to push over the stroller holding her child, yelling white power and giving a Hitler salute.
August 3, 2019: 21-year-old Patrick Crusius - an ardent Trump supporter who published an anti-immigration manifesto on 8chan that referenced the Christchurch, NZ. white supremacist mass murderer, railed against “race-mixing,” and stated he was about to commit a mass murder “because immigrants are taking over the country, walks into an El Paso Wal-Mart with an assault rifle and shoots 40 people, killing 22 of them. He tells police that he was “targeting Mexicans” in the attack.
August 3, 3019: 37-year-old transgender woman Nemer da Silva Rodrigues is attacked in Santa Maria, Brazil. She is stabbed thirteen times and dies, her body left beside a gym.
August 3, 3019: 27-year-old transgender woman Carolline Dias is standing on a street corner in Santa Maria, Brazil when an unknown man approaches her, shoots her dead, and flees.
August 4, 2019: 21-year old man is assaulted and called homophobic slurs by three men after saying goodbye to his boyfriend at the station in Cagliari, Italy.
August 4, 2019: Alexis Ortiz Céspedes, 31, and José Augusto Meran Vicente are arrested for stabbing transgender woman Yoni Manuel Pérez Beriguete to death in San Juan de la Maguana, Dominican Republic.
August 6, 2019: 26-year-old Johnathan Hydock rams his car into another vehicle at an Alliance, OH. intersection, then begins yelling racial slurs at the other driver. Hydock then jumps out of his car, yells "white power,”! and runs towards the other driver while appearing to be reaching into his pockets for a handgun. Hydock is charged with ethnic intimidation and aggravated menacing.
August 6, 2019: Richard Clayton, 26, is arrested in Winter Park after making online threats just a day after the mass shooting in El Paso. Clayton posted on Facebook, “3 more days of probation left then I get my AR-15 back. Don’t go to Walmart next week.” “Clayton appears to believe in the white supremacist ideology and has a history of posting threats on Facebook using fictitious accounts,” Florida Department of Law Enforcement officials said.
August 7, 2019: The Sterling, Ohio home of an interrracial couple is bombed, completely destroying it. Police find swastikas and anti-black slurs spraypainted on the remains of the garage door and are investigating the attack as a hate crime.
August 7, 2019: Shane Kohfield, a Portland OR-area right wing extremist and attendee of at least one fascist-organized event, has his guns seized by police under the state’s “red flag” laws after writing to politicians threatening to kill anti-fascists “until we have achieved genocide” and claiming to have a “detailed plan on how I would wipe out antifa,” when we spoke in front of the Portland mayor’s house white wearing a MAGA hat, body armor, and sporting a huge knife and a pistol.
August 9, 2019: 23-year-old Las Vegas resident Conor Climo is arrested after plotting with members of the nazi National Socialist Movement to bomb Jewish and LGBTQ+ targets in the city, including teh local office of the Anti-Defamation League. Police seized bomb parts, schematic drawings for bomb timers, and maps of local gay bars and other targets from Climo’s home.
August 10, 2019: Two men were charged with threatening to open fire on a Las Vegas Strip nightclub, according to police. Johnny Young, 22, and Braxton Ryback, 25, were arrested Aug. 10 and charged with one count each of making false threats in an act of terrorism after the two were removed from XS Nightclub at Encore. They are accused of yelling “white privilege, white power, we are white supremacists,” and threatening to “shoot up the place,” according to an arrest report from the Metropolitan Police Department.
August 10, 2019: After murdering his 17-year-old stepsister, white supremacist, misogynist, religious extermist, & Islamophobe Philip Manshaus storms into the Al-Noor Islamic centre in Baern, Norway with three guns during Eid celebrations, only to be tackled by 65-year-old worshipper Mohamed Rafiq, who holds him down until police arrive, despite he & another worshipper being injured by the would-be mass murderer.
August 10, 2019: 58-year-old transient Robert William Oden confronts three men walking past him into a Portland gay bar. Yelling homophobic & racist slurs at the three and telling them to “go back to your country,” Oden assaults all three men, injuring one.
August 12, 2019: In three separate attacks that all occurred within an hour of each other, assailants snuck up behind Hasidic Jewish men walking in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, bludgeoned them, and then robbed them as they were lying unconscious or immobile on the sidewalk. Two of the victims were seriously injured in the attacks.
August 12, 2019: Two LGBTQ+ homeowners in Portland find unexploded Molotov cocktails in their yards, then receive anonymous threatening text messages stating that their homes were targeted because of their sexual orientation.
August 13, 2019: Eric Scardino, armed with a shovel and a knife, chases a black acquaintance through the streets of Portland, OR., calling him a “nigger” and threatening to kill him until police arrive and arrest Scardino. In October, Scardino becomes the second person convicted under the state’s new bias crime laws.
August 15, 2019: A rabbi is insulted and attacked in the street by two men in the neighbourhood of Charlottenburg, Berlin.
August 15, 2019: Transphobe, racist and Trump supporter Brandon Wagshole is arrested by FBI in Norwalk, Connecticut, after “professing an interest in committing a mass-shooting” online and trying to acquire “high capacity rifle magazines” from out of state. Police say that they uncovered a weapons cache during the raid, including titanium body armor and a combat helmet.
August 16, 2019: 20-year-old self-avowed “white nationalist” and anti-semite James Reardon Jr. is arrested when the FBI raid his home in response to threats Reardon made to commit a mass shooting in an Ohio synagogue. Police seize several assault rifles, a gas mask, bulletproof armor, ammunition, and white supremacist paraphenelia.
August 16, 2019: FBI agents arrested 23-year-old Eric Lin, a Hitler-obsessed Donald Trump-supporting resident of WA. who sent a Latina woman in Miami 150-pages worth of death threats over the course of two months; tried to pay someone $10,000 to kidnap her; and made numerous online threats of coming to Miami to murder Latino people in a “race war.”
August 17, 2019: As Guardian columnist & noted anti-fascist Owen Jones leaves a London pub with friends after celebrating his birthay, a group of 3-4 men follow them out an immediately attack Jones, kicking him in the back, knocking him to the ground, and kicking him in the head. They also punch Jones’ friends, how attempt to come to his aid, before fleeing. Jones had been threatened several times by far right extremists earlier in the year.
August 18, 2019: A Shia Muslim wedding in Kabul, Afghanistan is bombed, killing 63 people and injuring 182 others. ISIS claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing.
August 18, 2019: A mob of teenagers attack two young Muslim women at a shopping mall in Dundrum, Ireland, knocking both to the ground, ripping off their hijabs, kicking them and pelting them with eggs.
August 19, 2019: As she leaves a party in Arcoverde, Brazil, transgender woman Aline da Silva is approached by a stranger who stabs her in the neck, killing her as she waits for a bus.
August 19, 2019: 26-year-old transgender woman and hairdresser Natasha Ruby Arévalo Carvajal is stabbed to death in Quito, Ecuador.
August 19,2019: Returning to her Columbus, OH. home from a concert, 27-year-old Elizabeth Sunderman is confronted by an older man who lives in her apartment building. The man began screaming homophobic slurs at Sunderman, kicking her in the face and slamming her head into the stairs.
August 21, 2019: 53-year-old transgender woman Daniela Martínez is approached by three men in Cicuco, Colombia. The three men had attacked Martínez twice before. This time, they tied her hands and beat her to death with clubs and rocks, then set fire to her body.
August 22, 2019: A 17-year-old black teenager is visiting with his girlfriend at her home when three adult family members arrive home, tie him up, repeatedly beat him, and threaten to murder him while yelling racial slurs. The teen is hospitalized from his injuries.
August 23, 2019: A 19-year-old man is charged with hate crimes after attempting to set a Santa Maria, CA. church on fire.
August 23, 2019: Kurdish teenager Sirin Tosun is on his way to gather hazelnuts with his family when six men, hearing him speaking Kurdish, stop him, beat him, and shoot him, leaving him for dead. Tosun dies of his injuries six weeks later.
August 24, 2019: Montréal clothing designer Markantoine Lynch-Boisvert & his partner are attacked by three men shouting homophobic slurs at them outside of a Charlevoix, Québec bar. The couple are beaten to the ground and Lynch-Boisvert is repeatedly kicked in the face. Both men sufer consussions and Lynch-Boisvert has to undergo surgery to repair three bone fractures.
August 24, 2019: Two people are assaulted outside of a London, Canada gay bar. Both are injured in the attack, which police describe as a “hate/bias motivated” assault.
August 24, 2019: 37-year-old Fred Joseph Costanza marches 100 years across Agate State Park in Oregon and into a women’s washroom to assault a transgender woman using the facilities. He beats the woman severely, fracturing her skull and breaking her jaw in several places. The woman is hospitalized and may have to undergo reconstructive surgery as a result of the attack.
August 24, 2019: A transgender woman is shot to death by two men on a scooter as she makes her way to an Acapulco, Mexico taqueria.
August 25, 2019: Parmjit Singh, a 64-year-old Sikh man living in Tracy, CA., is stabbed to death while taking a walk through his neighborhood park.
August 26, 2019: After his car is accidentally cut off by a trans woman in DC traffic, 37-year-old Brian Simmons throws a bottle at her windshield, smashing it, then rams her car, then gets out of his car and runs over to the trans woman, repeatedly punching her in the face and calling her “faggot” while a gathering crowd chanted “kill the faggot!” When police arrive, Simmons refuses to stop beating the trans woman until the police pepper-spray him. Simmons’ one-year-old daughter was in his car throughout this incident.
August 27, 2019: 63-year-old Abraham Gopin is jogging in a Crown Heights, Brooklyn park when a man wielding a paving stone comes running at him, yelling anti-semitic slurs and smashing him in the head with the stone, breaking Gopin’s nose and several of his teeth, and then punching him repeatedly before running off.
August 27, 2019: A group of men smash their way into the home of a transgender woman in Mansehra, Pakistan and shoot her, killing her.
August 28, 2019: A drunk 44-year old was fined by police for sexually harassing a woman in Zorneding, Germany. Later that night police were called on him again and he was arrested for breaking windows. The man gave a Hitler-salute and threatened to kill the police officers arresting him.
August 29, 2019: After months of racist harassment, a black homeowner in Indianapolis, IN. is sitting at home when attackers shoot fourteen bullets into his home. Police believe the attack is racially or religiously-motivated.
August 29, 2019: A gang of men throw a heavy object through the drivers-side window of a car being driven through Crown Heights, Brooklyn by an Orthodox Jewish man, smashing out his window and hitting him in the eye.
August 29, 2019: About twelve young people marched through Aschheim, Germany shouting racist slogans and giving the Hitler salute. The group then attacked a woman at a bus stop, beating and kicking her. One of the attackers was arrested.
August 29, 2019: A Weimar, Germany city-council member for the far-right AfD party was arrested for drunkenly firing blanks from a gun, and threatening police when they arrested him.
August 30, 2019: A transgender woman is shot dead in the street in Zihuatanejo, Mexico.
August 31, 2019: A bar established by Palestinian refugees in Sao Paulo, Brazil that employees 35 refugees is fire-bombed during a dance night by a fascist gang. Luckily, none of the bar’s patrons or staff are injured.
August 31, 2019: An 45-year-old Orthodox Jewish man walking past a Midwood, Brooklyn synagogue is confronted by two men drinking outside of the synagogue. One of the men knocks the Jewish man to the ground, strips his belt off, and whips him in the face repeatedly, cutting open the man’s face.
August 31, 2019: 21-year-old transgender woman Brigitte Aquilino Escalona Escobar is abducted, her naked, battered body found days later on the street in Caracas, Venezuela.
September 1, 2019: A Muslim woman walking in Walthamstow, London with her children is attacked by another woman yelling “go back to your country!” and demanding to know why she is wearing a niqab before attempting to rip it off of her.
September 1, 2019: 17-year-old trans woman Bailey Reeves is shot several times on Parkwood Avenue in Baltimore, MD. She dies in hospital a few hours later.
September 1-8, 2019: At least 7 people died in xenophobic riots in and around Johannesburg, South Africa. Mobs of South Africans attacked and looted shops owned by immigrants from the rest of Africa. More than 50 shops were destroyed and a Mosque was attacked. Isaac Sithole, a Zimbabwean, was beaten up and burnt alive by South African rioters in Katlehong. His sister-in-law alleged that a baby had also died in an arson attack.September 2, 2019: 26-year-old trans woman Andra Mora López is crushed to death in Tequendama, Colombia when she is deliberately rammed by a car.
September 3, 2019: 27-year-old Ira Moores is confronted by a man at an Atlanta Black Pride event. The man calls him several homophobic slurs before beating him, kicking him, and then shooting him four times.
September 4, 2019: The burnt body of 23-year-old trans woman Bee Love Slater is found inside an abandoned car in Clewiston, Florida. Burnt beyond recognition, it took coroners a full week before they could positively identify her.
September 4, 2019: James Thomas Seay - a longtime KKK member and neo-nazi is arrested in Henrico Country, VA for shooting and killing his uncle.
September 5, 2019: 43-year-old Cormac Patrick Rothsey is arrested by police in Hamilton, NSW after making threats on line to commit a mass shooting at an Australian mosque the next day.
September 5, 2019: 25-year-old transgender woman Vitória Santos Falcão is lying on the couch at her Juína, Brazil home when two men smash through the back door, run up to her, and shoot her twice, killing her.
September 6, 2019: A transgender car share driver is abused by her transphobic passenger, who then escalates to hitting her in the back of the head and neck repeatedly. When the passenger gets out of the car and comes towards the driver’s door to drag the driver out, she pepper sprays him and he runs away.
September 6, 2019: Yuri Gabriel Castro Farias Praciano, a 20-year-old transgender man, was approached by three other men in Ceará, Brazil, tied to a pole, and executed with three shots to the head. After shooting, the body was dragged a few meters from Álvares Maciel Street.
September 7, 2019: Well-known Dortmund, Germany nazi “SS Siggi” strikes a 25-year old man in the face with his cane after he and two of his nazi-friends started an argument with the man for being a left-winger.
September 7, 2019: The remains of two transgender men are found scattered in two different locations in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.
September 9, 2019: A Jewish man and three of his friends are standing outside a Berlin nightclub speaking in Hebrew. A passer-by hears this and punches the man in his face, before running away.
September 9, 2019: Indonesian police are investigating allegations of masked motorcycle riders throwing bags of snakes into a West Papuan student dormitory in Surabaya and “deliberately spreading terror”. Students at the East Java accommodation, which was the target of racist attacks by fascist groups and the police last month, said shortly after 4am Monday four people on two motorcycles pulled up outside the building. They threw an open sack containing a 15-20kg python, and another containing three “aggressive” snakes which escaped into the compound.
September 10, 2019: Matthew Frazier and Matthew Rawlings assault a black student at the University of Arizona, calling the student a “nigger” several times before tackling him and punching and kicking him while he was on the ground.
September 11, 2019: A man in his sixties approaches a Muslim woman walking with her husband and two children of two and four, in the small village of Sury-le-Comtal, France. He pretends to ask her for some information then suddenly produces a knife and starts stabbing her, causing serious injuries.
September 11, 2019: A 39-year old man in Bielefeld, Germany, attacked a group of schoolchildren of around 12-years old with pepperspray, injuring ten of them. After being caught by police he described his motive as “racist.”
September 12, 2019: Two trans people are waiting for food at a food cart in Portland, OR. when two men approach and attack one of them, knocking her to the ground and punching and kicking her while yelling homophobic and transphobic slurs. When her friend attempted to intervene, they were also assaulted, receiving a black eye and broken nose.
September 12, 2019: 25-year-old Shokir Shavkatov is escorted away from a gay nightclub in Tashkent, Uzbekistan by two men claiming to be police. Shavkatov’s body is found the next day with two large stab wounds and his head nearly-completely severed.
September 13, 2019: A man threatens four black boys aged 10-13 with a knife while shouting racial slurs at them in a Los Angeles park.
September 15, 2019: Members of the Ukrainian nazi gang Freikorps (named after the predecessors of Hitler’s SA/SS) attack an LGBTQ Pride parade in Kharkiv, hospitalizing two marchers. After Police arrest 15 Freikorps members, the rest of the gang attack the police and one officer is pepper-sprayed.
September 15, 2019: The body of 26-year-old transgender woman Bruna Torres is found on the side of a São Carlos, Brazil highway. Her hands and feet bound, Torres’ neck was broken and her face showed visible signs of trauma.
September 16, 2019: Two nazis in St. Petersburg, Russia pepper-spray and stab a Uzbek migrant, seriously injuring him.
September 17, 2019: Four men chase a 24-year-old Jewish man down a Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn street, beating and kicking him before stealing his cell phone and running away.
September 17, 2019: 23-year-old Besufikad Beshanu Tujuba approaches two women talking in the parking lot of a Washington D.C. apartment complex, making a cutting gesture across his throat and telling the women “I am going to kill you” and “I hate transgender women,” before punching one woman in the face and kicking her in the back. The previous day, Tujuba had approached the second woman, said “hola bitch” and punched her in the face and back before walking away.
September 17, 2019: After leaving friends at a Bolinao, Phillipines bar to go buy cigarettes, transgender woman Jessa Remiendo does not return. She is found hacked to death and partially-clothed on a local beach then next morning.
September 19, 2019: After a 11-year-old boy in the Seyhan district of Adana, Turkey is sexually assaulted, a group of vigilantes chase a Syrian refugee they mistakenly blame for the attack into his house. They then set his house on fire and the growing mob then proceeds to smash up and burn out Syrian-owned shops in the neighborhood as police pursue the real culprit - a 20-year-old Turkish national.
September 19, 2019: 15-year-old transgender teen Leandro Parra Hermosilla is stabbed to death by a nother teen in Coyhaique, Chile.
September 20, 2019: A man pulls up in a car beside a transgender woman in Dallas, yells several transphobic slurs at her, and then shoots her seven times before driving away. 22-year-old Domingo Ramierz-Cayente is charged with the crime.
September 20, 2019: 26-year-old transgender woman Bruna Surfistinha is in the shower in Chorozinho, Brazil when two assailants enter, shoot her to death, and flee.
September 20, 2019: The mutilated body of 15-year-old transgender teen Médely Razard is found semi-naked in a forest near Itaquaquecetuba, Brazil. Authorities believe she was sexaully assaulted and strangled.
September 21, 2019: U.S. soldier Jarrett William Smith is arrested by the FBI in Geary, Kansas after Smith discussed killing a Democratic presidential nominee and anti-fascists, talked about his desire to join a right-wing extremist paramilitary group in Ukraine, and provided detailed plans for building a viable bomb to an undercover FBI agent via an online messaging service.
September 21, 2019: Two men chased a 24-year old Nigerian man in Anzio, Italy, beating him with clubs when they caught him, causing injuries to his head and neck.
September 21, 2019: Two drunk 21-year old men insulted a black 18-year old from Múnchen for his skin-color during Oktoberfest in München. One of the men then hit the 18-year old, who proceeded to knock out both of the drunks harassing him.
September 22, 2019: Hedayat Ullah, a 45-year-old Pakistani immigrant and manager of a Saskatoon, Canada gas station is pumping gas when a man approaches him from the sidewalk, demanding to know why Ullah is in Canada and yelling that he has no right to be in the country before punching him in the chest. Ullah flees into the gas station, only to be followed by the man, who throws the till off the counter and smashing up the station while yelling at Ullah and a Filipino customer before police arrive to arrest him.
September 23, 2019: A Jewish man walking to Shul in Flatbush, Brooklyn is approached by another man yelling anti-semitic slurs at him, who then attempts to punch him in the face several times before the Jewish man is able to escape unharmed.
September 23, 2019: Nassau County police arrest 33-year-old Wantagh, NY resident Joseph Magistro after smashing out the windows of his black neighbor’s home. When the neighbors, a 62-year-old & her 17-year-old grandson, ran out of the house to investigate, Magistro confronted them with a shotgun, calling them niggers, telling them they don’t belong in the neighborhood because it’s a “white neighborhood” and threatening “to put a fucking bullet in you right now!”
September 23, 2019: Michael Kossler, a Berlin city counci lmember for the far-right AfD party, punhces a member of the public in the face during a townhall meeting.
September 25, 2019: A queer woman punched in the face in a homophobic attack might suffer permanent damage to her vision as a result. The victim, aged in her 20s, was battered in the back and front of her head in Bournemouth, UK. She suffered swelling to the eye socket and had to receive medical treatment.
September 27, 2019: A transgender woman in Jacksonville, Florida is beaten, then tied to a minivan and dragged for two blocks. She remains in hospital with life-threatening injuries while her attacker, Eric Shaun Bridges, has been charged with attempted murder.
September 28, 2019: A married couple in Lublin, Poland are arrested at an LGBTQ+ march after police discover they are carrying homemade IEDs, which they planned to detonate in an attack on the marchers. Elsewhere on the parade route, homophobes blocking the march attack journalists, injuring two of them.
September 28, 2019: The body of a transgender woman is found in Registro, Brazil. Witnesses report her hands and feet being bound and an apparent stab wound in her neck.
September 28, 2019: 25-year-old transgender woman Yoselin Marín Velasco is found partially naked in a public square in Ciudad Modelo, Colombia. She had been shot to death.
September 29, 2019: 30-year-old transgender woman Júnia Franco is found stabbed to death in the neighbourhood Morumbi section in Uberlandia, Brazeil. Police count at least thirteen stab wounds on her body.
October 5, 2019: 50-year-old gay rights activist Anthony Dolci is confronted by a man during a protest in Manhattan. The man shouts homophobic slurs at Dolci before breaking his sign in two and hitting him with it.
October 6, 2019: 50-year-old Kyle Allen smashes into three Muslim women walking in San Diego’s Little Italy, yelling at them to “go back to your country” and then slapping and beating them and pulling the hijab off of one woman.
October 9, 2019: 27-year-old Stephan Balliet goes on a 35-minute shooting spree in Halle, Germany. Armed with a rifle and explosives, Balliet tries unsuccessfully to force his way into a synagogue before murdering a woman passing by and then proceeding to kill another man in a doner shop. Two others are severely-injured in the attack, which Balliet livestreams, ranting about Jews, feminists, and immigrants as he broadcasts his murder spree.
October 10, 2019: A 26-year-old Iranian university student in Florence is approached by three men, who ask him if he is gay, then attack him while screaming homophobic abuse. The student is punched and has his face slammed against the pavement, breaking facial bones.
October 12, 2019: A Jewish man is walking through Crown Heights, Brooklyn when a man on a bicycle cuts him off, slaps him in the face, calls him a "dirty Jew,” and rides off.
October 15, 2019: A 17-year-old Syrian refugee is riding the San Diego trolley on his way home from school when a man asks him if he’s Mexican. When he replies that he’s Arab, the man unleashes a flurry of punches to his head while cursing him with anti-Arab and anti-Muslim slurs. None of the other passengers intervene in the attack.
October 15, 2019: 74-year-old Ekrem Yasli is waiting with his wife in a Canakkale, Turkey hospital when another man in the waiting room, after overhearing them speaking Kurdish, screams “this is the Turkish Republic!” and smashes a bottle over Yasli’s head, seriously injuring him.
October 19, 2019: Two U.S. airmen are attacked in a nightclub in Zadar, Croatia by a mob of 8-10 men because they were “acting gay” and “were dancing too vigorously.” Both are treated in local hospital for various injuries.
October 22, 2019: A Norwegian nazi armed with a shotgun and an Uzi hijacks an ambulance in Oslo and goes on a rampage, attempting to run down pedestrians, injuring five people including two seven-month-old babies before being stopped by police and arrested.
October 23, 2019: About 50 Hungarian neonazis from “Legio Hungaria” group attack the Aurora Jewish Community Centre in Budapest during a nationalist march to commemorate the 1956 uprising against Soviet occupation. The mob attemps to torch the building, burns a rainbow flag at its entrance and litters the grounds with neo-nazi stickers and graffiti. Luckily, nobody was harmed. The centre was closed during the attack and its staff was alerted of it by neighbours. The police was called, but, according to reports, they turned up after about 20 minutes, said they have no capacity to deal with the attack and left.
October 27, 2019: 27-year-old trans woman Anahy Miranda Rivas is abducted by a group of armed men and pushed inside a van on a busy San Salvador street. She is beaten and dragged and finally stabbed to death, with her body being dumped outside of a Blvd. de los Héros nightclub.
October 27, 2019: 54-year-old Excelsior, MN. resident Michael Anderson decides to express his dissatisfaction with his food delivery service by berating his Muslim delivery driver with a slew of Islamophobic and racist slurs, telling him to “go back to your country” before assaulting the man.
October 27, 2019: A man is charged with assault after homophobic attack on a man for having a rainbow sticker on car in a McDonald’s drive-through. York Police charged Umair Ahmed Qurashi, 33, with assault and mischief after he physically assaulted Jacob Gal. The attack left the victim with a “bloody but not broken” nose.
October 28, 2019: Claude Sinké, a former candidate for the Front National, was arrested in Bayonne, France after shooting two elderly Muslim men. The men were shot when they surprised the attacker as he was trying to set fire to the mosque they were in. Both men were seriously injured.
October 29, 2019: A 70-year-old Jewish man was beaten on a Berlin street in an apparent anti-Semitic attack. Police said the victim was initially insulted by an unknown man as he walked in the Karow neighbourhood of the German capital. The Jewish man defended himself verbally, prompting the assailant to strike him multiple times. The victim stumbled and fell to the ground. The beating was only stopped when a passerby intervened and sent the attacker fleeing.
October 31, 2019: As he is walking to his car in St. George, UT, Josh Pedersen, who is gay, is attacked from behind by three men shouting homophobic abuse at him and beating him until passerby chase them off.
November 1, 2019: A gang of thugs storm into Lbubljana, Slovenia’s newest gay bar shortly after closing time, smashing out the door & windows and threatening to beat the “faggots” remaining, who had barricaded themselves in the bar.
November 1, 2019: A Peruvian immigrant is walking back from paring his truck in downtown Milwaukee when another man stops him, asks him why he was in “my country,” accuses him of being an “illegal,” and then throws acid in his face, burning and disfiguring him.
November 1, 2019: A group of men in a car cruise the streets of Boro Park, NY late on a Friday, stopping to chase two Hasidic Jewish teens and then stopping twice more to punch two Hasidic Jewish men.
November 1, 2019: White supremacist Richard Holzer is arrested in Pueblo, CO after plotting to blow up a Colorado synagogue. Together with what turned out to be undercover FBI-agents, Holzer prepared explosives to blow up the synagogue, having told them that he had already tried to use poison on the congregation of Temple Emanuel.
November 1, 2019: A man carrying a pink dog carrier has been brutally attacked in Belgrade, Serbia, after his attackers wrongly assumed he was gay. Police have arrested two men over the attack on Ilija Vučević at a pizza restaurant in central Belgrade on Friday night. Vučević was left needing medical treatment after the attack, and shared a bloody selfie on Facebook. He explained that the two attackers “thought I was gay because I had a pet bag on my shoulder” – while his wife, Marija, was nearby with the dog. The victim wrote: “Tonight I was brutally attacked in the center of Belgrade because two hooligans thought that pink dog transporter bag is a proof that I’m a homosexual. “Three lost teeth, one stitch and several bruises are the [result] of the attack. Despite not being a homosexual, tonight I am proud to ‘be’ one of them.” He added: “I hope it will be characterized as a hate crime. Although I do not belong to the LGBT community, I was attacked for it.”
November 2, 2019: A group of men break up an event at a Boston gay bar by attacking patrons, punching and kicking them and putting at least one man into a chokehold while shouting homophobic slurs. Several people are injured in the attack.
November 2, 2019: 28-year-old white supremacist, homophobe, and founder of the Canadian Nationalist Party Travis Patron, attacks two women in Regina, Saskatchewan after they refused to get into his car. Both women are hospitalized for injuries they sustained in the attack.
November 6, 2019: An Iranian refugee child walking to school in Thessaloniki, Greece is stopped by two men who cut his hand and tell him he’s not to attend school.
November 8, 2019: Around forty racists attacked a meeting of anti-blackface organisation Kick Out Zwarte Piet in Den Haag, Netherlands. They threw fireworks, destroyed cars parked outside and tried to batter their way inside of the meeting place, which the KOZP activists had luckily managed to barricade, which meant that no one got physically harmed.
November 8, 2019: Hundreds of far-right protesters clashed with filmgoers and police at the Georgian premiere of And Then We Danced. Set and filmed in Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi, And Then We Danced is the country’s first LGBT+ film, starring a gay dancer who is coming to terms with his sexuality. Several hundred protesters attempte to storm the theatre to stop the film being shown. Riot police were deployed to protect the venue as anti-gay activists threw rocks and firecrackers. They were heard chanting “Long live Georgia!” and “Shame!” at filmgoers while an Orthodox priest recited prayers over a burning Pride flag. Local LGBT+ activist Ana Subeliani was among those injured during the protest. In a Facebook post she claimed “police did nothing” as she and her friends “were severely beaten and threatened.” Images of her bleeding and in an ambulance circulated on social media.
November 8, 2019: A man swinging a machete chases two other men into an apartment lobby in the Washington D.C. NoMa neighborhood in what police are describing as an antigay hate crime.
November 9, 2019: Far-right hooligans returning from a football game attack a memorial event for Kristallnacht in Arnstadt, Germany, verbally and physically assaulting participants.
November 10, 2019: 56-year-old John Corbin, an American libertarian extremist and member of the pro-confederate/white supremacist group League of the South now living in Chile, encounters a group protesting income inequality of the cost of living in Reñaca, Chile. Corbin responds by driving his truck through the crowd in an attempt to injure people, then getting out of his truck and shooting at protestors five times, injuring one. He is charged with attempted murder.
November 10, 2019: Two members of a nazi gang are arrested by police in Szczecin, Poland for plotting to commit a terrorist attack against a mosque. Police seize bomb-making materials and illegally-acquired firearms and ammunition in a raid on the home of one of the accused.
November 10, 2019: Proud Boys attacked a woman for criticizing the fascist group. Video showed the woman standing with her hands in her pockets speaking with the demonstrators. Someone then points the tip of small flag near the woman’s face and calls her a “bitch.” The woman swats the flag away from her face, grabbing it in the process—and someone standing outside of the camera frame punches her in the face. Bits of video taken during the fight show well-known Proud Boy supporter and professional MMA fighter Tara LaRosa pinning the woman to the ground. When the woman pinned under LaRosa says “I can’t breathe,” LaRosa responds, “I don’t care."
November 11, 2019: Two neonazis beat another neonazi in Bad Segeberg, Germany badly enough that he is hospitalized for his injuries.
November 11, 2019: A gang of teenagers, one wearing a ski mask, attacks two Orthodox Jewish boys in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, hitting both in the head before running away.
November 12, 2019: Twelve people have been arrested in Italy for allegedly planning an attack on a mosque in Colle Val d'Elsa in Siena, Tuscany. In searches of a number of houses in Colle Val d'Elsa, neighboring districts, and provinces, police found many weapons, explosives, and Nazi symbols. The suspects were allegedly planning to blow up a pipeline which went under the mosque.
November 14, 2019: A mob attacks a trans Ugandan refugee in broad daylight at a Kenyan camp, slicing his neck, punching him and then pulling on his genitals. The man, who wishes to be anonymous due to threats for being trans, has since received treatment from a “rural clinic” and is in stable condition. He explained how his “life is in danger” in the camp and is fearful not only for himself, but other queer refugees. It was the latest incident in a spectre of violence against queer Ugandans, one where the landlocked country’s anti-LGBT laws have forced countless people to seek asylum in Kenya.
November 14, 2019: 24-year-old Benjamin Casillas-Rocha approaches four men in the parking lot of a downtown Denver CO. mosque brandishing an AK-47. He points the weapon at the four men but runs away before firing. Police arrest him and confiscate what turns out to be an airsoft rifle.
November 14, 2019: 49-year-old Eric S. Pippin holds a person at gunpoint in Sprinfield, IL. while abusing them with racial slurs and threatening to kill them. when police arrive, Pippin threatened the officers, who subdued him.
November 15, 2019: A 16-year-old girl in Gainesville, GA. is arrested after police uncover her plans to commit a mass murder at a historically-black church. Police recovered her written plans for the attack along with “substantial evidence” of her racism.
November 16, 2019: In Schöningen, Germany a group of racists used a pellet gun to fire on a group of refugees from Ivory Coast, including a 5-month old baby. Two passers-by who wanted to help the victims also came under fire. The shots were fired on Saturday evening from a balcony of a multi-family house, as police announced. The victims were luckily unhurt. Police arrested four drunken German suspects aged between 29 and 52 years.
November 16, 2019: Neonazis attack antifascists in Bonn, Germany, who were returning by train from a counter-demonstration against nazis in Remagen.
November 19, 2019: Richard Tobin, a white supremacist and recruiter for The Base, is arrested and charged with various crimes after recruiting people to vandalize synagogues and sitting in the parking lot of a New Jersey shopping mall armed with a machete, intent on attacking as many African-Americans as possible.
November 20, 2019: A 29-year-old Orthodox Jewish man is walking to his Monsey, NY synagogue when assailants attack him from behind, beating him and stabbing him multiple times.
November 22, 2019: 21-year-old Dazjuan Starr is waiting for a subway in the Bronx when another man accosts him, calls him a homophobic slur, hits him with a hammer, and then throws him off the subway platform on to the tracks. Starr is hospitalized for injuries for his face and head. A 28-year-old man and woman aged 25, suspected of planning a terror attack on London Pride have been arrested by police in Luton, UK. They were planning a crude strike with a car and knives at the mass rally.
PART ONE (JANUARY-JUNE 2019: https://antifainternational.tumblr.com/post/182479289794/2019-a-timeline-of-fascist-and-extreme-right
