Bellingcat Challenge #72 "Fascist Echoes" Writeup
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Challenge
Bellingcat Challenge #72 “Fascist Echoes”
On what date did the new legislation come into force? And what is the English name of the historic political movement that used this symbol?
Solution
The Bellingcat Monitoring Glossary identified the symbol as the Cross of the Archangel Michael and the historic political movement that used it as the Iron Guard. The same page identified the incident as the 2019 Christchurch terror attacks.
I searched for new law 2019 Christchurch terror attacks and found on the Firearms Safety Authority’s page that the new legislation came into force on 12 April 2019.
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12/04/2019 Iron Guard