Nordic Resistance Movement

{{Short description|Pan-Nordic neo-Nazi movement}} {{distinguish|Norwegian resistance movement}} {{Pp-pc}} {{Expand Swedish|topic=gov|Nordiska motståndsrörelsen|date=April 2020}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}} {{Infobox militant organization | name = Nordic Resistance Movement | logo = 200px | logo_size = | caption = Insignia, a ''Tiwaz rune'' in an Ingwaz rune on green<ref name="NRM_logo">{{Cite web |url=https://www.nordfront.se/varfor-inte-den-blagula-fanan.smr |title=Nationaldagsreflektion: Vilken fana ska vi samlas under? |last=Holmqvist |first=Simon |date=6 June 2017 |website=www.nordfront.se |language=sv-SE |access-date=5 April 2018}}</ref> | size = c. 2019 150 to 300 (Sweden) 200 to 400 (Finland) Several dozen (Norway, Denmark, Iceland)<ref>{{cite web|title=Mapping the Far Right|url=http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/stockholm/19155.pdf|website=Friedrich Ebert Foundation|date=3 July 2022|page=4}}</ref> | leader = Fredrik Vejdeland<ref>{{cite web |url=https://expo.se/kommentar/det-sjunkande-skeppet-nmr-far-ny-kapten/ |title=Det sjunkande skeppet NMR får ny kapten |date=29 February 2024}}</ref> (SWE) Tommy Olsen (NOR)<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.populismstudies.org/nmr-a-nordic-neo-nazi-organization-with-aims-of-establishing-totalitarian-rule-across-scandinavia/ |title=NMR: A Nordic neo-Nazi organization with aims of establishing totalitarian rule across Scandinavia |last=Kenes |first=Bulent|website=European Center for Populism Studies |date=28 April 2021 |access-date=29 September 2022 |quote=Tommy Olsen assumed leadership after Forwald left to join Klas Lund's Nordic Strength in 2019...Led by Ríkharður Leó Magnússon, NMR Iceland held its first demonstration in Reykjavik in September 2019.}}</ref> Antti Niemi (FIN) Joakim Johansen<ref name=Nyheder/> (DEN) Ríkharður Leó Magnússon (ISL) | founder = Klas Lund (SWE) Haakon Forwald (NOR) {{ill|Esa Henrik Holappa|fi|Esa Henrik Holappa}} (FIN) | position = Far-right<ref name="Upchurch 2021">{{cite journal |author-last=Upchurch |author-first=H. E. |date=22 December 2021 |url=https://ctc.usma.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/CTC-SENTINEL-102021.pdf |title=The Iron March Forum and the Evolution of the "Skull Mask" Neo-Fascist Network |url-status=live |editor1-last=Cruickshank |editor1-first=Paul |editor2-last=Hummel |editor2-first=Kristina |journal=CTC Sentinel |volume=14 |issue=10 |pages=27–37 |publisher=Combating Terrorism Center |location=West Point, New York |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211227044425/https://ctc.usma.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/CTC-SENTINEL-102021.pdf |archive-date=27 December 2021 |access-date=19 January 2022|quote=Finally, the Nordic Resistance Movement also has a long history with O9A that predates its ties to Iron March. Haakon Forwald, head of the Norwegian branch from 2010 to 2019, was a devotee of a Scandinavian O9A current variously known as the Misanthropic Luciferian Order, the Temple of Black Light, and Current 218. The magazine of the Finnish branch of the Nordic Resistance Movement featured articles on O9A spiritual practices and on the work of Kerry Bolton of the Black Order}}</ref> | foundation = 1997 (Sweden) 1998 (Norway) 2006 or 2007 (Finland) 2016 (Iceland) 2017 (Denmark) | ideology = {{ubl|class=nowrap| |Anti-LGBT<ref>{{cite web|url=http://norwaytoday.info/news/neo-nazi-organization-march-fredrikstad/|title=Neo-Nazi organization to march in Fredrikstad - Norway Today|date=30 April 2017|access-date=4 April 2018|archive-date=3 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191203011535/https://norwaytoday.info/news/neo-nazi-organization-march-fredrikstad/|language=English}}</ref> |Authoritarianism<ref>{{cite news |title=Extremister hot mot individer |url=https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/vasternorrland/extremister-hot-mot-individer |newspaper=SVT Nyheter |date=7 July 2009 |publisher=Sveriges Television |access-date=7 July 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308145533/https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/vasternorrland/extremister-hot-mot-individer |archive-date=8 March 2021 |location=Västernorrland County |language=Swedish |url-status=live }}</ref> |Hard Euroscepticism<ref>{{cite web |title=How the expansion of the European Union has facilitated the rise of the New Right in Austria and the United Kingdom. |url=https://thesydneytory.com/2017/06/18/how-the-expansion-of-the-european-union-has-facilitated-the-rise-of-the-new-right-in-austria-and-the-united-kingdom/ |website=thesydneytory.com |publisher=The Sydney Tory |access-date=28 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190403073100/https://thesydneytory.com/2017/06/18/how-the-expansion-of-the-european-union-has-facilitated-the-rise-of-the-new-right-in-austria-and-the-united-kingdom/ |archive-date=3 April 2019 |language=English }}</ref> |Neo-Nazism{{refn|<ref name="Upchurch 2021"/><ref name="aftonbladet">{{cite web |title=Nazister döms till fängelse för bombdåden i Göteborg |url=http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/7rx2w/nazister-doms-till-fangelse-for-bombdaden-i-goteborg |website=aftonbladet.se |date=7 July 2017 |publisher=Aftonbladet |access-date=22 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210625014405/https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/7rx2w/nazister-doms-till-fangelse-for-bombdaden-i-goteborg |archive-date=25 June 2021 |location=Gothenburg |language=Swedish |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="gp">{{cite web |title=Nazister vill frikännas efter bombdomarna |url=http://www.gp.se/nyheter/g%C3%B6teborg/nazister-vill-frik%C3%A4nnas-efter-bombdomarna-1.4485356 |website=gp.se |date=28 July 2017 |publisher=Göteborgs-Posten |access-date=28 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224194244/https://www.gp.se/nyheter/g%C3%B6teborg/nazister-vill-frik%C3%A4nnas-efter-bombdomarna-1.4485356 |archive-date=24 February 2021 |location=Gothenburg |language=Swedish |url-status=live}}</ref>}} |'''Factions:'''{{refn|<ref name=occult>{{cite web|url=https://www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/english/news-and-events/right-now/2020/the-case-against-the-nordic-resistance-movement.html|title=The case against the Nordic Resistance Movement in Finland: an overview and some explanations|publisher=University of Oslo Center for Research on Extremism |access-date=2 November 2020 | quote=It is notable however, that some NRM activists have reasoned that only radical measures will be effective post-ban, thus coming to support e.g. the accelerationist model of activity. Certain members of the group have also appeared as contributors to publications that promote esoteric forms of neo-Nazism. A corresponding shift towards a more "cultic" direction has also been observed in the United Kingdom after the banning of the National Action (NA).}}</ref><ref name=occult2>{{cite web|url=https://ctc.usma.edu/the-iron-march-forum-and-the-evolution-of-the-skull-mask-neo-fascist-network/|title=The Iron March Forum and the Evolution of the "Skull Mask" Neo-Fascist Network|date=22 December 2021|publisher=Combating Terrorism Center at West Point|access-date=December 28, 2021|quote=Finally, the Nordic Resistance Movement also has a long history with O9A that predates its ties to Iron March. Haakon Forwald, head of the Norwegian branch from 2010 to 2019, was a devotee of a Scandinavian O9A current variously known as the Misanthropic Luciferian Order, the Temple of Black Light, and Current 218. The magazine of the Finnish branch of the Nordic Resistance Movement featured articles on O9A spiritual practices and on the work of Kerry Bolton of the Black Order.|archive-date=28 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211228070615/https://ctc.usma.edu/the-iron-march-forum-and-the-evolution-of-the-skull-mask-neo-fascist-network/}}</ref><ref name=middlebury>{{Cite news|url=https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/academics/centers-initiatives/ctec/ctec-publications/dangerous-organizations-and-bad-actors-nordic|title=Dangerous Organizations and Bad Actors: Nordic Resistance Movement|work=Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey|date=19 November 2022|quote=Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM) is a neofascist and accelerationist organization with a strong propensity for violence...NRM is a neofascist organization with a propensity towards accelerationist tactics. While upholding traditional facets of neofascism, including the goal of establishing a white Nordic ethnostate, NRM's history also points to widespread support for other openly accelerationist organizations and simultaneous endorsements from explicitly accelerationist organizations and networks like the Iron March forum...NRM publicly supports a number of openly militant accelerationist organizations, including Atomwaffen Division (AWD) and Russian Imperial Movement (RIM).}}</ref>}} |Accelerationism |Esoteric Nazism }} | status = {{plainlist| * Active }} | headquarters = | crimes = Neo-Nazi attack in Kärrtorp 2013 Jyväskylä library stabbing 2016 Helsinki Asema-aukio assault<ref name="mölsä">Mölsä, Ari: [http://yle.fi/uutiset/3-9379662 Asema-aukion hyppypotku: 2 vuotta vankeutta törkeästä pahoinpitelystä], YLE 30 December 2016. Accessed on 30 December 2016.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thelocal.se/20141212/neo-nazi-clashes-in-sweden-one-year-on|title=Neo-Nazi clashes in Sweden: One year on|date=12 December 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finland-news/domestic/5219-several-arrested-following-jyvaeskylae-library-stabbing.html|title=Several arrested following Jyväskylä library stabbing|last=HT|website=Helsinki Times|access-date=2016-06-14}}</ref> | allies = {{flagicon image|}} Atomwaffen Division<ref name=middlebury/> {{flagicon image|Flag of the Azov Battalion.svg}} Azov Battalion<ref name=IKEA/> {{flagicon image|Flag of CasaPound.svg}} CasaPound {{flagicon image|Meandros flag.svg}} Golden Dawn {{flagicon image|Flag of National Action.svg}} National Action {{flagicon image|Flag of the Order of Nine Angles.svg}} Order of Nine Angles<ref name="Upchurch 2021"/> {{flagicon image|Flag of the Russian Imperial Legion.svg}} Russian Imperial Movement<ref>{{cite web|url=https://icct.nl/publication/russian-imperial-movement-rim-and-its-links-transnational-white-supremacist-extremist|title=The Russian Imperial Movement (RIM) and its Links to the Transnational White Supremacist Extremist Movement|website=ICCT|publisher=International Centre for Counter-Terrorism|date=2020|access-date=2025-06-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240324143228/https://icct.nl/publication/russian-imperial-movement-rim-and-its-links-transnational-white-supremacist-extremist|archive-date=2024-03-24}}</ref> {{flagicon image|Flag of The III. Path.svg}} Third Way<ref name=IKEA /> | predecessor = White Aryan Resistance | international = | newspaper = Musta Kivi, Kansallinen Vastarinta (FIN) Nationellt Motstånd (SWE) | successor = Atomwaffen Division Finland (Finland) Kohti Vapautta! (Finland) Nordic Strength | flag = 200px|left | website = {{URL|motståndsrörelsen.se}} (Swedish website) | designated_as_terror_group_by = {{plainlist| *{{flag|United States}}<ref>{{Cite news |last=Goldman |first=Adam |date=2024-06-14 |title=U.S. Designates Largest Neo-Nazi Group in Sweden as Terrorist Organization |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/14/us/politics/us-sweden-neo-nazi-group-terrorists.html |access-date=2024-06-16 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |oclc=1645522}}</ref> }} }} {{Neo-Nazism sidebar|organizations}} The '''Nordic Resistance Movement'''{{refn|group=nb| {{langx|sv|Nordiska motståndsrörelsen, NMR}}; Norwegian: {{langx|nb|Nordiske motstandsbevegelsen, NMB}}; {{langx|nn|Nordiske motstandsrørsla}} NMR; {{langx|fi|Pohjoismainen Vastarintaliike, PVL}}; {{langx|is|Norræna mótstöðuhreyfingin}}, NMH; {{langx|da|Den nordiske modstandsbevægelse, NMB}}}} is a pan-Nordic<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Askanius |first=Tina |date=29 April 2021 |title=Women in the Nordic Resistance Movement and their online media practices: between internalised misogyny and "embedded feminism" |journal=Feminist Media Studies |volume=22 |issue=7 |pages=1763–1780 |doi=10.1080/14680777.2021.1916772 |issn=1468-0777 |quote=...the Nordic Resistance Movement—a pan-Nordic organisation with chapters in Finland, Denmark, Norway and Iceland. |doi-access=free}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Fontaine |first=Andie Sophia |date=4 August 2016 |title=Swedish Neo-Nazis Come To Iceland, Seeking Recruits |work=The Reykjavík Grapevine |url=https://grapevine.is/news/2016/08/04/swedish-neo-nazis-come-to-iceland-seeking-recruits/ |access-date=15 May 2021 |quote=...the NRM, which seeks to form a pan-Nordic state... |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160806160102/https://grapevine.is/news/2016/08/04/swedish-neo-nazis-come-to-iceland-seeking-recruits/ |archive-date=6 August 2016}}</ref> neo-Nazi<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Askanius |first=Tina |date=1 February 2021|title=On Frogs, Monkeys, and Execution Memes: Exploring the Humor-Hate Nexus at the Intersection of Neo-Nazi and Alt-Right Movements in Sweden |journal=Television & New Media |language=en |volume=22 |issue=2 |pages=147–165 |doi=10.1177/1527476420982234 |issn=1527-4764 |quote=...the neo-Nazi organization the Nordic Resistance Movement in Sweden... |doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=30 November 2017 |title=Finnish court bans neo-Nazi group |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-finland-farright-court/finnish-court-bans-neo-nazi-group-idUSKBN1DU22K |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171130165801/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-finland-farright-court/finnish-court-bans-neo-nazi-group-idUSKBN1DU22K |archive-date=30 November 2017 |access-date=15 May 2021 |quote=A Finnish court banned neo-Nazi group the Nordic Resistance Movement (PVL) on Thursday...}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last1=Harkov |first1=Lahav |last2=Joffre |first2=Tzvi |date=5 October 2020 |title=Sweden may ban 'racist organizations' after neo-Nazi Yom Kippur campaign |work=The Jerusalem Post |url=https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/sweden-may-ban-racist-organizations-after-neo-nazi-yom-kippur-campaign-644589 |access-date=15 May 2021 |quote=The Nordic Resistance Movement, a neo-Nazi group, targeted Jews in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Iceland with antisemitic harassment during the week before Yom Kippur.}}</ref> movement in the Nordic countries and a political party in Sweden. Besides Sweden, it is established in Norway, Denmark and Iceland, and formerly in Finland before it was banned in 2019. Terrorism expert Magnus Ranstorp has described the NRM as a terrorist organization due to their aim of abolishing democracy along with their paramilitary activities and weapons caches.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Ankersen |first=Dag |date=4 May 2017 |title=Terrorforskare: "NMR definitivt en terrorgrupp" |language=sv |trans-title=Terrorist researcher: "NMR definitely a terrorist group" |work=ETC |url=https://www.etc.se/inrikes/terrorforskare-nmr-definitivt-en-terrorgrupp |url-status=live |access-date=23 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170504134148/https://www.etc.se/inrikes/terrorforskare-nmr-definitivt-en-terrorgrupp |archive-date=4 May 2017}}</ref> In 2022, some members of the United States Congress began calling for the organization to be added to the United States Department of State list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-extremism-slotkin-idUSKBN2BW1KQ |title=Biden administration pressed by lawmaker to label white supremacists overseas as terrorists |date=9 March 2022 |publisher=Reuters}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://forward.com/fast-forward/433244/neo-nazi-terrorist-congress-max-rose/ |title=Neo-Nazis Must Go On Terror Blacklist, House Democrats Demand |date=9 March 2022 |publisher=The Forward}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Solberg |first=Trine |date=October 19, 2019 |title=Amerikanske demokrater vil ha Den nordiske motstandsbevegelsen på terrorliste |trans-title=American Democrats want the Nordic Resistance Movement on the terrorist list |language=Norwegian |work=Nettavisen |url=https://www.nettavisen.no/nyheter/amerikanske-demokrater-vil-ha-den-nordiske-motstandsbevegelsen-pa-terrorliste/s/12-95-3423864628 |access-date=September 28, 2021}}</ref> On 14 June 2024, the United States Department of State designated NRM and its leaders as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGT).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actions/20240614|title=Counter Terrorism Designations; West Bank-related Designation; Issuance of Amended Frequently Asked Questions|date=14 June 2024|publisher=Office of Foreign Assets Control}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.state.gov/terrorist-designations-of-nordic-resistance-movement-and-three-leaders/|work=state.gov|title=Terrorist Designations of Nordic Resistance Movement and Three Leaders|date=14 June 2024|quote=Today, the Department of State is designating Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM) as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13224, as amended.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Bergkvist |first=Frida |title=USA terrorstämplar nazistiska NMR |website=Dagens Nyheter |date=2024-06-14 |url=https://www.dn.se/varlden/usa-terrorstamplar-nazistiska-nmr/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240614195156/https://www.dn.se/varlden/usa-terrorstamplar-nazistiska-nmr/ |archive-date=2024-06-14 |url-status=live |language=sv |access-date=2024-06-14}}</ref>

== Formation and structure == In December 1997, Klas Lund and some other former members of the White Aryan Resistance ({{langx|sv|Vitt Ariskt Motstånd}}, also known as VAM) – a militant neo-Nazi network active from 1991 to 1993 – were released from prison after being convicted of robberies, bombings and killings, among other things.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/gun-britts-son-blev-offer-for-nazistvaldet/ |title=Gun-Britts son blev offer för nazistvåldet |date=21 December 2013 |language=sv |trans-title= |publisher=Expressen}}</ref> They formed the '''Swedish Resistance Movement''' ({{lang|sv|Svenska Motståndsrörelsen}} or SMR) together with individuals working with the neo-Nazi magazine ''Folktribunen'' and members of {{lang|sv|Nationell Ungdom}} ("National Youth"), a neofascist and openly racist organisation known for the murder of the anarchist Björn Söderberg.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://wwwc.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/0002/11/nazmord.html |title=Omfattande bevis mot nazisterna |language=sv |trans-title= |last1=Aschberg |first1=Richard |last2=Wallin |first2=Ulf |name-list-style=amp |date=11 February 2000 |work=aftonbladet.se |publisher=Aftonbladet |access-date=25 January 2011}}</ref><ref name="Expofakta">{{cite news |title=Fakta Sv. Motståndsrörelsen/Nationell Ungdom |url=http://expo.se/research_smr.html |publisher=Expo |language=sv |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071017231132/http://expo.se/research_smr.html |archive-date=17 October 2007 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Olsson |first=Daniel |date=2017-09-30 |title=Från Vitt ariskt motstånd till Nordiska motståndsrörelsen |url=https://www.expressen.se/gt/fran-vitt-ariskt-motstand-till-nordiska-motstandsrorelsen/ |access-date=2024-11-22 |website=www.expressen.se |language=sv}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.val.se/det_svenska_valsystemet/partier/lista_registrerade_partibeteckningar/|title=Registrerade partibeteckningar|website=www.val.se|access-date=1 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160517023121/http://www.val.se/det_svenska_valsystemet/partier/lista_registrerade_partibeteckningar/|archive-date=17 May 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.svd.se/nyheter/stockholm/nazisters-vapengomma-sprangd_961055.svd|title=Nazisters vapengömma sprängd|date=11 March 2008|work=Svenska Dagbladet|language=sv|access-date=30 May 2013}}</ref>

In 2016, the Nordic Resistance Movement was formed, with separate affiliates in Sweden, Finland, and Norway; a Danish affiliate was later disbanded. The Nordic Resistance Movement advocates an immediate stop to what they call mass immigration to the Scandinavian countries, and the repatriation of people who are not of Northern European or of closely related descent. It also advocates Nordic self-sufficiency and withdrawal from the European Union.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.frihetskamp.no/information-in-english/|title=Information in English|access-date=1 October 2017}}</ref>

On 28 February 2018, ''The Verge'' reported that Discord had shut down a number of neo-Nazi and alt-right servers, including that of the Nordic Resistance Movement, from their private chat platform for abuse of their Terms of Service.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Liao |first=Shannon |date=2018-02-28 |title=Discord shuts down more neo-Nazi, alt-right servers |url=https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/28/17062554/discord-alt-right-neo-nazi-white-supremacy-atomwaffen#pt0-606488 |access-date=2025-04-29 |website=The Verge |language=en-US}}</ref>

In 2024, the NRM was designated a terrorist organization by the United States, which weakened the group by freezing its American assets and blocking it from the American financial system. The group is also weakened by a change in leadership and an ageing membership.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bryant |first=Miranda |date=2025-03-30 |title='It is about vulnerable guys': violent far-right groups in Sweden recruit boys as young as 10 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/30/violent-far-right-groups-sweden-recruit-boys-trump-musk-manosphere |access-date=2025-04-10 |work=The Observer |language=en-GB |issn=0029-7712}}</ref>

==Ideology== thumb|right|250px|Nordic Resistance Movement demonstration The aim of Nordic Resistance Movement is to establish a Pan-Nordic neo-Nazi republic "consisting of the Nordic countries Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Iceland and possibly even the Baltic countries".<ref name=irredentism>{{Cite web |url=https://www.inblick.se/nyheter/2018/01/18/nordiska-motstandsrorelsen-delade-ut-500-000-flygblad |title=Nordiska motståndsrörelsen delade ut 500 000 flygblad |website=Inblick.se |access-date=21 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201116030607/https://www.inblick.se/nyheter/2018/01/18/nordiska-motstandsrorelsen-delade-ut-500-000-flygblad |archive-date=16 November 2020 }}</ref>

The organization says its struggle will require bloodshed:<ref>{{cite news|title=Exklusiv intervju med första avhopparen från nazistgruppen Svenska motståndsrörelsen|url=http://adaktusson.blog.mtgnewmedia.se/2009/05/12/exklusiv-intervju-med-forsta-avhopparen-fran-nazistgruppen-svenska-motstandsrorelsen/|publisher=Adaktusson's blogg|language=sv|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090627025411/http://adaktusson.blog.mtgnewmedia.se/2009/05/12/exklusiv-intervju-med-forsta-avhopparen-fran-nazistgruppen-svenska-motstandsrorelsen/|archive-date=27 June 2009}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Vitt oljud - Nordiskt mörker |url=http://vittoljud.levandehistoria.se/art_vitmakt/02_vitmakt.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080922010049/http://vittoljud.levandehistoria.se/art_vitmakt/02_vitmakt.html |archive-date=2008-09-22 |access-date=2026-02-13 |website=vittoljud.levandehistoria.se}}</ref>

{{Blockquote|text=No man can join the Resistance Movement if he cannot or is not willing to defend himself, his organization, or his comrades with violence.... Weaklings and cowards have no place with us. No one should be able to evade their male duty. The only terrible or shameful thing about young Swedes injuring or killing strangers and enemies is that all other Swedes do not support them when the mass media starts its smear campaigns.|title=Excerpt from the NRM's newspaper ''Folktribunen''}}

The NRM has praised figures such as Adolf Hitler,<ref name="PatriotHitler">{{Cite web |url=http://patriot.nu/artikel.asp/?artikelID=1244 |title=Ödets budbärare|language=sv|trans-title=The messenger of fate|website=Patriot.nu|first=Klas|last=Lund|date=6 February 2009|url-status=deviated|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120302173830/http://patriot.nu/artikel.asp/?artikelID=1244 |archive-date=2 March 2012 }}</ref> Corneliu Codreanu,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Corneliu Codreanu |url=https://nordfront.se/corneliu-codreanu.smr |access-date=2026-02-13 |website=nordfront.se}}</ref> Hugo Chávez,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hugo Chávez – en folkets man |url=https://nordfront.se/hugo-chavez-dod-2.smr |access-date=2026-02-13 |website=nordfront.se}}</ref> Savitri Devi,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Avatarens prästinna |url=https://nordfront.se/avatarens-prastinna.smr |access-date=2026-02-13 |website=nordfront.se}}</ref> George Lincoln Rockwell<ref>{{Cite web |title=George Lincoln Rockwell |url=https://nordfront.se/george-lincoln-rockwell.smr |access-date=2026-02-13 |website=nordfront.se}}</ref> and Robert Jay Mathews<ref>{{Cite web |title=30 år sedan Robert Jay Mathews dog |url=https://nordfront.se/30-ar-sedan-robert-jay-mathews-dog.smr |access-date=2026-02-13 |website=nordfront.se}}</ref> in their publications. Their main tactics are distributing leaflets and making public speeches in inner-city areas in support of neo-Nazism, denouncing immigration. They also publish the ''Nationellt Motstånd'' magazine.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Nationellt motstånd: trohet, ära, styrka.|date=29 December 2017|journal=Nationellt Motstånd: Trohet, ära, Styrka.|oclc = 185269901}}</ref> NRM-affiliated far-right activist Tobias Bratt created the 2017 neo-Nazi propaganda film ''Europa: The Last Battle''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Emmery |first=Rien |date=2024-10-28 |title=Beruchte neonazi-documentaire blijft nieuwe fans bereiken |trans-title=Infamous neo-Nazi documentary continues to reach new fans |url=https://www.knack.be/nieuws/belgie/maatschappij/beruchte-neonazi-documentaire-blijft-nieuwe-fans-bereiken/ |access-date=2025-01-23 |website=Knack |language=nl-BE}}</ref><ref name="Hope not Hate-2021">{{Cite web |date=13 October 2021 |title=Antisemitism in the Digital Age: Online Antisemitic Hate, Holocaust Denial, Conspiracy Ideologies and Terrorism in Europe |url=https://hopenothate.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/google-report-2021-10-v3.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231116055750/https://hopenothate.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/google-report-2021-10-v3.pdf |archive-date=November 16, 2023 |access-date=September 23, 2023 |website=Hope not Hate |page=34}}</ref>

==Sweden== The '''Nordic Resistance Movement '''was founded by Klas Lund. In 2020, its leader was Simon Lindberg, and its political wing was managed by {{ill|Pär Öberg|sv}}. It is known for its opposition to non-white immigration to Sweden.<ref>{{cite news|title=Adaktusson fortsätter granskningen av nazisterna i Svenska motståndsrörelsen |url=http://www.tv8.se/adaktusson/adaktusson-fortsaetter-granskningen-av-nazisterna-i-svenska-motstandsroerelsen |publisher=TV8 |language=sv |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090928111207/http://www.tv8.se/adaktusson/adaktusson-fortsaetter-granskningen-av-nazisterna-i-svenska-motstandsroerelsen |archive-date=28 September 2009}}</ref> The NRM is considered a central actor in Sweden's white power movement.<ref name="SÄPOex">{{cite news |title=Politiskt extremism - Grupper inom vit makt-miljön |url=http://www.sakerhetspolisen.se/forfattningsskydd/politiskextremism/vitmaktmiljon/grupper.4.3b063add1101207dd46800055810.html |publisher=Swedish Security Service |language=sv |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100814153448/http://www.sakerhetspolisen.se/forfattningsskydd/politiskextremism/vitmaktmiljon/grupper.4.3b063add1101207dd46800055810.html |archive-date=14 August 2010}}</ref> In November 2003 the Swedish Security Service raided homes of leading members, among them Lund, who was later sentenced to prison for illegal possession of firearms.<ref>{{cite news |author=Stefan Lisinski |author2=Lasse Wierup |url=https://www.dn.se/nyheter/sverige/nazistledare-gripen-for-vapenbrott/|title=Nazistledare gripen för vapenbrott |publisher=DN |date=25 November 2003 |language=sv}}</ref>

In May 2006, the Nordic Resistance Movement announced that the National Youth organisation and all its activities and members had been merged with the SRM.<ref name="ExpoNU">{{Cite web |url=http://expo.se/2003/fakta-sv-motstandsrorelsen---nationell-ungdom_867.html |title=Fakta Sv. Motståndsrörelsen / Nationell Ungdom |website=expo.se |language=sv |access-date=1 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171001122630/http://expo.se/2003/fakta-sv-motstandsrorelsen---nationell-ungdom_867.html |archive-date=1 October 2017 }}</ref> In December 2013, armed NRM members attacked an anti-racist demonstration in Stockholm which resulted in riots and clashes. Many were arrested afterwards.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thelocal.se/20141212/neo-nazi-clashes-in-sweden-one-year-on|title=Neo-Nazi clashes in Sweden: One year on|newspaper=The Local Sweden |date=12 December 2014}}</ref> In the 2014 Swedish election, two members of the NRM were elected to Sweden Democrats seats in the municipal councils in Ludvika and Borlänge. In what has been described as a "coup"<ref name="SVDkupp">{{Cite news |url=https://www.svd.se/kupp-ger-nazister-sd-mandat |title=Kupp ger nazister SD-mandat |agency=TT |newspaper=Svenska Dagbladet |access-date=30 December 2017 |language=sv}}</ref> their names were added to Sweden Democrats' ballots that were open for additions.<ref name="ABkupp">{{Cite news |url=https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article19581623.ab |title=Nazist kuppar in sig på SD-mandat i Ludvika |work=Aftonbladet |access-date=30 December 2017}}</ref><ref name="EXkupp">{{Cite news |url=https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/nazist-tar-plats-i-borlanges-fullmaktige/ |title=Nazist tar plats i Borlänges kommunfullmäktige |work=Expressen |access-date=30 December 2017 |language=sv}}</ref> Late in 2015, the NRM was registered as a political party in Sweden, headed by the organization's spokesman, Pär Öberg.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Radicalization, polarization and xenophobia: the growing influence of the Nordic Resistance Movement in Sweden and Finland |url=http://www.esisc.org/publications/briefings/radicalization-polarization-and-xenophobia-the-growing-influence-of-the-nordic-resistance-movement-in-sweden-and-finland |access-date=2024-11-22 |website=www.esisc.org}}</ref><ref>http://kungalvsposten.se/nyheter/nazistparti-vill-ta-plats-i-kungalv/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191203100404/https://kungalvsposten.se/nyheter/nazistparti-vill-ta-plats-i-kungalv/ |date=3 December 2019 }} "The Nazi party, the Nordic Resistance Movement; NRM, will take part in the municipal elections in Kungälv next autumn"</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2017-06-30 |title=Forskare: "Nordiska motståndsrörelsen är en våldsam sekt" |url=https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/forskare-nordiska-motstandsrorelsen-ar-en-valdsam-sekt |access-date=2024-11-22 |work=SVT Nyheter |language=sv}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-04-21 |title=Nazister kommer till Almedalen |url=https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/vRlzw/nazister-kommer-till-almedalen |access-date=2024-11-22 |website=Aftonbladet |language=sv}}</ref>

Three men with ties to Swedish NRM were sentenced to prison for respectively eight and a half years, five years, and one and a half years on 7 July 2017 for three bombings in Gothenburg which took place in November 2016 and January 2017, one targeted at the trade union movement through the bombing of the syndicalist Syndikalistiskt Forum infoshop, echoing the 1999 Nazi murder of syndicalist Björn Söderberg and the subsequent firebombing of the SAC's industrial secretariat and museum located in Joe Hill's ancestral home.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-10-11 |title=20 år sedan mordet på Björn Söderberg – och ett förändrat Sverige |url=https://www.arbetaren.se/2019/10/11/20-ar-sedan-mordet-pa-bjorn-soderberg-och-ett-forandrat-sverige/ |access-date=2025-04-21 |website=Arbetaren |language=sv-SE}}</ref> One person received life-threatening injuries at the bombing of a refugee centre in Västra Frölunda.<ref name="aftonbladet">{{cite web |title=Nazister döms till fängelse för bombdåden i Göteborg |url=http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/7rx2w/nazister-doms-till-fangelse-for-bombdaden-i-goteborg |website=aftonbladet.se |date=7 July 2017 |publisher=Aftonbladet |access-date=22 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210625014405/https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/7rx2w/nazister-doms-till-fangelse-for-bombdaden-i-goteborg |archive-date=25 June 2021 |location=Gothenburg |language=Swedish |url-status=live}}</ref> They were convicted of two of the bombings.<ref name="gp">{{cite web |title=Nazister vill frikännas efter bombdomarna |url=http://www.gp.se/nyheter/g%C3%B6teborg/nazister-vill-frik%C3%A4nnas-efter-bombdomarna-1.4485356 |website=gp.se |date=28 July 2017 |publisher=Göteborgs-Posten |access-date=28 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224194244/https://www.gp.se/nyheter/g%C3%B6teborg/nazister-vill-frik%C3%A4nnas-efter-bombdomarna-1.4485356 |archive-date=24 February 2021 |location=Gothenburg |language=Swedish |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-09-22 |title=Nazisterna frikänns från ett av bombdåden i Göteborg |url=https://www.aftonbladet.se/a/mAJP1 |access-date=2023-07-12 |website=www.aftonbladet.se |language=sv}}</ref> The men were part of a group of Swedish and Finnish neo-Nazis who went to Russia to receive military training in firearms and explosives from the Russian Imperial Movement. Police also arrested a Russian man connected to the RIM and NRM and confiscated two weapon caches.<ref name="BBC News">{{cite web |date=7 April 2020 |title="За Рассею пострадать хочу". Почему в Швеции судят националиста из СССР |url=https://www.bbc.com/russian/features-51586850 |publisher=BBC News}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.state.gov/united-states-designates-russian-imperial-movement-and-leaders-as-global-terrorists/ |title=United States Designates Russian Imperial Movement and Leaders as Global Terrorists |date=7 April 2020 |publisher=US Department of State}}</ref>

On 30 September 2017, NRM staged a march with roughly 500 members taking part in Sweden's second largest city Göteborg, timed to coincide with the annual Göteborg Book Fair.<ref>[http://www.politico.eu/article/sweden-gothenburg-book-fair-literati-wrestles-with-far-right-response/ "Sweden's literati wrestle with the far right"], ''Politico Europe'', 29 September 2017, accessed 1 October 2017.</ref> Fighting broke out between NRM and counter-demonstrators. Twenty-two NRM members including the organisation's leader Simon Lindberg were arrested on suspicion of violent public disorder, and one counter-demonstrator was arrested on suspicion of attacking a police officer.<ref>[http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/8e1n1/23-anhallna-for-valdsamt-upplopp-efter-nazimarschen "NMR-ledaren Simon Lindberg anhållen efter nazimarschen"], ''Aftonbladet'', 1 October 2017, accessed 1 October 2017.</ref> Swedish Jews were outraged at the demonstration, which took place on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur and was originally planned to pass near a synagogue. The march was re-routed and shortened following a court ruling.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Strickland |first=Patrick |date=2017-09-26 |title=Anger as Swedish neo-Nazis prepare for Yom Kippur march |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2017/9/26/anger-as-swedish-neo-nazis-prepare-for-yom-kippur-march |access-date=2024-07-10 |work=Al Jazeera English}}</ref>

On 19 April 2018, fireworks were thrown at the U.S. embassy in Stockholm during a protest against the bombing of Syria. One NRM man was arrested.<ref name="local">{{cite news|url=https://www.thelocal.se/20180419/fireworks-thrown-at-stockholm-us-embassy-during-neo-nazi-protest|title=Fireworks thrown at Stockholm US embassy during neo-Nazi protest|newspaper=The Local Sweden |date=19 April 2018}}</ref> The same month a member was arrested for plotting to assassinate journalists. Police confiscated a shotgun from the man.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thelocal.se/20180811/swedish-nazi-arrested-for-planned-murder-of-journalists |url-access=subscription |title=Swedish Nazi arrested for planned murder of journalists|work=The Local |location=Sweden |date=11 August 2018}}</ref> On 6 July 2018, members of the NRM assaulted two pro-Israel activists in Gotland.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/neo-nazis-assault-two-pro-israel-activists-in-sweden/|title=Neo-Nazis assault two pro-Israel activists in Sweden|access-date=20 July 2018|archive-date=11 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191211165558/https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/neo-nazis-assault-two-pro-israel-activists-in-sweden/}}</ref><ref>[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-08/last-week-in-sweden-nazi-threat-stalks-bucolic-political-fest Nazi threat stalks bucolic swedish political fest], Bloomberg.com, 8 July 2018. Accessed 15 August 2018.</ref>

Swedish-Estonian NRM member Oskar Laas was deported to Estonia in 2021 as a threat to national security for his extremist views. Laas' father was a founder of the local department of the EKRE and took part in NRM demonstrations, as did the younger Laas with another Estonian friend. Laas had taken pictures with his friend in face masks holding the book Siege, and attended events of Blue Awakening and Atomwaffen Division in Estonia.<ref>{{cite book|title=Violent Extremism: a Nordic Outlook|date=27 June 2024 |editor1=Rostami, Amir|editor2=Edling, Christofer|publisher=Lexington Books|isbn=978-1-7936-3285-2|pages=48, 54}}</ref>

On 6 July 2022, during Almedalen Week, Ing-Marie Wieselgren died after being stabbed at Donners plats in Visby.<ref>{{cite news|title=Ing-Marie Wieselgren, 64, knivdödades i Visby|url=https://www.svd.se/a/XqKMKE/kvinna-knivhuggen-i-visby|newspaper=Svenska Dagbladet|date=6 July 2022|access-date=6 July 2022|issn=1101-2412|language=sv|first=Erik|last=Nilsson}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=6 July 2022|title=Ing-Marie Wieselgren, 64, knivmördades i Visby|url=https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/eE9z7K/ing-marie-wieselgren-64-knivmordades-i-visby|publisher=Aftonbladet|access-date=6 July 2022|last=Ericson|first=Adrian|language=sv}}</ref> The arrested perpetrator was a 33-year-old man who had previously participated in events organized by the NRM and had written for the neo-Nazi website ''Nordfront''.<ref>{{cite web|date=6 July 2022|title=Uppgifter: 33-årig nazist gripen för knivdådet i Almedalen|url=https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/5G18Xe/nazist-i-30-arsaldern-gripen-for-knivdadet-i-almedalen|author-last=Svensson|author-first=Olof|access-date=8 July 2022|work=Aftonbladet|language=sv}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=9 July 2022|title=32-åringen bodde i tält innan dådet – hade koll på offrets schema|url=https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/32-aringen-hade-koll-pa-offrets-schema-bodde-i-talt-innan-knivdadet|author-last=Wikén|author-first=Johan|access-date=9 July 2022|work=SVT Nyheter|language=sv}}</ref>

In May 2022, the Swedish police arrested a man from Falköping for possessing firearms and powerful explosives. The police allege the man plotted mass shooting and bombing. According to Vice News the man possessed material by NRM, Iron March and Atomwaffen Division.<ref>{{cite web|title=Swedish Police Say They Thwarted Neo-Nazi Bombing and Mass Murder Plot|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/sweden-neo-nazi-mass-murder-plot-arrest/|work=Vice News|date=22 July 2022 }}</ref>

In April 2024, the NRM attacked a Roma encampment and destroyed it, and later the same month they attacked an antifascist gathering, assaulting the attendants and throwing smoke bombs.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/04/25/sweden-new-nazi-violence-is-carefully-staged/|work=Freedom News|title=After Nazi attack, Swedish anarchist publisher says he will not be silenced|date=1 May 2024}}</ref> Three antifascists were beaten so badly they were hospitalized.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://uk.news.yahoo.com/news/masked-attackers-storm-anti-fascist-192653686.html|publisher=Yahoo News|title=Masked attackers storm anti-fascist event in Swede|date=1 May 2024}}</ref>

On 9 July 2025, the Swedish police came to arrest an NRM member in Östersunds for violent threats when he started shooting at the police. The police threw a stun grenade at him and subdued him. The police had previously confiscated a firearm cache from the man due to his association with the NRM.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/zAp0Gq/uppgifter-nmr-medlem-skot-mot-polis-i-ostersund|work=Aftonbladet|date=11 July 2025|title=Uppgifter: NMR-medlem sköt mot polis}}</ref>

The NRM organized a torch march held in memory of the murdered skinhead Daniel Wretström in December 2025. Some 200 people attended the event.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://eurojewcong.org/news/communities-news/sweden/neo-nazi-march-returns-to-sweden-sparking-political-outrage/ |title=Neo-Nazi march returns to Sweden sparking political outrage |website=European Jewish Congress |date=December 8, 2025 |access-date=March 1, 2026}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.svd.se/a/n1Rwvn/salemmarschen-kan-ateruppsta |title=Salemmarschen kan återuppstå: ”Ett test” |author=Tideman, Fredrik |date=2025-11-20 |website=Svenska Dagbladet |language=sv |access-date=2026-03-01}}</ref>

=== Election results === === Riksdag === {| class=wikitable |- ! Election year ! Votes ! % ! Seats ! +/− ! Government |- ! 2018 | 2,106 | 0.03 (#18) | {{Composition bar|0|349|hex=#000}} | New | {{Extra-parliamentary}} |- ! 2022 | 847 | 0.01 (#23) | {{Composition bar|0|349|hex=#000}} | {{steady}} 0 | {{Extra-parliamentary}} |}

=== European Parliament === {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left;" |- ! Election ! # of overall votes ! % of overall votes ! Seats ! +/− |- ! 2019<ref>{{cite news |title=Röster - Val 2019 |url=https://data.val.se/val/ep2019/slutresultat/E/rike/index.html |access-date=15 August 2021 |work=data.val.se |language=sv |archive-date=19 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190619143130/https://data.val.se/val/ep2019/slutresultat/E/rike/index.html }}</ref> | 644 | 0.00 (#34) | {{Composition bar|0|20|hex=#000}} |''New'' |}

=== Nordic Strength === Nordic Strength ({{langx|sv|Nordisk Styrka}}) is an underground paramilitary group, formed in August 2019 by the most hard-line NRM members who reject the parliamentary-oriented mass-organization strategy of the Swedish group as insufficiently radical. The group describes itself as an "activist organization" ("''kamporganisation''") and maintains very strict physical standards for its members. The members of the group have been convicted of over 100 violent crimes and weapon offenses and use an old church in Västmanland as their headquarters. Virtually nothing else is known about the underground sect of the already secretive group.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://expo.se/2019/08/nya-nazistgruppens-innersta-krets-%E2%80%93-f%C3%A4lld-f%C3%B6r-%C3%B6ver-100-brott |title=Nya nazistgruppens innersta krets – fälld för över 100 brott |date=15 October 2020 |publisher=Expo.se}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://expo.se/2020/02/har-ar-nordisk-styrkas-organisationshus |title=Här är nazisternas nya högkvarter - ett tidigare församlingshus |date=15 October 2020 |publisher=Expo.se}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.arbetaren.se/2019/08/14/nmr-splittras-klas-lund-bildar-ny-nazistgrupp/ |title=NMR splittras – Klas Lund bildar ny nazistgrupp |date=15 October 2020 |work=Arbetaren}}</ref>

==Finland== thumb|NRM Finnish independence day demonstration, 2018 ''Pohjoismainen Vastarintaliike'' is the Finnish branch of the Nordic Resistance Movement. It was founded by Esa Henrik Holappa, who would later abandon neo-Nazism and leave the group.<ref>{{Cite web |title=A neo-Nazi leader no more |url=https://www.hate-speech.org/a-neo-nazi-leader-breaks-off/ |access-date=2024-11-22 |website=Hate Speech International}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Strand |first=Tormod |date=2016-05-21 |title=– Jeg omfavnet Hitlers tanker |url=https://www.nrk.no/norge/_-jeg-omfavnet-hitlers-tanker-1.12957059 |access-date=2024-11-22 |work=NRK |language=nb-NO}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-05-15 |title=Han var ledare för Nordiska motstånds=rörelsen i Finland – nu talar han ut |url=https://expo.se/nyhet/han-var-ledare-for-nordiska-motstandsrorelsen-i-finland-nu-talar-han-ut/ |access-date=2024-11-22 |language=sv-SE}}</ref> Its current leader is Antti Niemi.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Repentant leader, manslaughter and nazi march – Year 2016 for Finland's Nordic Resistance Movement |url=https://varisverkosto.com/2017/06/repentant-leader-manslaughter-and-nazi-march-year-2016-for-finlands-nordic-resistance-movement/ |access-date=2024-11-22 |website=Varis}}</ref> Some of the group's activities include planting of propaganda posters and organizing demonstrations. Members also participate in hand-to-hand combat and shooting training arranged by the organization.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://yle.fi/uutiset/extreme_right_radicals_seeking_more_visible_presence_in_finland/6478162|title=Extreme right radicals seeking more visible presence in Finland|date=2 February 2013 |publisher=Finnish Broadcasting Company|access-date=1 October 2017}}</ref> The group also advocates pan-Finno-Ugrism, or "Kindred-folk ideology" ("''Heimoaate''"), and unification with ethnically Finnic Estonia is part of the group's program.<ref name=irredentism />

The organisation is responsible for multiple violent crimes, including attacking anti-racism and gay pride demonstrations and stabbing participants of a left-wing event.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://yle.fi/uutiset/researcher_jyvaskyla_knife_attack_no_surprise/6474410|title=Researcher: Jyväskylä knife attack no surprise|date=31 January 2013 |publisher=Finnish Broadcasting Company|access-date=1 October 2017}}</ref> According to an investigation by Yleisradio, two thirds of the members have a conviction for a violent crime.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-10534206|title=Ylen selvitys paljastaa: Jopa kahdella kolmesta natsijärjestö PVL:n ja Soldiers of Odinin näkyvimmistä suomalaisjäsenistä on rikostaustaa |date=3 December 2018 |publisher=Finnish Broadcasting Company|access-date=22 September 2020}}</ref> The NRM is responsible for the 2016 Helsinki Asema-aukio assault in which an involved antifascist died later. The group also awarded the title of "activist of the year" to a member convicted of torturing a man to death and possessing illegal weapons.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.expressen.se/gt/polisen-missade-att-identifiera-den-domde-mordaren-pa-bild/|title=Polisen missade att identifiera den dömde mördaren på bild|date=8 October 2018 |publisher=Expressen|access-date=22 September 2020}}</ref> The group assaults people they consider political enemies in their homes, a practice they dub "home visits".<ref name="holappa">{{cite web|url=https://yle.fi/aihe/artikkeli/2016/05/15/nain-toimii-suomen-vastarintaliike|title=Näin toimii Suomen Vastarintaliike |date=15 May 2016 |publisher=Yle|access-date=26 September 2020}}</ref> In 2020, a campaign chairman was left critically injured after being beaten with a clawhammer in his home in Jämsä. A man connected to the group is charged with attempted murder along with another man.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-11557220|title=Analyysi: Oikeus selätti PVL-natsit ja asetti rajat sananvapauden väärinkäytölle|date=22 September 2020 |publisher=Yle|access-date=26 September 2020}}</ref> The NRM also vandalized the Israeli embassy over 20 times and defaced synagogues, causing the Finnish ambassador to be called to the Israeli foreign ministry in Jerusalem twice.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.is.fi/kotimaa/art-2000006394591.html|title=Israelin suurlähetystö joutui äärioikeiston ilkivallan uhriksi – Suurlähettiläs: Suomi oli viimeinen maa, jossa uskoin tällaista tapahtuvan|date=3 February 2020 |work=Ilta-Sanomat|access-date=26 September 2020}}</ref> On 5 December 2020, Finnish police arrested a NRM member for murdering a fellow member, this time in Riihimäki.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.iltalehti.fi/kotimaa/a/f5a3fdfa-04f6-4e7f-b030-f6e08b7abff8|title=PVL:ään kuulunutta uusnatsia epäillään murhasta Riihimäellä|work=Iltalehti|access-date=8 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.iltalehti.fi/kotimaa/a/7e79d067-a908-4bc7-80fb-ba9eda5b8dfc|title=Riihimäen murha: Syytetyn mielentila tutkitaan|work=Iltalehti|access-date=13 October 2021}}</ref> On 17 March 2021, Finnish police arrested another NRM member and confiscated several crates of explosives from his apartment.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.iltalehti.fi/kotimaa/a/606623be-1f90-4bf1-8915-a3fffbc625f2 |title=KRP:llä suuri mystinen operaatio Oulussa – Kaleva: tapaukseen liittyy Jyväskylän kirjastopuukotuksesta tuomittu uusnatsi|work=Iltalehti|access-date=19 March 2021}}</ref>

The NRM along with other nationalist organizations organizes an annual torch march demonstration in Helsinki in memory of the Finnish SS Battalion on the Finnish independence day, which ends at the Hietaniemi cemetery where members visit the tomb of Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim and the monument to the Finnish SS Battalion.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.brusselstimes.com/427922/neo-nazis-marching-on-the-streets-in-european-cities-despite-eu-bans|title=Neo-Nazis marching on the streets in European cities despite EU bans|quote=Helsinki, Finland, 'Towards Freedom' and '612 for freedom' march' in memory of the Finnish SS-battalion which fought with Nazi Germany|date=28 March 2023|work=Brussels Times}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bnaibrith.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/AnnualMarchesGlorifyingNazism_Z105c.pdf|title=On Europe's Streets:Annual Marches Glorifying Nazism|quote=the main organizers and guests of the event have been drawn from either non-party-affiliated far-right-activists or members of the right-wing populist Finns Party (Perussuomalaiset), its youth organization Finns Party Youth (Perussuomalaiset Nuoret) ... the 612-march is a torchlight procession from central Helsinki to the Hietaniemi war cemetery, where members visit the tomb of World War II-era President Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim and the monument to the Finnish SS-Battalion. There are speeches at both the assembly point and at the cemetery, eulogizing the Battle for Helsinki, depicted by speakers as the occasion "when Germans and Finns marched side by side and liberated the city from the communists."|date=25 March 2023|work=B'nai B'rith, Amadeu Antonio Foundation, Federal Foreign Office}}</ref> The event has been protested by antifascists, which has led to counterdemonstrators being violently assaulted by the NRM members who act as security. The demonstration attracts close to 3000 participants according to the estimates of the police and hundreds of officers patrol Helsinki to prevent violent clashes.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hs.fi/kaupunki/art-2000006334051.html?share=f6b9cc465a58c4b97bd69ce71733f9eb|title=Äärioikeistolaisten hihamerkit ja anarkistiliput vilahtelivat Helsingissä, kun tuhannet marssivat itsenäisyyspäivän mielenosoituksissa – Poliisi otti kiinni 13 ihmistä|publisher=Helsingin Sanomat|date=7 October 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.iltalehti.fi/kotimaa/a/201712082200589810|title=Pohjoismainen vastarintaliike joukkonujakassa itsenäisyyspäivänä – uusnatsit naureskelivat väkivallalle: "Hauskaa!"|publisher=Iltasanomat|date=7 October 2020}}</ref><ref name="holappa" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kansanuutiset.fi/artikkeli/3337196-kirjailija-timo-hannikainen-jarjesti-marssin-uusnatsien-kanssa|title=Kirjailija Timo Hännikäinen järjesti marssin uusnatsien kanssa|publisher=Kansan Uutiset|date=7 October 2020}}</ref> The march has been attended and promoted by the Finns Party, and condemned by left-wing parties, for example Green League MP Iiris Suomela characterized it as "obviously neo-nazi" and expressed her disappointment in it being attended by such a large number of people.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://iirissuomela.fi/2017/12/612-on-natsien-marssi/|title=612-kulkue perustettiin äärioikeiston marssiksi. Jos se ei riitä syyksi vastustaa kulkuetta, niin mikä sitten?|first=Iiris|last=Suomela|date=7 October 2020|access-date=31 August 2023|archive-date=27 November 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221127011253/http://iirissuomela.fi/2017/12/612-on-natsien-marssi/}}</ref> The event also attracts neo-Nazis from abroad and has been attended by the NRM's foreign allies like Junge Nationalisten, who praised the event and compared it to the Battle of Helsinki, "when Germans and Finns marched side by side and liberated the city from the communists".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://junge-nationalisten.de/allgemein/elaekoeoen-suomi-hurra-finnland/ |title=ELÄKÖÖN SUOMI! – HURRA FINNLAND! |date=9 October 2020 |work=Junge Nationalisten}}</ref>

In addition to violent crimes, the NRM is closely connected to the proscribed terrorist organization National Action. A Finnish corporal who had served in Afghanistan and was a member of both the NRM and National Action was convicted of terror offenses and membership in the proscribed organization while living in Llansilin. The leader of National Action, Benjamin Raymond, also visited the NRM in Finland and held speeches and was pictured posing with an assault rifle. The NRM also closely cooperates with the neo-Nazi military formation Azov Battalion: Olena Semenyaka, spokeswoman of the paramilitary battalion, mentioned a "foreign legion in Ukraine that international volunteers could join, as well as military training camps at the Azov camp in eastern Ukraine." In 2019, an NRM delegation visited an Azov camp in Kyiv.<ref name=IKEA>Potter, Nicholas (6 January 2021) [https://www.belltower.news/nordic-resistance-the-pan-european-ikea-fascism-of-nordiska-motstandsroerelsen-109787/ "The Pan-European "Ikea Fascism" of Nordiska Motståndsrörelsen"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210613215416/https://www.belltower.news/nordic-resistance-the-pan-european-ikea-fascism-of-nordiska-motstandsroerelsen-109787/ |date=13 June 2021}} ''Belltower.News''</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/nov/12/british-army-solider-recruited-far-right-group-national-action|title=British soldier recruited for far-right group while in army|work=The Guardian|date=12 November 2018 |access-date=24 September 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.iltalehti.fi/ulkomaat/a/d6de5519-cbac-4577-899a-aa89242aff0f|title=Britannian armeijassa palvellut suomalainen Mikko Vehviläinen sai 8 vuotta vankeutta – valmisteli "rotusotaa" |publisher=Iltalehti|access-date=24 September 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/744661/National-Action-neo-Nazi-founder-picture-assault-rifle-Hitler-obsession|title=Neo-Nazi's Hitler Obsession: National Action founder pictured holding assault rifle|date=18 December 2016 |publisher=The Express|access-date=24 September 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://national-action.info/2015/03/09/vastarintaliike/|title=Vastarintaliike!|publisher=National Action|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160614115526/http://national-action.info/2015/03/09/vastarintaliike/|access-date=24 September 2020|archive-date=14 June 2016}}</ref> Dozens of the Finns are also part of the Iron March terror network, famous for spawning the Atomwaffen Division.<ref name="Finnish Broadcasting Company">{{cite web |date=22 September 2020 |title=Vuodetut viestit paljastavat: Natsijärjestö PVL yritti kosiskella isoa yleisöä ja käänsi samalla selän kaikista radikaaleimmille seuraajilleen |trans-title=The leaked messages reveal: The Nazi organization PVL tried to woo a large audience and at the same time turned its back on its most radical followers |url=https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-11288020 |access-date=22 September 2020 |publisher=Finnish Broadcasting Company |language=fi}}</ref> The group distributes the magazine ''Musta Kivi'' advocating esoteric Hitlerism and the Order of Nine Angles, and ''Musta Kivi'' has published serialized Finnish translation of ONA's ''Hostia'' and has promoted 21 Paths to the Kingdom of Darkness. NRM also sells books by Savitri Devi and ONA adept Kerry Bolton of the Black Order.<ref>Ylinen, Katri: Saatanallinen paniikki. Kosmos, 2024. ISBN 9789523522756</ref><ref name=occult2>{{cite web|url=https://ctc.usma.edu/the-iron-march-forum-and-the-evolution-of-the-skull-mask-neo-fascist-network/|title=The Iron March Forum and the Evolution of the "Skull Mask" Neo-Fascist Network|date=22 December 2021|publisher=Combating Terrorism Center at West Point|access-date=December 28, 2021|quote=Finally, the Nordic Resistance Movement also has a long history with O9A that predates its ties to Iron March. Haakon Forwald, head of the Norwegian branch from 2010 to 2019, was a devotee of a Scandinavian O9A current variously known as the Misanthropic Luciferian Order, the Temple of Black Light, and Current 218. The magazine of the Finnish branch of the Nordic Resistance Movement featured articles on O9A spiritual practices and on the work of Kerry Bolton of the Black Order.|archive-date=28 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211228070615/https://ctc.usma.edu/the-iron-march-forum-and-the-evolution-of-the-skull-mask-neo-fascist-network/}}</ref> It also promotes and sells ''Siege'' by James Mason that exhorts accelerationism and terrorism.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.counterextremism.com/sites/default/files/CEP%20Study_Violent%20Right-Wing%20Extremism%20and%20Terrorism_Nov%202020.pdf|page=66|publisher=Counter Extremism Project|date=20 April 2025|quote=Mason's book The Siege is the key source of inspiration for accelerationist groups, and an English edition was sold via the NRM web shop in Finland.|title=Violent Right-Wing Extremism and Terrorism – Transnational Connectivity, Definitions, Incidents, Structures and Countermeasures}}</ref> Representatives of the NRM visited James Mason in the United States in 2019 with a touring NRM-affiliated Finnish neo-Nazi music collective, "Bolt of Ukko" (''Ukonvasama'').<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://varisverkosto.com/2020/06/uusnatsiryhma-ukonvasama-jarjestaa-natsitapahtuman-aurassa-viikonloppuna/ |title=Uusnatsiryhmä Ukonvasama järjestää natsitapahtuman Aurassa viikonloppuna |website=Varisverkosto |access-date=26 October 2020}}</ref>

Even though the Finnish NRM rejects parliamentarism unlike the Swedish branch, there have been numerous cases where members of the Finns Party have attracted criticism from the other parties and antifascists for attending events organized by or with the NRM. Several members of the Finns Party took part in an event where the participants shot and threw knives at targets, using photos of members of the Rinne Cabinet and attended an event commemorating Eugen Schauman, who assassinated Nikolay Bobrikov.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.iltalehti.fi/politiikka/a/2db7ee43-1abe-410e-8859-08517425277d|title=Saat mitä tilaat – perussuomalaiset ovat flirttailleet äärioikeiston suuntaan jo vuosia ja nyt se on ongelma|publisher=Iltalehti|access-date=1 October 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.iltalehti.fi/kotimaa/a/e478c945-bd9a-464f-9b93-94d9118c7816|title=Mitä "kesäleirillä" oikein tapahtui? Perussuomalaiset selvittää, miksi heidän jäsenensä kilpailivat äärioikeistolaisten kanssa|publisher=Iltalehti|access-date=1 October 2020}}</ref> Finns Party Youth members and leaders also attend "Etnofutur" ethnonationalist conferences in Estonia organized by the Blue Awakening together with the NRM. The founder of Blue Awakening and current MP for EKRE Ruuben Kaalep has been described as a neo-Nazi and connected to the local proscribed terror group and Atomwaffen affiliate Feuerkrieg Division.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://directa.cat/com-un-nen-de-tretze-anys-ha-pogut-dirigir-des-destonia-una-organitzacio-internacional-neonazi/|title=COM UN NEN DE TRETZE ANYS HA POGUT DIRIGIR DES D'ESTÒNIA UNA ORGANITZACIÓ INTERNACIONAL NEONAZI?|author=Roger Suso|work=:ca:Directa|date=31 December 2022|quote=According to the Eesti Ekspress newspaper, Commander had a contact with the deputy of the Conservative People's Party of Estonia (EKRE) and head of the youth section of the formation Ruuben Kaalep.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.err.ee/926367/weekly-ekre-mp-ruuben-kaalep-has-long-history-of-neo-nazi-activity |title=EKRE MP Ruuben Kaalep has long history of neo-Nazi activity |work=Eesti Rahvusringhääling |date=10 July 2019 |access-date=10 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200508103640/https://news.err.ee/926367/weekly-ekre-mp-ruuben-kaalep-has-long-history-of-neo-nazi-activity |archive-date=8 May 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://estonianworld.com/security/a-global-neo-nazi-organisation-led-by-a-13-year-old-estonian-schoolboy/ |title=A global neo-Nazi organisation led by a 13-year-old Estonian schoolboy |work=Estonian World |date=10 August 2020 |last=Silver |first=Tambur |access-date=10 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200512122848/https://estonianworld.com/security/a-global-neo-nazi-organisation-led-by-a-13-year-old-estonian-schoolboy/ |archive-date=12 May 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.delfi.lt/news/daily/lithuania/grupuote-kurios-narys-planavo-ispuoli-lietuvoje-itraukti-siekiama-net-ir-vaikus.d?id=84628759 |work=Delfi (web portal) |title=Grupuotė, kurios narys planavo išpuolį Lietuvoje: įtraukti siekiama net ir vaikus (The group whose member planned the attack in Lithuania: even children are sought in involvement) |date=26 June 2020 |access-date=27 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200627140746/https://www.delfi.lt/news/daily/lithuania/grupuote-kurios-narys-planavo-ispuoli-lietuvoje-itraukti-siekiama-net-ir-vaikus.d?id=84628759 |archive-date=27 June 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hs.fi/sunnuntai/art-2000005962641.html|title=Radikaalit pääsivät niskan päälle perussuomalaisten nuorisojärjestössä – suljetulla keskustelupalstalla julistetaan rotuoppia ja haukutaan Halla-ahoa|date=12 January 2019|publisher=Helsingin Sanomat|access-date=1 October 2020}}</ref>

On 30 November 2017, the Pirkanmaa District Court banned the Nordic Resistance Movement in Finland for having "flagrantly violated the principles of good practice".<ref name="banned">{{cite web |url=https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/finnish_court_bans_neo-nazi_movement/9956449|title=Finnish court bans Neo-Nazi movement|date=30 November 2017|website=yle.fi|publisher=Finnish Broadcasting Company|quote= A court in Tampere has prohibited the Nordic Resistance Movement, a group linked with violent racist activities in Finland.}}</ref> The ban was appealed and a request by the police for a temporary ban was turned down.<ref name="Banblock">{{Cite news |url=https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/court_blocks_police_move_to_temporarily_ban_neo-nazi_group/10079875 |title=Court blocks police move to temporarily ban neo-Nazi group |work=Finnish Broadcasting Company |access-date=18 February 2018 |language=en}}</ref> In September 2018, the Court of Appeal in Turku upheld the ban.<ref name=Ban>{{Cite web |url=https://svenska.yle.fi/artikel/2018/09/28/abo-hovratt-upploser-nordiska-motstandsrorelsen-i-finland-jatteviktig-milstolpe |title=Åbo hovrätt upplöser Nordiska motståndsrörelsen i Finland – "Jätteviktig milstolpe" säger professor |website=Finnish Broadcasting Company |language=sv |trans-title=Court of Appeal in Turku Dissolves the Nordic Resistance Movement in Finland – "Very important milestone" says Professor |access-date=1 October 2018 |archive-date=27 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327090101/https://svenska.yle.fi/artikel/2018/09/28/abo-hovratt-upploser-nordiska-motstandsrorelsen-i-finland-jatteviktig-milstolpe }}</ref><ref name="HBL_appeals_SC">{{Cite web |url=https://www.hbl.fi/artikel/nazistiska-nmr-fortsatter-strida-mot-forbudet/ |title=NMR kan demonstrera synligt på självständighetsdagen också i år – överklagar beslut om förbud |last=Svartström |first=Anna |website=HBL |language=sv |trans-title=The NRM can demonstrate in public on Independence Day also this year – appeals ban verdict |access-date=25 February 2019 |archive-date=4 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190904061226/https://www.hbl.fi/artikel/nazistiska-nmr-fortsatter-strida-mot-forbudet/ }}</ref> In March 2019, the Supreme Court placed a temporary ban on the group.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/supreme_court_bans_neo-nazi_groups_activities/10712210 |work=Finnish Broadcasting Company |access-date=5 March 2020 |language=en |title=Supreme Court bans neo-Nazi group's activities}}</ref> On 22 September 2020, the Supreme Court upheld the ban.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-11556872 |work=Finnish Broadcasting Company |access-date=22 September 2020 |title=Korkein oikeus: Väkivaltainen uusnatsijärjestö PVL ei nauti sananvapauden suojaa, joten se on lakkautettava}}</ref> The Supreme Court noted in its ruling that "The use of violence linked to the organization's activities has to be considered a part of the organization's operations.{{nbs}}... The operating methods that were considered unlawful represented a substantial part of the organization's operations, and [the organization] only engaged in a limited amount of other types of activities".<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/neo-nazi-nordic-resistance-movement-targets-jews-on-yom-kippur-643809 |title=Neo-Nazi Nordic Resistance Movement targets Jews on Yom Kippur |website=The Jerusalem Post |date=1 October 2020}}</ref>

The National Bureau of Investigation suspects the Nordic Resistance Movement to be continuing its operations under the names Kohti Vapautta!, Atomwaffen Division Finland and Suomalaisapu.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hs.fi/kotimaa/art-2000006124854.html?share=d1b16c9f9cf8e0f004dc5198dd97c1e0|title=Krp epäilee: Uusnatsijärjestö jatkaa toimintaansa korkeimman oikeuden kiellosta huolimatta|date=29 May 2019|website=Helsingin Sanomat|language=fi|access-date=25 October 2019}}</ref> In its annual threat assessment for 2020, the bureau found that despite the ban, the threat of far-right terrorism had risen and identified 400 persons of interest "motivated and with the capacity to perform terrorism in Finland". International links and funding networks were pointed out as a special source of concern.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.uusisuomi.fi/uutiset/supo-aarioikeistolaisen-terrorismin-uhka-kohonnut-kannattajia-tunnistettu-myos-suomessa/8dd698dc-6d4e-4bbc-80da-f851ca3780ae |title=Supo: Äärioikeistolaisen terrorismin uhka kohonnut – Kannattajia tunnistettu myös Suomessa |website=Uusi Suomi |date=29 October 2020}}</ref> According to the University of Oslo Center for Research on Extremism:

<blockquote>Some NRM activists have reasoned that only radical measures will be effective post-ban, thus coming to support e.g. the accelerationist model of activity. Certain members of the group have also appeared as contributors to publications that promote esoteric forms of neo-Nazism. A corresponding shift towards a more "cultic" direction has also been observed in the United Kingdom after the banning of the National Action (NA).<ref name=occult>{{cite web|url=https://www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/english/news-and-events/right-now/2020/the-case-against-the-nordic-resistance-movement.html|title=The case against the Nordic Resistance Movement in Finland: an overview and some explanations|publisher=University of Oslo Center for Research on Extremism |access-date=2 November 2020 | quote=It is notable however, that some NRM activists have reasoned that only radical measures will be effective post-ban, thus coming to support e.g. the accelerationist model of activity. Certain members of the group have also appeared as contributors to publications that promote esoteric forms of neo-Nazism. A corresponding shift towards a more "cultic" direction has also been observed in the United Kingdom after the banning of the National Action (NA).}}</ref></blockquote>

In mid-June 2024, there was a series of racist stabbings in Oulu. One of the perpetrators, Juhani Sebastian Lämsä, was on the terror watchlist for connections to the outlawed terror group NRM.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.iltalehti.fi/kotimaa/a/80710df7-99b9-47e8-b156-e7b8560c2134|title=Tämän vuoksi poliisi epäili 15-vuotiasta puukottajaa rasistiksi|date=11 July 2024|work=Iltalehti}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mtvuutiset.fi/artikkeli/mtv-n-tiedot-oulussa-lasta-puukottanut-on-ollut-taustansa-vuoksi-yksi-terrorismin-torjunnan-kohdehenkiloista/8958040|title=MTV:n tiedot: Oulussa lasta puukottanut on ollut taustansa vuoksi yksi terrorismin torjunnan kohdehenkilöistä|date=11 July 2024|work=MTV Uutiset}}</ref><ref name="auto">{{Cite web |date=2024-06-14 |title=Yle sources: Suspect in Oulu child stabbing is far-right extremist |url=https://yle.fi/a/74-20094042 |access-date=2025-03-04 |work=Yleisradio Oy |language=en}}</ref> Lämsä was found guilty on two charges of attempted murder, but will not face prison time due to a court-ordered psychological assessment which found him not criminally accountable for his actions.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-03-03 |title=Neo-Nazi found guilty of stabbing attack on two children, but avoids prison sentence |url=https://yle.fi/a/74-20147113 |access-date=2025-03-04 |work=Yleisradio Oy |language=en}}</ref> Prior to these attacks Lämsä had been convicted for the stabbing of a person at a library in Jyväskylä,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-11-14 |title=Suspect remanded in 2013 Jyväskylä library stabbing |url=https://yle.fi/a/3-7630224 |access-date=2025-03-04 |work=Yleisradio Oy |language=en}}</ref> as well as the pepper-spraying of the Left Alliance politician Dan Koivulaakso at a Pride event.<ref name="auto" /> Another perpetrator of the 2024 Oulu attacks was a supporter of the NRM as well. The third attacker was unaffiliated. The three men stabbed several people with a perceived immigrant background, causing life-threatening injuries.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hs.fi/alueet/art-2000010899408.html|work=Helsingin Sanomat|date=16 December 2024|title=16-vuotiasta lukiolaispoikaa puukotettiin kävelyllä täysin yllättäen – "Koko elämä meni uusiksi", hän kertoo}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.aamulehti.fi/rikos/art-2000010905655.html|work=Aamulehti|date=16 December 2024|title=Oulun kauppakeskus Valkeassa ulkomaalais_taustaista miesta puukottanut teini oli syyntakeeton}}</ref>

===Åland=== According to Helsingin Sanomat in connection with an article on NRM members in Åland, in 2026 the islands have attracted Swedish neo-Nazis since homeschooling is legal there unlike in Sweden. In general the attitude is more permissive: a man that was a member of the Finnish NRM is a teacher in a Mariehamn school despite openly calling himself "a National Socialist" and doing Nazi salutes in social media. When the principal was questioned, he simply described him as a good teacher and the rest did not concern him.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.iltalehti.fi/kotimaa/a/c91f7319-f31e-447f-b50c-2ed505513bfc |title=Nya Åland: Ahvenanmaalla työskentelee opettaja, joka on avoimesti uusnatsi – Rehtori: "Hyvä työntekijä" |author=Kärkkäinen, Henri |work=Iltalehti |date=2026-02-11 |access-date=2026-03-01 |language=fi}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.hs.fi/politiikka/art-2000011806970.html |title=Kotikoulun suosio räjähti, Ahvenanmaa vetää ruotsalaisia uusnatseja, Nya Åland kertoo |work=Helsingin Sanomat |date=2026-02-11 |access-date=2026-03-01 |language=fi}}</ref>

==Norway== ''Nordiske Motstandsbevegelsen'' is the Norwegian chapter of the Nordic Resistance Movement, founded by Haakon Forwald, former member of Dissection and Misanthropic Luciferian Order.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Start |url=https://whiskey-soda.de |access-date=2024-11-22 |website=whiskey-soda.de - the alternative magazine |language=de}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dt.no/nyhet/drammen/royken/roykenboringen-haakon-forwald-forst-i-nazidemonstrasjon-i-sverige/s/5-57-624210|title=Røykenbøringen Haakon Forwald først i nazidemonstrasjon i Sverige|date=1 May 2017|access-date=16 April 2018|archive-date=12 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612140035/https://www.dt.no/nyhet/drammen/royken/roykenboringen-haakon-forwald-forst-i-nazidemonstrasjon-i-sverige/s/5-57-624210}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://pluss.vg.no/spesial/2017/det-hvite-raseriet/page/nordens-farligste|title=VG+|website=pluss.vg.no|access-date=16 April 2018|archive-date=21 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180621053544/http://pluss.vg.no/spesial/2017/det-hvite-raseriet/page/nordens-farligste}}</ref> The leader of the Norwegian branch is Tommy Olsen.<ref name=":1" /> They are organized in four subchapters (or nests) in Norway.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Hansen|first=Ståle|date=27 February 2017|title=Nå marsjerer de i gatene igjen|url=https://www.nrk.no/dokumentar/xl/na-marsjerer-de-i-gatene-igjen-1.13394305|access-date=25 July 2020|website=NRK|language=nb-NO}}</ref> In 2014, Norwegian police confiscated illegal submachine guns and automatic rifles from a member.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.is.fi/ulkomaat/art-2000000849173.html|title=Norjan poliisi takavarikoi sarjatuliaseita äärioikeistolaisilta|website=Iltasanomat|date=13 December 2014}}</ref> In 2019, another member was arrested after hijacking an ambulance, trying to ram a police car and driving into a crowd. Inside the ambulance the police discovered a shotgun and Uzi submachine gun.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/10/22/armed-man-steals-ambulance-drives-crowds-oslo/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/10/22/armed-man-steals-ambulance-drives-crowds-oslo/ |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Two arrested in Oslo after hijacked ambulance was driven at crowds |website=The Telegram|date=22 October 2019 |last1=Orange |first1=Richard }}{{cbignore}}</ref> Norwegian-Russian neo-Nazi Yan Petrovsky was active in NRM and was arrested at the home of a leading Norwegian NRM member Ronny Bårdsen and subsequently deported back to Russia as a threat to national security. Petrovsky was previously trained by RIM and was a founding member and second-in-command of the Rusich Group.{{refn|<ref name=HS.fi>{{cite web|url=https://www.hs.fi/kotimaa/art-2000009809061.html|work=Helsingin Sanomat|date=15 December 2023|title='Ei ole mahdollista' – Moskovassa yllätyttiin Wagneriin kytkeytyneen johtajan kiinniotosta Suomessa|quote=Jan Petrovski (nyk. Voislav Torden) on ollut mukana Soldiers of Odinin ja Pohjoismaisen vastarintaliikkeen toiminnassa. |trans-quote=Jan Petrovski (now Voislav Torden) has been involved in the activities of Soldiers of Odin and the Nordic resistance movement. |url-access=subscription |language=fi}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/wagners-rusich-neo-nazi-attack-unit-hints-its-going-back-into-ukraine-undercover|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230406095719/https://www.thedailybeast.com/wagners-rusich-neo-nazi-attack-unit-hints-its-going-back-into-ukraine-undercover|archive-date=6 April 2023|title=Neo-Nazi Russian Attack Unit Hints It's Going Back Into Ukraine Undercover|last1 = Rondeaux | first1 = Candace| last2 = Deer | first2 = Jonathan| last3 = Dalton | first3 = Ben|website=The Daily Beast|date=26 January 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite thesis |last=Gigstad |first=Knut |date=Autumn 2021|title=Foreign neo-Nazi fighters who went to fight in Ukraine|type=Master's thesis in investigative journalism|url=https://bora.uib.no/bora-xmlui/bitstream/handle/11250/2835889/Dokument-uten-navn.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230417173732/https://bora.uib.no/bora-xmlui/bitstream/handle/11250/2835889/Dokument-uten-navn.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 April 2023|language=no|publisher=Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Bergen|id=UJOU350|quote=Several of the people who were involved are relatively well-known figures within neo-Nazi circles, such as Ronny Bårdsen, one of the leading figures in the Nordic Resistance (via Google Translate)}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://filternyheter.no/brenn-din-lokale-moske-kjent-nynazist-selger-jodehets-voldsbudskap-og-muslimhat-i-egen-nettbutikk/|title="Brenn din lokale moské": Kjent nynazist selger jødehets og muslimhat i egen nettbutikk|date=8 April 2023|work=Filter Nyheter|author=Harald S. Klungtveit}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://meduza.io/en/feature/2017/01/20/enemy-of-the-state-or-its-founding-element|title=Enemy of the State or its founding element?|work=meduza.io|date=26 August 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.searchlightmagazine.com/2024/09/mixed-fortunes-for-russias-far-right-assets/|title=Mixed fortunes for Russia's far right assets|work=Searchlight Magazine|date=2 September 2024|quote=Milchakov's deputy Yan Petrovsky (alias Voislav Torden) is jailed in Finland awaiting trial. He built strong connections with Scandinavian nazis, including members of the Nordic Resistance Movement, which was recently proscribed by the US authorities as a terrorist organisation.}}</ref>}}

==Iceland== There have been newspaper articles since 2016 on ties of the movement to Iceland,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/politics_and_society/2016/08/02/nordic_neo_nazis_set_their_sights_on_iceland/|title=Nordic neo-nazis set their sights on Iceland|date=2 August 2016|archive-date=17 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180717013131/https://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/politics_and_society/2016/08/02/nordic_neo_nazis_set_their_sights_on_iceland/}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://grapevine.is/news/2016/08/04/swedish-neo-nazis-come-to-iceland-seeking-recruits/|title=Swedish Neo-Nazis Come To Iceland, Seeking Recruits|publisher=The Reykjavik Grapevine|date=4 August 2016|first=Andie Sophia|last=Fontaine}}</ref><ref>{{Cite report|url=https://www.counterextremism.com/threat/nordic-resistance-movement-nrm|title=Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM)|work=Counter Extremism Project|access-date=16 July 2018|language=en|archive-date=18 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180618080131/https://www.counterextremism.com/threat/nordic-resistance-movement-nrm|url-status=live}}</ref> and it has a website with an Icelandic Internet domain. The Icelandic branch is called ''Norræna Mótstöðuhreyfingin'', but often called ''Norðurvígi''.

In September 2019, between 10 and 15 Swedish members of the Nordic Resistance Movement staged an event at Lækjartorg in Reykjavík where they spread flyers and promoted the organisation.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://stundin.is/grein/9597/|title=Nýnasistar koma saman á Lækjartorgi|website=Stundin|date=5 September 2019|archive-date=26 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190926124346/https://stundin.is/grein/9597/|url-status=live}}</ref> The event sparked an anti-Nazi demonstration a few days later which drew an estimated 200 participants.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mbl.is/frettir/innlent/2019/09/07/standa_saman_gegn_nasisma_i_rigningunni/|title=Standa saman gegn nasisma í rigningunni|publisher=MBL|date=7 September 2019|archive-date=31 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191231065215/https://www.mbl.is/frettir/innlent/2019/09/07/standa_saman_gegn_nasisma_i_rigningunni/|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Denmark== ''Nordiske Modstandsbevægelse,'' led by Joakim Johansen, is the Danish branch of the Nordic Resistance Movement.<ref name=Nyheder>{{cite web|url=https://nyheder.tv2.dk/live/krimi/2024-12-10-sigtet-i-terrorsag-fremstilles-i-grundlovsforhoer|title=Sigtet i terrorsag fremstilles i grundlovsforhør|work=TV 2 Nyhederne|date=11 December 2024}}</ref> In 2019, on the anniversary of the Kristallnacht a Jewish graveyard was vandalized by Danish NRM members in the town of Randers.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50417187|title=Neo-Nazi held in Denmark over Jewish cemetery attack|work=BBC|date=23 September 2022}}</ref> In 2021, a Jewish graveyard was vandalized on the Passover in the city of Aalborg. Benny Dagan, Israeli ambassador to Denmark, responded that "Nazi Nordfront has to be outlawed."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.jns.org/jewish-cemetery-in-denmark-vandalized-over-passover-with-red-paint-hanged-dolls/|title=Jewish cemetery in Denmark vandalized over Passover with red paint, hanged dolls|work=Jewish News Syndicate|date=23 September 2022}}</ref> A 29-year-old man from Ishøj was arrested on 9 December 2024 and charged with nine counts of inciting terrorism for his promotion of accelerationist material. The man also shared a communique from Brandon Russell, founder of the terror group Atomwaffen. Johansen had described the man as "friend of [NRM]" and having attended events of the organization.<ref name=Nyheder/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.berlingske.dk/indland/mand-sigtet-for-at-fremme-terrorvirksomhed-paa-telegram|title=Mand sigtet for at fremme terrorvirksomhed på Telegram|work=Berlingske|date=11 December 2024}}</ref>

On February 15, 2026, three Danish NRM members were arrested for carrying knives in public. They were part of a bigger Nazi skinhead gang in Copenhagen affiliated with the NRM. They have shared pictures of openly holding NRM banners and doing mass Nazi salutes around the city. According to Danish ''Redox'', the local NRM members pay tribute to Terrorgram, 764 and Order of Nine Angles which makes them particularly dangerous.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://redox.dk/nyheder/koebenhavn-unge-naziskinheads-taget-med-vaaben/ |title=København: Unge naziskinheads taget med våben |website=Redox.dk |date=2026-02-20 |language=da |access-date=2026-03-01}}</ref>

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