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Hello, I'm Tina Deheelie.

You're listening to Beyond Today from BBC Radio

for the space to ask one big question about one big story.

Today we're asking how dangerous.

Today we're asking how dangerous a far right hipsters.

Hi folks, my name is Martin Selner I'm an Austrian Patriot and

identitarian activist and behind me you can see the beautiful Austrian landscape

now at the end of last week a story surface that seemed on the face of it a little bit odd.

A far-right Ytuber in Austria, Martin Selner, had his house raided by the authorities there after revealing he'd received a

fifteen hundred dollar donation

from the suspect in the Christchurch shooting in New Zealand.

His American girlfriend is furious that he's now being linked to the attack.

Martin has never met the shooter, not to mention he staunchly opposes the shooter's

belief in violence. The key word here is link.

Link implies that Martin had been working together with the shooter, that he

endorses his state of mind and his actions, and that he was somehow involved in the shooting.

So what is the link between a self-proclaimed nonviolent, far-right

Ytuber and a suspected mass murderer.

And what can it tell us about how radical ideas become mainstream?

It's a story that's going to take us from the world of Youtubers all the way back to the Crusades. It's important to say Martin Selma you tell us something important about how radical ideas spread around the world.

One man who's met him is BBC reporter Simon Cox.

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