Anti-hate experts are raising concerns after a picture of weapons, ammunition and body armour seized at the border protest at Coutts, Alta.
showed patches belonging to a neo-nazi group in Canada. The Canadian Anti-Hate Network tweeted on Monday that gear seized by police at Coutts includes a plate carrier with Diagolon patches.
According to the network, Diagolon is an accelerationist movement that believes a revolution is inevitable and necessary to collapse the current government system.
It wants to build its ideal nation-state, which runs diagonally from Alaska through the western provinces down to Florida. It is also a neo-fascist militia with a sizeable support base across the country, said the network. Read more: Canada’s emergency law invoked over fear of ‘serious violence’ for political, ideological gain “A lot of them claim to be ex-military members and a lot of them claim to have some kind of military training.