This page is a chronological list of criminal cases and incidents involving individuals or groups allegedly associated with the Order of Nine Angles (ONA or O9A), a secretive and extremist group with an esoteric neo-Nazi, and Satanist ideology. ONA has been proscribed as a terrorist organization in New Zealand.
According to a report by the civil rights group Southern Poverty Law Center, the ONA "holds an important position in the niche, international nexus of occult, esoteric, and/or satanic neo-Nazi groups." Several newspapers have reported that the ONA is linked to a number of high-profile figures from the far right*"When police raided Garron Helm for alleged membership of NA in September 2017, they should have noticed the framed O9A picture hanging above the mantelpiece in his living room. Helm became a strong believer, and described his participation in Prevent, the government's deradicalisation programme, as 'insight'. He is now rumoured to have begun recruiting for his own nexion in the North West." – Hope not Hate, "State of Hate 2020" "More worryingly, is the influence O9A appears to have on the Sonnenkrieg Division. Leading the group is Andrew Dymock, who is obsessed with the occult and believed to be close to Ryan Fleming and Garron Helm. Under his leadership, the Sonnenkrieg Division has produced some of the most frightening and sickening material seen on the British far right for decades, including open interest in Satanism and the promotion of paedophilia, rape and murder". – "Order of Nine Angles" , Hope not Hate
"Russia arrests 16 'neo-Nazi murder cult members' accused of plotting terror attacks". Daily Mirror. 19 January 2024. and that the group is affiliated and shares affiliates with neo-Nazi terrorist groups such as the Atomwaffen Division, proscribed National Action, Sonnenkrieg Division, Combat 18 and Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM)."Far right hate is spiralling out of control ", The Independent, February 18, 2019. Additionally, the leader of the eco-extremist group Individualists Tending to the Wild has claimed to have been influenced by the ONA.
Allegations have been made by antifascist organisations, several British politicians and the media that the ONA condones and encourages sexual abuse, and this has been given as one of the reasons why the ONA should be proscribed by the British government. Many ONA adherents openly advocate rape as an effective way to undermine society by transgressing against its norms. White Star Acception commits rapes by their own admission, and ONA texts such as "The Dreccian Way", "Iron Gates", "Bluebird" and "The Rape Anthology" recommend and praise rape and pedophilia, even suggesting rape is necessary for "ascension of the Ubermensch". To advance in rank, ONA member must perform assaults, with lynchings and sexual assaults being the most recommended.Sieg, George (2013). "Angular Momentum: From Traditional to Progressive Satanism in the Order of Nine Angles". International Journal for the Study of New Religions. 4 (2): 251–283. doi:10.1558/ijsnr.v4i2.251. pp=270–271 Material promoting pedophilia has also appeared in ONA's in-house magazines Fenrir and Drums of Tophet, the latter of which also contained "borderline [child porn]". According to BBC News, "the authorities are concerned by the number of paedophiles associated with the ONA".
Timeline of crimes involving the Order of Nine Angles
2011 Ryan Fleming of Yorkshire-based ONA nexion Drakon Covenant was sentenced to 26 months in prison for false imprisonment and sexual assault of a vulnerable teenager.
2017 Ryan Fleming was again sentenced to three years in jail for the rape of a 14-year-old girl."Beyond the Iron Gates: How Nazi-Satanists Infiltrated the UK Underground" , The Quietus, November 27, 2018
2019 In 2024, the FBI released files stating that a string of 2019 arson attacks against Black churches were connected to the ONA.
A US paratrooper named Ethan Melzer in the 173rd Airborne Brigade's Sky Soldiers, who was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, in Vicenza, Italy, in 2019 until 2020, plotted an ambush on his unit, "to result in the deaths of as many of his fellow service members as possible." He was charged in June 2020 with conspiring and attempting to murder military service members, and providing and attempting to provide material support to terrorists. The paratrooper was charged with leaking classified information (including the unit's location and security) to his co-conspirators in the RapeWaffen nexion and the Order of the Nine Angles (O9A). In June 2022 he pleaded guilty to three charges and on March 3, 2023, Melzer was sentenced to 45 years in prison.
In November 2019, a Durham teen who, according to the BBC News, adheres to "occult Nazism" and, after being "influenced by the ONA," sought "to alter himself in line with their literature," was found guilty of preparing a terrorist attack. In addition to the terror offences, he is charged with sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl. He was eventually convicted of five sexual assaults in addition to the terror offenses.
2020
After Melzer was exposed, several other active members of the US military were also discovered to be adherents of the ONA. Corwyn Storm Carver was found to be another in communication with the group and in possession of ONA paraphernalia and literature while stationed in Kuwait. Shandon Simpson, member of the Ohio Army National Guard sent to quell the George Floyd protests in Washington, D.C. openly espoused neo-Nazi views and was also found to be in the RapeWaffen. Simpson told that he was planning to shoot the protesters as part of "racial holy war" and was intercepted by the FBI but only after he had already been deployed.
In January 2020, ONA followers Luke Austin Lane, Jacob Kaderli and Michael Helterbrand were arrested for and later convicted of stockpiling weapons and plotting to kill an antifascist couple and their young children. In preparation Lane, along with a dozen other people, had engaged in paramilitary training and sacrificed a ram, drank its blood and consumed psychedelic drugs in an occult ritual on his property.
The British political advocacy group Hope not Hate reported in March 2020 that there were six cases of neo-Nazis connected to ONA being prosecuted for terrorist offenses during the year alone.
In March 2020, Hope not Hate began a campaign to have the Order of Nine Angles banned, proscribed, as a terrorist group, a campaign supported by several British members of Parliament including the Labour Party's Yvette Cooper, Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee.*
"A Nazi-satanist cult is fuelling far-right groups" , New Statesman, 4 March 2020.
On 18 September 2020, Toronto Police arrested 34-year-old Guilherme "William" Von Neutegem and charged him with the murder of Mohamed-Aslim Zafis. Zafis was the caretaker of a local mosque who was found dead with his throat cut. The Toronto Police Service said the killing is possibly connected to the stabbing murder of Rampreet Singh a few days prior a short distance from the spot where Zafis' murder took place. Von Neutegem is an ONA adherent and social media accounts established as to belonging to him promote the group and included recordings of Von Neutegem performing satanic chants. In his home there was also an altar with the symbol of the ONA adorning a monolith. According to Evan Balgord of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, they are aware of more ONA members in Canada, and their affiliated organization Northern Order. CAHN reported previously of the Northern Order when a member in Canadian Armed Forces was caught selling firearms and explosives to other neo-Nazis.
Canadian Armed Forces launched an internal investigation in October 2020 after a special forces soldier with the CJIRU was identified as a member of the Northern Order and Order of Nine Angles. According to the SPLC, the man is among "some pretty well-known, high-up people in these organizations" and an acquaintance of James Mason and the former Master Corporal Patrik Mathews who was previously exposed as a recruiter for the Northern Order and Base in Canada.
15-year-old Rhianan Rudd allegedly planned blowing up a synagogue and was arrested in October 2020 in the United Kingdom. Home office however dropped the charges after concluding "she had been a victim of trafficking who had been groomed and sexually exploited". Rudd was allegedly radicalized by Atomwaffen and ONA. She died by suicide on 19 May 2022.
Danyal Hussein who killed two sisters, Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman, in a Wembley park in London was "closely associated" with the Order of Nine Angles and took part in an ONA internet forum. He killed the two women to fulfill a "demonic pact". In response MP Stephanie Peacock called on the Home Secretary to proscribe the ONA.Stephanie Peacock, "Stephanie Calls On Home Secretary To Proscribe Murderous Nazi-Occultist Group" In Russia four Order of Nine Angles adherents were arrested after two confessed to ritual murders involving cannibalism in Karelia and Saint Petersburg. Two of them were also accused of large-scale drug trafficking as a large amount of narcotics was found in their home.
On 11 December 2020, the UK based video hosting service BitChute removed all ONA material for violating the site's anti-terror policy, citing ONA's "close connections with other proscribed organisations". The same month Yahoo! News acquired a report by the US National Counterterrorism Center, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security circulated to U.S. intelligence agencies, assessing that the ONA poses a violent threat and that it plays an influential role among right-wing terror groups. The report however added that the ONA was rejected by certain groups for inciting its adherents to commit rape and pedophilia.
ONA adherent Andrew Dymock, who was convicted of 15 terror offences, has also been questioned by the police regarding the sexual assault of a teenage girl who had Nazi and occult symbols carved on her body. In July 2020, another ONA adherents Jacek Tchorzewski was convicted by Harrow Crown Court for terror offences and for possessing over 500 pictures and videos depicting children as young as six being raped and necrophilia. Tchorzewski also possessed Nazi and "satanist literature depicting rape and pedophilia". Tchorzewski's co-defendant Michal Szewczuk "ran a blog that encouraged the rape and torture of opponents, including small children" and was likewise sentenced to four years in prison for terror offences. Ethan Melzer also belonged to an encrypted ONA chatroom where adherents encouraged one another to perpetrate sexual violence and shared videos of these rapes.
In March 2020, a prominent ONA adherent and former leader of Atomwaffen Division John Cameron Denton was accused by prosecutors of possessing and sharing child sexual abuse material of a young underage girl by his group, in addition to making 134 death and bomb threats against reporters and minority communities. On 2 September 2020, Harry Vaughan pleaded guilty to 14 terrorism offenses and possession of child sexual abuse material. A police search of his house uncovered videos of brutal rapes of children, documents showing how to build bombs, detonators, firearms, and "satanic, neo-Nazi" ONA books advising rape and murder. In addition to this he was described in the Old Bailey as a firearms enthusiast and living with his two young sisters at the time of the arrest.
2021