Austrian intelligence agents have searched the Vienna home of a far-right activist after a possible donation by the accused Christchurch mosque gunman.
Austrian authorities have searched the home of a prominent far-right activist as part of a probe into his ties to theMartin Sellner, head of the white nationalist group Identitarian Movement of Austria, said on social media that police searched his apartment on Monday.
Hansjoerg Bacher, a spokesman for Graz prosecutors, said they had stumbled across the donation as part of an existing probe into possible financial offences by Mr Sellner. "Most donations were in the area of two-to-three figures, whereas this donation was in the low four-figure area," Mr Bacher said."This made it stand out and the events in New Zealand put a face to this donation."
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