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Reporting by Kevin Nguyen and Pat McGrath Last week, Independent senator Lidia Thorpe was the target of a video released on social media that saw a masked Neo-Nazi burning an Aboriginal flag while performing a Nazi salute. In a Melbourne press conference on Thursday, Senator Thorpe — who has been campaigning for a No vote in the Voice to parliament referendum — accused the AFP of failing to protect her from racist abuse and threats.
A forensic analysis by ABC Investigations suggests reasonable grounds to suspect Melbourne men Jimeone Roberts and Stefanos Eracleous are behind the footage which sparked national outrage last week. They are members of the white supremacist group National Socialist Network . The ABC has also found Eracleous is behind a racist harassment campaign targeting Ms Thorpe and other high-profile Indigenous Australians, which has intensified during the Voice to Parliament referendum. Read more below.
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