Uni to take legal action over National Action campus video

Concerned uni staff will take legal action against the makers of a terrifying video posted by far right group National Action. 

A video was posted online of neo-nazi extremists marching in both Warwick and Coventry university, flaunting a flag closely resembling that of Hitler’s Brownshirts.

Extremist action particularly occurred near the Warwick history department

In a statement to history students, the department said: “We have taken legal action to have the video removed from the hosting site and against those thought to be responsible for it.

“The university does not think that there is a significant risk of intimidation of staff or students.”

However despite assurance of no further risk, students have still raised their anxieties and thoughts about the “deplorable behaviour”.

They display the swastika in plain site.

Second year James Stannard said: “The whole aim of their walkabout was intimidation, to remind us that they’re still a presence in society.

“It seems to me they’re just hanging around like a bad smell. They are a presence that is worrying, yet difficult to take seriously as a genuine threat.”

One of their leaders is Alex Davies, who was forced to leave the university last year.

This in itself is a ‘fundamental contradiction’, James continues. ‘On one hand they’re calling for fair action, but on the other they’re relying on threats to get what they want’.

Second year Law student Ricardo Bescos said: “The university is a closed institution that has no duty whatsoever to tolerate politically discriminating rhetoric of any kind, let alone give it a stage where to express such short-sighted views’.’

Literature student Lewis Merryweather said: ‘‘Freedom of speech does not include the right to insight hatred. It goes against university policy, and is against the law’’.

The Neo-Nazi’s attempting to enter lecture halls in the Humanities building.

Ollie Dean, a politics student only worries that their message may catch on in university, further strengthening their cause.  He added: “Most Warwick Students would be sensible enough to distance themselves from such groups.”

In the video, the extremists say that ‘we will continue to target colleges and universities’.