Sellner and Austrian prosecutors did not respond to requests for comment.
Pettibone claimed that a second reason was that she received an email from a person she did not name asking if Sellner “could give advice to Blair Cottrell regarding building up the rightwing movement in Australia”. In it she describes him as an “anti-Islam activist” and discusses his conviction under Victoria’s Racial and Religious Tolerance Act after he publicised a lurid Mosque protest in Bendigo featuring a mock beheading. That interview is still available on “alt-tech” video platform, BitChute. Sellner’s fiancee, prominent far-right YouTuber and author Brittany Pettibone, announced on her own Twitter account on 18 June that she had been notified she was under investigation.Īccording to Pettibone, the reason was an interview she had done with Cottrell in January 2018. Die Presse reported that prosecutors were looking for “accounting records” and evidence of further donations from Tarrant to Sellner.Īnother newspaper, Der Standard, reported that the investigation had widened to include Sellner’s “partner”. Sellner was first connected with Tarrant after it emerged that the accused had made a €1,500 donation to Sellner’s Identitarian organisation.
Visible on the warrant in German are prosecutors’ reasons for carrying out the search, including “The Manifesto the Great Replacement”, which was released by Tarrant, “the results of a financial analysis”, and the suspicion that Sellner was cooperating with Tarrant in a terrorist and “structurally fascist” organisation. In the second video, Sellner shows what he claims is an excerpt from the warrant police used in raiding his apartment. In the first, which he says was before an interview with police, Sellner says that police removed devices from his home, and that the reason was a “strong suspicion of forming a terrorist organisation with Brenton Tarrant”. In two German-language YouTube videos, Sellner offered his own account of the investigation.
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