Police spammed complaints from neo-Nazis under Scotland’s new hate crime law
Scotland's hate crime law, which came into force on April 1, has been used by far-right agitators to encourage people to 'report complaints en masse'. Photo: Katherine Anne Rose/The Observer
Neo-Nazis and far-right agitators are taking advantage of Scotland's new hate crime law to make mass nuisance complaints in a bid to 'overwhelm' police systems.
A prominent figure in the white nationalist movement in England is among those urging followers to spam Police Scotland with anonymous online reports, the Observer has found.
The leader of a far-right group - one of several fringe organizations assessed by the UK government under ...