The Annual Internal Security Report (Rasi) reveals that theThe new far-right nationalist movements have a strong ‘online’ presence and charismatic leaders who act as true ‘influencers’. A “ proliferation of conversation channelsincreasingly diverse and sophisticated, including ‘online’ game platforms, and content sharing groups, which promote mass diffusion of extremist content and facilitate recruitment and (self) radicalization processes. “
Extreme right advertising has gained strength in Portugal in the 2024 elections and there are increasingly younger, many under 16, to be enticed online by these movements, the internal security report reveals.
In the chapter dedicated to global threats to internal securitythe 2024 Annual Internal Security Report (RASI) states that ” Traditional ‘skinheads’ movements of white supremacy and neo -narani matrixcharacterized by their street actions and violence, they cannot be as appealing to young people as the new far-right nationalist movements with a strong ‘online’ presence and charismatic leaders who act as true ‘influencers”.
The document underlines that “a proliferation of conversation channelsincreasingly diverse and sophisticated, including ‘online’ game platforms, and content sharing groups, which promote mass diffusion of extremist content and facilitate recruitment and (self) radicalization processes. “
“The online platforms have been the privileged stage of acting of the far-right decentralized movements of acceleration and/or satanic matrix, where, through a communication culture through memesrecruit and radicalize more and younger individuals, many of them with ages under 16 years “, needs the rasi, considering that the evolution of this phenomenon in recent years” imposes that the threat represented by eventual lonely actors of far rightespecially minors, cannot be despised. “
The report also points out that the Portuguese far-right “pointed out a sharp dynamism” and widely explored the two electoral periods of 2024 – legislatures and European – to intensify symbolic actions, protest and propaganda as a vehicle for the diffusion of their ideas.
“The persistence and visibility of these actions are beginning to enhance the public narrative against ethnic, religious or sexual minorities with a certain degree of normalization and, in some cases, to serve as a legitimation for acts of violence” according to Rasi, now approved by the Superior Council of Internal Security.
The document also gives note that it was possible to see last year in street actions “some far-right structures in the organization of counter-reaction to the announcement of public manifestations by far-left groups or movements, especially in immigration-related articles or gender ideology.”
In relation to the Portuguese far left, Rasi indicates that “the year 2024 was marked by a Intense activity of the environmental movement of anticapitalist matrix For the cause of climate justice, translated into multiple actions of high media impact, including acts of vandalism “, and these activists have also been highlighted in the contestation of local communities to lithium exploration projects in Portugal.
The Palestinian cause also continued to mobilize several sectors of the far-left Portuguesesays the document, stressing the “strong affinity between the environmental movement and pro-palestinian activism”.
About Terrorism while threatening internal securityRasi highlights, through information from the Portuguese Republic Information System (SIRP) and the Judicial Police (PJ), the “existence of Propaganda Jihadista ‘Online’ Facilitator of radicalization and recruitment, especially in the younger layers “.
Rasi will now be sent to the Assembly of the Republic.
