Since the disappearance in August 8chan site, meeting point of the alt-right, its members have migrated. The killer in Germany has been associated with two forums, Kohlchan and vch.moe.
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8chan is dead: the forum, which was one of the best known refuges of the far right online, is no longer accessible since August and the slaughter that occurred in El Paso. A far-right terrorist shot dead twenty-one people and broadcast his manifesto "Hispanic invasion" of Texas.
But his spirit, his community and his terrorism have survived him. Jewish and Muslim targets, live video broadcast, online manifesto, rhetoric from the fringes of the Web culture … Stephan B., the author of the attack in Halle (Germany) against a synagogue and a Turkish restaurant, who killed two people on Wednesday 9 October, took over the modus operandi previous killers from the English-speaking forum, where white supremacists from all over the world had their homes.
The perpetrator of the Christchurch bombing in New Zealand, which killed fifty-one people on March 15, broadcast a manifesto about "White genocide" and a link to follow live the massacre he was perpetuating.
Kohlchan, a Germanic equivalent
There is every reason to believe that if 8chan was still online, it was on his pages that Stephan B., who has since been arrested and who confessed to the German justice the antisemitic motivation of his attack, would have signed his passage to the act. But with the forum now inaccessible, it is on another forum less media, the German-speaker Kohlchan, that the first suspicions have taken place. It was closed in the hours following the attack in Halle, while there were copies of the video of the attack filmed by Stephan B. (previously broadcast on Twitch).
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