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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Vikram Dodd Police and crime correspondent

Far right ‘mimicking video games to lure middle class children to terrorism’

Boy playing a video game on a home computer
The extreme right is exploiting young people’s interest in gaming, Jukes says. Photograph: Milan Jovic/Getty Images

Children from middle class backgrounds are being lured into extreme rightwing terrorism with online content based on violent video games shaped to indoctrinate them, Britain’s most senior counter-terrorism officer has said.

Assistant commissioner Matt Jukes said that 19 out of 20 children aged under 18 who were arrested last year for terrorism offences were linked to an extreme rightwing ideology.

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