NCRI Contagion and Ideology Report: Ireland’s Emerging Cyber Crisis
- 2023-07-05
In July 2021, a UK national named Mark Wolf was arrested after being caught in possession of firearm parts and guides for printing 3D weapons. 2 The 37-year old far-right sympathizer intended to use his 3D printer to create an arsenal of weapons to use in a terror attack near Dublin, Ireland. 3 Wolf had also contacted a company to purchase explosives sold for civilian use in excavation. 3 Not only did he have the weapons necessary to commit an attack, he also had a clear motive.
Other materials collected during his arrest included neo-Nazi flags and videos of extreme violence against people of color. 3 Wolf was also found with a video recording of the mass shootings that occurred at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2019. 3 The Christchurch attacks were motivated by the “Great Replacement” theory which claims that a “global elite” are replacing white majorities in Europe with immigrants. 4 Based on the materials found at his arrest, Wolf was likely influenced by this same ideology.