27 Mar 2019

White supremacists going underground - ex far-right leader

From Morning Report, 7:44 am on 27 March 2019
Kyle Chapman (left) and Vaughan Tocker of the Right Wing Resistance Movement. Mr Chapman left after a falling out with the group.

Kyle Chapman (left) and Vaughan Tocker of the Right Wing Resistance Movement. Mr Chapman left after a falling out with the group. Photo: RNZ /SUPPLIED

A former leading figure in far-right nationalist groups says the public and political reaction to the Christchurch mosque attacks is forcing white nationalists underground. Kyle Chapman, a one time leader of the National Front, the Right Wing Resistance, and Survive groups, says he's turned his back on the far right politics of race and nationalism and lives quietly in Christchurch. He tells Gyles Beckford the backlash following the shootings has scared far right followers and groups.