21 January 2023 , 21:24
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An Adolf Hitler lookalike stands on a city centre plinth and spouts extreme right-wing views to anyone who will listen to his poison.
Alek Yerbury, who has a clipped moustache and waxed down hair – just like the Second World War leader of the Nazi Party – has been branded the Hull Hitler.
The trenchcoat-wearing white supremacist is a rising star in Patriotic Alternative – described as the UK’s “largest and most dangerous fascist organisation” by lobbying group Hope not Hate.
It is thought to have a few hundred followers in Yorkshire, who wade into issues, typically about asylum seekers, in an attempt to stir up division.
Nazi leader Adolf Hitler (Popperfoto via Getty Images)Yerbury, 27, claims he is “standing up for the rights of indigenous people”. He stood under a statue of Queen Victoria in Hull last weekend as he spread his vile views.
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PA’s leader Mark Collett, a Holocaust denier and ex-BNP official, and his deputy, Laura Towler, also spoke. After the event, Yerbury exaggerated that 250 nationalists had turned up.
PA’s leader Mark Collett and his deputy Laura TowlerJust like Hitler, he is an ex-soldier. Yerbury served six years in the British Army’s 5 Rifles armoured battalion, but says he quit because of his “disgust with the political class”.
His speeches have included “The Struggle Against Marxism” – one of Hitler’s twisted ideologies that led to the murder of six million Jews.
And he has spoken alongside Andreas Johansson, of the Nordic Resistance Movement – outlawed in parts of Scandinavia due to its links to violence and the death of a protester.