{"id":112910,"date":"2025-09-02T10:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T10:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/112910\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T10:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T10:09:09","slug":"neo-nazi-thomas-sewell-arrested-outside-melbourne-court-after-camp-sovereignty-attacked-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/112910\/","title":{"rendered":"Neo-Nazi Thomas Sewell arrested outside Melbourne court after Camp Sovereignty attacked on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Neo-Nazi leader Thomas Sewell has been arrested and is being questioned over his alleged involvement in an attack on a First Nations protest camp in Melbourne on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Police were seen handcuffing Sewell outside the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday afternoon and putting him into a police van, along with two other men.<\/p>\n

He had earlier appeared in court charged with offences related to intimidating a police officer and breaching an intervention order in 2024.<\/p>\n

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Two other men were also arrested outside the magistrates court. (Channel 9)<\/p>\n

On Sunday, about 40 men dressed in black, some armed with flagpoles and sticks violently attacked Camp Sovereignty<\/a> following the anti-immigration March for Australia rally.<\/p>\n

Vision from the attack shows Sewell was part of the group.<\/p>\n

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Camp Sovereignty founder Krautungalung elder Robbie Thorpe told the ABC that four people were injured, including two who spent the night in hospital.<\/a><\/p>\n

Police have released a statement saying detectives from the Melbourne Crime Investigation Unit attended the court on Tuesday about 3:20pm.<\/p>\n

The statement said police arrested a 32-year-old man from Balwyn, a 23-year-old man from Mooroolbark and a 20-year-old man from Ardeer.<\/p>\n

“They are being interviewed in relation to an ongoing investigation into alleged assaults in Kings Domain,” a Victoria Police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

Arrest follows Sewell gate-crashing press conference<\/p>\n

On Tuesday morning, Sewell and an associate gate-crashed a press conference with the Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He shouted insults and accusations at Ms Allan, who quickly left the area while a security detail blocked the men.<\/p>\n

Police earlier said they were aware of the incident, noting the premier’s security team had intervened.<\/p>\n

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Thomas Sewell was intercepted after gatecrashing Premier Jacinta Allan’s press conference earlier in the morning. (AAP: Callum Godde)<\/p>\n

In a video posted to X (formerly Twitter), Ms Allan said she “never expected to come face-to-face with a Neo-Nazi \u2026 at a press conference”.<\/p>\n

“I’ll continue to fight for every single Victorian and push back against this odious, evil behaviour of such a small number of people,” she said.<\/p>\n

“I know that’s not who Victorians truly are.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

During a caucus meeting in Canberra later that morning, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told his colleagues it was “quite horrific” to hear about Sewell’s actions at the press conference.<\/p>\n

Victorian-based federal MP Josh Burns has told the ABC’s Afternoon Briefing that while he could not comment specifically on Sewell’s arrest, he said seeing Neo-Nazis on the steps of parliament was unacceptable.<\/p>\n

“Seeing Neo-Nazis cowardly walk around our streets in masks and in uniform, in black-cladded clothes, cowardly hiding their own identities is completely unacceptable,” Mr Burns said.<\/p>\n

“Having Neo-Nazis turn up to the press conference of the premier and elected officials is completely unacceptable.”<\/p>\n

He said he was proud of Australia’s diversity and multiculturalism.<\/p>\n

“The dark and bigoted views that are being displayed by this small group of cowardly bigots frankly does not represent Australia,” Mr Burns said.<\/p>\n

Victorian senator Lidia Thorpe described the attack on Camp Sovereignty as outrageous.<\/p>\n

She said authorities were aware of the threat Melbourne’s Neo-Nazi group posed to the camp.<\/p>\n

“So I just, I have a lot of questions,” Ms Thorpe said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Neo-Nazi leader Thomas Sewell has been arrested and is being questioned over his alleged involvement in an attack…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,78249,44,80612,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-112910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-neo-nazi","tag-news","tag-thomas-sewell","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}