A POLICE investigation has been launched after concerns were raised regarding a group, labelled “Britain’s fascist threat”, distributing leaflets in mid-Wales towns.

At the start of December, leaflets titled ‘No Afghan Migrants: Put British People First’ were distributed through letter boxes in Aberystwyth by the far-right group, Patriotic Alternative.

On Monday, 6 December, Dyfed Powys Police received two reports of material being posted in Aberystwyth, containing “potential hate-related messaging”. Enquiries into these reports are ongoing.

The leaflets states “charity starts at home” and highlights how many people are homeless in the UK.

However, in September Ceredigion County Council announced, while seeking private accommodation suitable for Afghanistan refugees in the county, a private property that could be used to support homeless people in Ceredigion had been identified as well.

From this process, two suitable private sector homes were found to support refugees fleeing Afghanistan.

At least two families will be accepted for support in Ceredigion, using the systems already in place from the last five years helping refugees from Syria.

Patriotic Alternative claim to be raising awareness of issues “such as the demographic decline of native Britons in the United Kingdom, the environmental impact of mass immigration, and the indoctrination and political bias taking place in British schools”.

But racism advocacy group HOPE not hate labelled Patriotic Alternative as “the largest and most active fascist movement operating in the UK today”.

The Global Network on Extremism and Technology (GNET) found “the profile of its leaders and its discourse of ‘white marginalisation’ and ‘white lives matter’” to be the most concerning, after conducting a content analysis of the group’s online discourse.

GNET is run by the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation, an academic research centre based within the Department of War Studies at King’s College London.

Dr William Allchorn, who published an article on the analysis in February, gave a worrying example of co-leader of Patriotic Alternative Mark Collett referring “to homosexuals as ‘AIDS monkeys’, declaring his admiration for Adolf Hitler and calling asylum seekers ‘cockroaches’”.

The leaflets also made their way into Llanidloes homes after members of the group were sense protesting in the town, handing out leaflets, and posting them through letterboxes.

On 20 November, Llanidloes residents informed the police, but no offense was reported.

Les Wilkins, who did not witness the group himself but spoke to other members of the community about their presence in the town, said those who interacted with them found the group “intimidating”.