A HOODED figure approaches his victim before launching a knife attack on the streets of Stockholm – but what makes this rampage particularly disturbing is that the 14-year-old brainwashed perpetrator is live-streaming the assault for entertainment.
All across Europe, teens are being turned into savage killers from their bedrooms by a sick network of predators who encourage their vulnerable victims to carve names into their own flesh and to stab strangers on camera. The sadistic neo-Nazi group thrives on fear, sexual extortion and live-streamed brutality. We take a look inside their dark world as experts explain how to keep your kids safe online.
This chilling death cult No Lives Matter (NLM) – thought to have been set up around 2020 with hundreds of members – forms part of a wider network of sick groups known as “The Com”.
Its members hunt, groom and blackmail teens through encrypted chat apps such as Telegram – dragging them step-by-step into their sinister world with online humiliation and eventually real-world bloodshed.
Predators use social media sites such as Instagram and Snapchat, as well as gaming platforms like Minecraft and Roblox, to recruit vulnerable youngsters and lure them into committing violent acts, cyber threats expert Dr Joe Whittaker told The Sun.
Dutch investigators have said No Lives Matter is also tied to 764 – the wider and more well-known international Satanic paedo ring run by evil online abusers where monsters abuse girls as young as 11, and where violence and forced self-harm are used for status and control.
And now, Britain, Canada, Australia, Germany and Finland have all issued warnings about these dangerous networks.
The NCA’s Director General, Graeme Biggar, said: “These groups are not lurking on the dark web; they exist in the same online world and platforms young people use on a daily basis.”
The groups bridge together extremist ideologies, grooming, inciting users to self-harm and commit violence, cruelty to animals, and child abuse, Dr Whittaker warned.
He told The Sun: “What they tend to have in common is that they will try and recruit young and vulnerable children.”
And British police are beginning to see cases linked to the 764 in the UK.
Cameron Finnigan, 19, from Horsham, was jailed in January last year after being convicted of planning to kill a homeless man and encouraging a young Italian woman to livestream herself ending her life.
When asked about this sickening act in a police interview, he replied: “The only risk I was concerned about is if she went through with it and I got caught.”
Cops also found an 11-page document detailing how to carry out a “mass casualty” attack against the public, and that he plotted a “terror week” with other members.
Finnigan also planned to murder a homeless man living in a tent near his home and vowed online: “I won’t stop until he’s dead.”
Police also found six Category A child sex abuse images and a video on his computer – something Rob Richardson, head of the NCA’s fight against the group, said is all too common with 764 members.
At the centre of NLM is a terror suspect known as “Cxrpse”, a 25-year-old man known only as Justin B, from the Netherlands.
Believed to be the ringleader of NLM, he was arrested in June last year and charged with instructing victims to commit self-harm, engaging in animal crushing, sharing extreme violent and terrorist material, and the creation of child sex abuse material.
These groups are not lurking on the dark web; they exist in the same online world and platforms young people use on a daily basis
Graeme Biggar,
Justin B – who was also a member of 764 – denied forcing children to self-harm and claimed others used his alias, and is currently being held in the Netherlands’ highest-security terror unit pending trial.
During their investigation into Justin B, Dutch police seized disturbing videos showing victims with “Cxrpse” carved into their bodies. In other harrowing footage, the same name appears written in blood on walls.
The material was circulated inside extremist chatrooms – where leaders demand “proof” of sick crimes such as vandalism, arson, murder, and terrorism – and reward the most shocking acts.
Membership of these groups is usually given to people who are not only willing to carry out demands, but also share sickening evidence in chats. Recruitment posts can offer large cash incentives – including sums up to €20,000 for killings, Europol said.
Terror for entertainment
Dr Whitakker revealed that victims are often recruited on “the sorts of platforms that you would find teenagers on”.
“Social media, Instagram, Snapchat, and also gaming platforms are a really important intersection here, so think Minecraft and Roblox,” he said.
Chillingly, in manuals released by No Lives Matter, readers are reportedly instructed how to select victims for murder, create poisons, choose weapons, and conduct extortion.
Authorities have warned that teenagers as young as 14 carried out knife attacks on random passers-by in Europe after being groomed by the cult. These attacks were then shared for status inside the No Lives Matter network. The goal, investigators say, was terror for entertainment.
A 14-year-old boy live-streamed a series of horror assaults and knife attacks in Stockholm in 2024 – injuring eight people.
Eight videos were posted to joint No Lives Matter and 764 Telegram channels – including two stabbings – which eventually led to his arrest as cops connected the incidents.
The biggest age bracket has been 11 to 15… it’s usually about 40 per cent who are within that age bracket
Dr Joe Whitakker
Prosecutors said he admitted to stabbing an 80-year-old man in the back during an interview with police.
But he was below Sweden‘s age of criminal responsibility at the time of the attacks and cannot be charged criminally with attempted murder. Instead, he will pay “substantial damages”, the court said.
British kids as young as 11 are also being targeted by these sadistic groups, Dr Whitakker revealed. He said children made up a “huge percentage” of the UK’s counter terrorism system.
The cyber threats analyst said: “For the last few years now, the biggest age bracket has been 11 to 15… I think it’s usually about 40 per cent who are within that age bracket.
“And then usually the second biggest category is 15 and 16, and then the third biggest category, really scary, is under 11.”
Cyber-grooming horror
In Hamburg, a trial is underway that has been described as one of the most disturbing child abuse cases brought before a German court.
At the centre of the case is the death of a 13-year-old boy in the US who, according to prosecutors, was subjected to prolonged grooming and psychological pressure by Shahriar J., known online as “White Tiger” – before being instructed to take his own life.
Investigators say the boy died while the suspect watched live via his phone.
Prosecutors argue that the methods used mirror those seen across the wider 764 and No Lives Matter – isolating vulnerable minors, escalating demands, and systematically stripping away their ability to refuse.
Although there was no physical contact, investigators say the level of control exercised online was so extreme that it amounts to direct responsibility for death under German law.
German investigators warned that these warped groups are adaptive, international and capable of translating online sadism into self-harm, violence and lethal outcomes.
Europol’s Claire Georges told The Sun: “The mechanics are similar.
“Recruitment, coercion, rewards, escalation. You can see the same logic in violent online groups such as No Lives Matter and 764, even if the branding and ideology differ.”
Speaking on links to neo-Nazism and extreme ideologies, Dr Whittaker revealed “the glue that binds a lot of those groups together”.
He said accelerationism – the view that the world is kind of on the decline – was a huge part of most groups.
“There’s also a bit of overlap with individuals in the incel spaces as well,” he explained.
In another case in Germany, a 20-year-old man was arrested in June last year on suspicion of running a “complex international cyber-grooming operation” as part of “764”.
Prosecutors said he is suspected of 120 crimes against eight victims aged 11 to 15 from Germany, England, Canada, and the US.
At least four arrests have been made in the UK, and the National Crime Agency (NCA) said incidents have increased sixfold in the last two years, and the membership is in the hundreds.
The four cases include 17-year-old Vincent Charlton, who was jailed in 2024 after police uncovered videos of a girl slicing his name into her body with a knife.
The NCA’s Graeme Biggar, said the trend was “deeply concerning” – and called on everyone from law enforcement to parents and teachers – to help reduce the risk of “sadistic and violent online gangs”.
He said: “It is especially concerning to see the impact this is having on young girls who are often groomed into hurting themselves and in some cases, even encouraged to attempt suicide.
“The NCA is coordinating UK law enforcement’s response to this emerging threat.
“I’d encourage parents and carers to have regular conversations with their child about what they do online, and ensure they know they have your support should they need it.”
Recruitment, coercion, rewards, escalation. You can see the same logic in violent online groups such as No Lives Matter and 764, even if the branding and ideology differ
Claire Georges,
Asked about the relevance of TV shows like Adolescence for parents in today’s world, Dr Whittaker noted: “The age of potentially radicalising young people is getting younger and younger.
“The thing that Adolescence really gets right is that there is a concern some young boys might be given a sense of belonging.”
He also said the show portrayed how young boys can “build up victimhood narratives” before being driven to engage in depraved acts.
Experts said these types of groups, which have overlapping memberships, are usually social outsiders who find each other through toxic platforms and messaging services.
Dr Whittaker said it was unclear if these networks target certain types of young people, but noted that recruits often have “specific vulnerabilities, either mental health or biodiversity”.
He explained: “People who are maybe struggling in their day-to-day life at school and things like that, and therefore are potentially a little bit more vulnerable to these kind of techniques.”
Claire Finlay, the head of Counter Terrorism Policing Southeast, said: “The threat that they pose, not just within the United Kingdom but globally, is immense.”
‘Get them young, and they are yours forever’
764 – set up in 2021 – was named after the Texas postcode of teen founder Bradley Cadenhead, who is serving an 80-year sentence on charges of child pornography.
They find vulnerable teenage girls on communication apps and specifically hunt down youngsters with eating disorders and mental health issues.
In the chilling 101-page “sexploitation playbook” recently seen by the Observer, they advised members how to target young victims online – headed with the quote: “Get them young, and they’re yours forever.”
Despite 764 originating in the US, Dr Whittaker highlighted that this group – and others in “The Com” network – can expand “globally very quickly”.
Europol says minors are increasingly recruited and tasked via social media, using coded language and gamification, and are used for violent crimes such as extortion and killings.
It said children are involved in more than 70 per cent of criminal markets.
In the Netherlands, alleged No Lives Matter ringleader Justin B was known to authorities long before his terror arrest.
Aged 16, he strangled a teenage girl until she passed out, beating and threatening her. He was convicted of attempted manslaughter. Years later, he joined violent Covid riots.
According to court filings, messages linked to Justin B showed repeated glorification of terror attacks.
He allegedly photo-shopped his own face onto the body of Anders Breivik, the Norwegian mass killer who murdered 77 people.
Prosecutors also claimed he glorified white supremacist Brenton Tarrant, who killed 51 people during attacks on two mosques in New Zealand in 2019.
In another message, he shared footage of a man being shot in the head – adding a line that stunned investigators.
In a chilling note, he said: “I want to do that so badly to someone’s head. Brains on my shoes. Everything.”
His lawyer, Stijn van Merm, described him as “a troubled young man who started doing very dangerous things”, according to Dutch media.
He is suspected of membership in a terrorist organisation aimed at destabilising society and glorifying violence. He will undergo a psychiatric assessment, expected to conclude in February 2026.
The Cxrpse account left NLM around 2023, and Justin B’s lawyer said his client left the Com network shortly before his arrest in late 2025.
The next court hearing is set for March 10, when judges will review his detention and the progress of the investigation.
Meanwhile, authorities warn that the full scale of the network is still unknown.
Europol’s Georges said: “There is a lot more happening behind the scenes.
“We have not yet been able to say much about it, because it’s very large.”
Dr Whittaker explained what authorities can do to counter these decentralised networks, often quite difficult to infiltrate.
“There’s good old-fashioned undercover policing, and you can absolutely bet in any one of these Telegram groups there will be people from MI5, people from the Met, people from all kinds of specialist counterterrorism and grooming units, and they will do what they can,” he said.
The other option for countering these groups is trying to take their sites down.
But he noted that perpetrators of this kind are “extremely tech-savvy, and it usually takes a very short time for these kind of networks to become up and running again”.
Giving words of wisdom to British parents, he said: “Have really open and honest, non-judgemental conversations with your children about what they’re doing online.”
