NSW man charged over siege believed feminism and ‘cultural Marxism’ threaten white race, court hears

Simon Fleming has pleaded not guilty to multiple charges, including using a fake bomb to create a false sense of danger

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A man who allegedly took two men hostage inside a Wollongong dive shop was motivated by fears feminism and cultural Marxism threatened the white race, prosecutors allege.

In the years before the incident, Simon Fleming, 41, was overtaken by the belief that political correctness, western feminism and cultural Marxism would lead to a “white genocide” that threatened the culture and existence of Anglo-Saxon men, the prosecutor, James Renwick, told a New South Wales supreme court jury on Wednesday.

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