Recruitment Flyers For White Supremacist Group Found In Greenwich: PD

GREENWICH, CT — The Greenwich Police Department said Thursday morning that several residents in town have found recruitment flyers for a white supremacist group in their driveways.

Lt. Patrick Smyth of the GPD said the flyers were discovered in plastic bags containing gravel. No particular area of town was targeted, Smyth told Patch, noting that the distribution was seemingly random.

The identity of the person or persons who distributed them has not yet been identified.

"There were no direct threats made in the flyer to any specific group of people or religious belief," Smyth said, noting that there was no mention of Greenwich in the materials.

The flyers appear to be part of "the latest propaganda effort" by the group, Smyth added. Police said they are not releasing copies of the flyers so as to not promote the group that distributed them.

Smyth said flyers promoting the group have turned up in other Connecticut communities over the past year.

In March of this year, hate literature was distributed in several Stamford neighborhoods.

The United Jewish Federation of Stamford, New Canaan and Darien said in an emailed announcement at the time that antisemitic and racist flyers were left on driveways by a New England-based neo-Nazi group with chapters in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont.

It's unclear if the same group is responsible for the latest flyers found in Greenwich.

The legitimacy and origin of the materials found in Greenwich are currently under investigation, Smyth said.

Any resident who finds one of the flyers should send information to the GPD at TIPS@greenwichct.org.