Tim Lutze: Neo-Nazi who proclaims Australia is for the ‘white man’ has his family car firebombed and goes running to the police
A notorious neo-Nazi's family car was bombed in a Christmas Eve attack.
National Socialist Network member Tim Lutze shared footage of his wife's blue Holden Commodore being consumed in a fireball outside his home in Werribee in Melbourne's west.
“Last night, left-wing terrorists set fire to my pregnant wife's car while I was sleeping in the middle of the night,” he said in a video.
“(They) threw Molotov cocktails, others were found in the front yard.
'My children were sleeping inside at the time, it woke us up, the neighbors ran into the street and they (the perpetrators) basically just ran into the night.'
National Socialist Network member Tim Lutze shared footage of his wife's blue Holden Commodore being consumed in a fireball outside his home in Werribee in Melbourne's west.
Mr Lutze said two Molotov cocktails were found in his front garden and failed to ignite into petrol bombs.
“The fire spread to the fence of the house and could have been very bad very quickly,” he said.
'Luckily it is a close-knit community here, all the neighbors came to help.'
Mr Lutze accused anti-fascist activists of carrying out the attack and claimed his group – which claims Australia is for the “white man” – is peaceful.
“These people have no honor to attack a house where children and a pregnant woman are sleeping,” he said.
'The media promotes the narrative that we are violent and that we are terrorists, when we are the opposite of that.
“We remain peaceful at all times, only terrorism is committed against us.”
Victoria Police are now investigating the incident.
Neo-Nazi Tim Lutze has posted footage of his wife's car bursting into flames after it was hit by a petrol bomb outside his home in Melbourne's west on Christmas Eve
The car was left as a burnt-out wreck after the attack, which Victoria Police believed may have involved multiple perpetrators
“Detectives believe a number of perpetrators threw a Molotov cocktail into the window of a vehicle parked outside an address on Bower Drive shortly before 1am,” a police spokesman said.
'The Holden Commodore suffered extensive damage.
'Two further Molotov cocktails were thrown near the property but there was no further damage.'
Mr Lutze was listed as the business director of a gym in Sunshine West that hosted far-right neo-Nazi rallies with photographs showing the interior walls decorated with swastikas and other far-right iconography.
The gym's corporate number was canceled in May, meaning it is no longer a legitimate commercial entity for tax purposes.
Mr Lutze has been photographed performing the Nazi salute, which is now illegal in Victoria, and has been photographed attending several far-right rallies.
The most recent public demonstration in early December saw about 30 masked and black-clad men marching down the main street of the Victorian regional city of Ballarat, 115 kilometers northwest of Melbourne.
Mr Lutze was listed as the business director of a gym in Sunshine West that hosted far-right neo-Nazi rallies with photos showing the interior walls decorated with swastikas and other far-right iconography.
Questions were raised about Victoria Police monitoring and even escorting the group while directing traffic around them.
Project presenter Steve Price also took aim at Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan, accusing her of using “weasel words” to avoid responsibility for allowing masked neo-Nazis to march brazenly down a city's main street.
“She should have had her police minister tell the Victoria police commissioner that you cannot allow people to walk down the street completely covered in masks,” he said.
“The police should have stopped those guys on that street in Ballarat and demanded they unmask or they would have been arrested.”
Victoria Police has been contacted for comment.