Grupo 1143 mario machado biography
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Mário Machado
Mário Machado (*1977), is considered among the most influential right-wing extremist activists in Portugal12 and is the founder and leader of several neo-Nazi groups.
Machado has a long criminal record that includes racial discrimination, violent offenses, illegal possession of weapons, defamation, kidnapping and extortion.
Emblem of the Aryan Brotherhood
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Machado was drawn to the neo-Nazi movement in the age of 13, when he became a member of the Group 1143, the most nationalistic faction of Portugal's biggest sports club Juventude Leonina ("Leonina Youth"), of which he later would become the leader.
During a stint in prison between 1995 and 2001, together with other skinheads, many of them also serving time for the racial violence that led to the death of Alcindo Monteiro, he founded the Portuguese chapter of the internationally operating White supremacist Aryan Brotherhood, known for its role in organized crime