Terrorgram’s First Saint: Analyzing Accelerationist Terrorism in Bratislava

On October 12, 2022, 19-year-old Juraj Krajčík perpetrated a terrorist attack that killed two people and injured one outside an LGBTQ+ bar in the center of Bratislava, Slovakia. Krajčík was deeply motivated by the militant accelerationism movement, the so-called Saint Culture, and Terrorgram, which occupies a prominent space within Telegram’s far-right ecosystem. 

The Accelerationism Research Consortium (ARC) has produced an innovative report that uses a multi-disciplinary approach to assess the empirical evidence of the case by combining the authors’ unique skill sets in terrorism, international security, threat assessment, and forensic linguistics. The report provides a forensic analysis of the attack and its aftermath; the attacker’s life before the event; and the attacker’s targeted violence manifesto, suicide note, tweets, and 4chan comments and, in turn, provides groundbreaking evidence in support of the hypothesis that the shooter did not write his manifesto alone. The report culminates in an assessment of the role of militant accelerationist milieus (e.g., Terrorgram) that were central to the attacker’s radicalization and subsequent mobilization, which will be useful to researchers, law enforcement, tech platforms, and policymakers.

The PDF version of the report can be found here.