Thread by @bellingcat

6 letters of graffiti in a photo for only seven minutes – that's all it took for @ColborneMichael to start following a trail in Serbia that led right to US white supremacist Robert Rundo – a man Serbian authorities kicked out of the country in February.
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In November 2020 @ColborneMichael showed how US white supremacist Rob Rundo was building a base for himself and his activities in the Serbian capital.
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A few months later, in February 2021, Serbian authorities expelled him from the country into Bosnia. Since then Rundo's laid low, assumed to be in Bosnia. But after one of his far-right comrades described him publicly as being "on the run again," we wondered where he could be.

Fortunately, Rundo was there to help us out. He posted a photo on Nov 8 of himself in front of a piece of graffiti, a photo he quickly deleted and cropped to hide a key detail – the name of an area of Belgrade.

So @ColborneMichael took to the streets of Zvezdara to try and find the graffiti. After a few hours, he found it on the side of an apartment building – and, unexpectedly, saw a man strongly resembling Rundo on an apartment balcony there.

Through subsequent observations – and through more open-source information provided by Rundo himself – we found that this man is highly likely to be Rundo and that he knew this part of Belgrade well. This 2020 image was taken on the same balcony:

But is Rundo in Serbia legally? Serbia's interior ministry didn't respond to us by press time to clarify Rundo's legal status in the country. Either way, Rundo clearly didn't want to be found. Read @ColborneMichael's investigation here.
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