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The Metropolitan Republican Club in Manhattan was vandalized, with broken windows and doors disfigured with anarchist symbols, before the appearance of a right provocateur, Gavin McInnes, banned by Twitter for violating its policy of "violent extremist groups".
The degradation occurred Thursday night or Friday morning, according to Edward F. Cox, president of the Republican Party of New York. He added that a police report had been filed.
"I do not remember anything like that," said Cox.
A note left with vandalism suggested that the damage to the building located in the Upper East Side could be related to the next appearance of Mr. McInnes, founder of the Proud Boys, an organization described as a hate group by Southern Poverty law. Center. The group is committed in several battles with the left.
The note seemed to refer to Mr. McInnes. "The Metropolitan Republican Club has chosen to invite a hipster-fascist clown to dance for them, just reveling in their betrayal of humanity," he said.
By making public the appearance of Mr. McInnes, the Republican group The Facebook page called him "this godfather of the Hipster movement". She also stressed that he had been "banned from Twitter" and that he "had attacked and exposed the socialists of the deep state and defended Western values".
And in an Instagram post promoting the event, Mr. McInnes wrote that he would "restore" the "inspiring moment" when the leader of the Japanese Socialist Party was assassinated by a samurai sword.
The event drew the attention of a group that called itself the Metropolitan Anarchist Coordinating Council, which asked the Metropolitan Republican Club to cancel it.
Twitter removed Mr. McInnes and the Proud Boys accounts in August, before a rally in Washington following the rally of the 2017 White Nationalists in Charlottesville, which had become violent.
"We can confirm that these accounts were suspended from Twitter and Periscope for violating our policy of banning violent extremist groups," Twitter said at the time.
The note found at the club also warned that "our attack is only a beginning".
"We are not passive, we are not civilians and we will not apologize," reads the book.
The note attacked Democrats and Republicans, but began by saying that vandals were putting the Republican Party "in abeyance."
The Metropolitan Republican Club is home to both the Republican Party of New York State and the Republican Party of Manhattan, led by Andrea Catsimatidis, the former daughter-in-law of Mr. Cox.
"It's something that does not belong to politics and should be condemned by all Democratic candidates," Cox said of the building's deterioration.
Marcus J. Molinaro, the Republican candidate for governorship in New York, also called on Democrats to denounce the incident. "We must not resort to violence in any way," he said.
Democrats did exactly that. "The New York Democrats have zero tolerance for violence in our political system and condemn this latest act of vandalism," said Geoff Berman, executive director of the state's Democratic Party. "This type of division is repugnant to anything we believe as New Yorkers."
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