VICE: Richard Spencer Held Parties in ‘Fash Loft’ for White Nationalists, Court Hears
By: Integrity First For America News CoverageBy Tess Owen, Vice News. Read the full article here.
An apartment above a chocolate shop in Alexandria, Virginia, belonging to white nationalist Richard Spencer became a social hub for organizers of the Unite the Right rally for the six weeks leading up to the violent August 2017 event in Charlottesville, a court heard Thursday.
It became known as “the fash loft”—and hosted as many as six parties for white nationalist influencers that summer. None of them were recorded.
Spencer is among 20 white nationalist and neo-Nazi figures and organizations standing trial in a massive civil suit that seeks to hold them accountable for the events that took place that weekend in mid-August four years ago.
The suit, which was brought by Integrity First for America on behalf of nine Charlottesville residents who sustained physical and psychological injuries, says the defendants conspired to incite racially motivated violence in the small Virginia college town.