Layers like an onion

From the Daily Tele:

Picture of extremes
By Joe Hildebrand
April 10, 2006

TO authorities he is Andrew Sanders, an alleged neo-Nazi who is charged with possessing an unauthorised pistol in the wake of the Cronulla riots.

But to the art world he is Val Debauchee, an internationally acclaimed artist whose works have been hung around the globe.

Sanders was arrested at Brighton-le-Sands days after the Cronulla riots.

On his alter-ego’s website, his biography reads: “Debauchee was well travelled in his youth, having spent many years abroad in Europe, Asia and the Americas he developed with a classical education and a passion for history and the arts.”

It was not mentioned he is unemployed and living with his mum Clara in Willmot in outer western Sydney.

Anti-Nazi campaigner Cam Smith, who discovered the website, said Sanders was the most intriguing neo-Nazi he had found.

News brief · 10 April 2006