 On their website and Facebook page, they cite the works of Aleksandr Dugin, Dominique Venner, and Alain de Benoist as major influences.In May 2018, Austrian state prosecutors announced that they were going to press criminal charges against Martin Sellner and 9 other prominent activists in the movement, among 7 "active sympathisers".The prosecutors cited laws used to combat the mafia, claiming that those accused were guilty of forming a criminal organisation.