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A newDaily Beast report reveals that members of a European alt-right group aim to defend Europe by chasing down boats full of Libyan refugees off the coast of Italy.

After successfullyraising more than 50,000 poundsfor boats andequipment, the Defend Europe project led by a group who call themselves Identitarians wrote thatthey are on a mission to rescue Europe by defending the Mediterranean Sea by stopping illegal immigration.

The illegal immigrants they claim to be stopping are, according to theBeast, the thousands of migrants and refugees who arrive in Italy from Libya every week. Their methods include attacking humanitarian ships and they have claimed they will protect Europes borders at sea at any cost.

Although most of the Libyans who make the dangerous journey to Italy via the Mediteranneando not do so legally, many humanitarian groups aim to help them and according to the Beast,those groups are also the targets of Identitarian ire.

When the governments fail, we step in because this land is ours, the Identitarians said in a video describing their Defend Europe mission. It starts and has to end here.

Last month, Defend Europe members hit a humanitarian ship owned by a French organization calledSOS Mditerrene. The Identitarian ship reportedly bore Canadian activist Lauren Southern, a supporter of American President Donald Trump.

TheBeast report also suggests the tiny boat of fringe activists might have been gained access to the SOS Mditerrene due to either overt or implied help by Sicilian prosecutorCarmelo Zuccaro, an official well-known for his stance against immigrants and the nongovernmental organizations that aid them.

The Identitarian movement began in France in the early 2000s, but has spread through Europes wealthier nations where anti-immigration sentiments are strongest. They are reportedly close with the American alt-right so much so that they often fly the same flag bearing the Greek lambda.

Watch video of the attack on the SOSMditerrene below.

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European alt-right activists 'protect Europe's borders' by chasing refugees away at sea: report - Raw Story