Neo-Nazi leader Thomas Sewell has been arrested outside a Melbourne court.
Footage from the Nine network showed Sewell being handcuffed outside the Melbourne Magistrate's Court on Tuesday afternoon, along with two supporters.
Victoria Police confirmed to SBS News that three people were arrested outside of the court on Tuesday afternoon, in relation to an ongoing investigation into alleged assaults on Sunday.
Earlier, Sewell and an associate, tried to approach Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan at a scheduled press conference in a West Melbourne park.
"Do we need to pause for a tick?" Allan asked as Sewell arrived, in footage of the incident recorded by the Australian Associated Press.
Prominent neo-Nazi Thomas Sewell moved away by security as he tries to confront Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan on Tuesday morning. Source: AAP / Callum Godde
"You're a coward and we're going to take this country back from politicians like you," Sewell was recorded saying.
Allan abruptly ended the press conference and walked away without comment as Sewell was moved back by security.
Sewell claimed the confrontation was a coincidence as he was on his way to attend court, where he has been charged with intimidating a police officer and breaching an intervention order.
As he walked away, Sewell shouted: "Heil Australia".
In a statement, Allan said she was "unharmed and undeterred" following the morning's events.
"We know how these goons operate. They whip up fear to divide our society. They will fail."
Later on Tuesday in Canberra, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told a Labor caucus meeting in parliament the neo-Nazi crashing the Victorian premier’s press conference was "quite horrific".
Neo-Nazis emboldened by anti-immigration rallies
Sewell is the leader of the National Socialist Network (NSN), which has been recognised as a neo-Nazi group but is not a listed terrorist organisation.
Despite organisers of the weekend's national anti-immigration protests disavowing links to neo-Nazi associations, Sewell took the microphone on Sunday in Melbourne to promote white supremacist ideologies.
Far-right demonstrators were later filmed attacking Camp Sovereignty, a First Nations protest camp in Melbourne, injuring four people.
Victoria Police said on Tuesday Melbourne Crime Investigation Unit detectives were investigating the incident, which happened about 5pm on Sunday at the camp.
"It is understood a group of people were gathered together at Camp Sovereignty, located in King’s Domain off St Kilda Road when they were approached by a second group of people," police said in a statement.
"Officers have been told the second group formed a line in front of the first group, before assaulting various members of the first group with sticks and flag poles."
"I think that when we conflate immigration with all of these other issues, then we feed into the very agenda of the far-right organisations that were part of these marches."
