Pavol Beňadik

Pavol Beňadik, operating online under the alias "Slovakbro," is a Slovak national who co-founded the Terrorgram Collective in the summer of 2019 alongside Canadian co-founder Matthew Althorpe. He built the initial infrastructure of what became one of the most consequential accelerationist neo-Nazi networks in the world, created at least five neo-Nazi Telegram channels and two group chats, and directly mentored Juraj Krajčík - the perpetrator of the October 2022 Bratislava LGBTQ+ bar shooting - from age 16. Beňadik was arrested by Slovak authorities in May 2022 and subsequently sentenced to six years in prison for inciting the overthrow of the democratic system and acts of terrorism, the first major prosecution of a Terrorgram figure.¹

Founding of Terrorgram

Beňadik began creating neo-Nazi Telegram content in the immediate aftermath of the Brenton Tarrant Christchurch attacks of March 2019, when the accelerationist community had been partially displaced from Iron March-successor spaces by deplatforming. At approximately 19 to 20 years of age, he launched channels that drew the growing post-Christchurch accelerationist Telegram ecosystem into a more coherent network. His initial work attracted Althorpe, who had been operating as an Atomwaffen Division propagandist, and together they formalized the Terrorgram Collective as an inner circle committed to producing professional-quality propaganda.

Beňadik's channels posted bomb-making instructions, accelerationist ideological content, and the Saints Culture graphics that became Terrorgram's most recognizable output - trading-card-style tributes to far-right mass shooters framed as models for emulation.²

Mentorship of Juraj Krajčík

Beňadik's most consequential documented activity was his sustained personal mentorship of Juraj Krajčík of Slovakia, who had entered Terrorgram's channels in August 2019 at age approximately 16. Over the following three years, Beňadik mentored Krajčík through the network's radicalization pathway, calling explicitly for the creation of "saints" from Slovakia. Krajčík cited Beňadik by his alias in the manifesto he left before carrying out the October 12, 2022 attack at Tepláreň, an LGBTQ+ bar in Bratislava, in which two people were killed and one wounded.

The Bratislava attack was identified by Terrorgram community members and researchers as the first "saint" event produced by the network's mentorship activities. Beňadik had been arrested by Slovak authorities in May 2022, five months before the attack, but Krajčík completed the act anyway based on the years of prior mentorship.¹³

Arrest and Conviction

Slovak authorities arrested Beňadik in May 2022 as part of an investigation into his Telegram activities. He faced more than 200 terrorism-related charges under Slovak law. He was convicted and sentenced to six years in a Slovak prison for inciting the overthrow of the democratic constitutional system and for acts of terrorism. The conviction made him the first Terrorgram Collective figure to be imprisoned and established that at least one jurisdiction was prepared to treat the network's online activities as actionable terrorism offenses.

His arrest preceded by more than two years the U.S. arrests of Dallas Humber and Matthew Robert Allison in September 2024, and the Canadian arrest of Althorpe in December 2023.