Massachusetts’ attorney general has filed suit against prominent New England neo-Nazi group the Nationalist Social Club, also known as NSC-131, alleging the group’s activities have violated state civil rights laws and interfered with public safety.

“NSC-131 has engaged in a concerted campaign to target and terrorize people across Massachusetts and interfere with their rights. Our complaint is the first step in holding this neo-Nazi group and its leaders accountable for their unlawful actions against members of our community,” Attorney General Andrea Campbell said in a statement Thursday. “My office will continue to do all it can to protect our residents’ and visitors’ civil rights and public safety.”

The suit filed Thursday in Suffolk Superior Court targets the organization itself as well as two of its leaders, Christopher Hood and Liam McNeil. It cites what the AG’s office calls “an escalating series of unlawful and discriminatory incidents” between July 2022 and January of this year. Those incidents include demonstrations at “Drag queen story hours” and at hotels housing recently arrived migrants to Massachusetts.

The group in 2021, according to the complaint, announced that its members would “SHUT DOWN DRAG QUEEN STORY HOURS IN THE NEW ENGLAND AREA UNTIL ALL RELATED EVENTS CEASE” and then proceeded to do what the announcement promised by demonstrating with “threatening, intimidating and coercive behavior” at such events, which include events in July 2022 and August 2022 in Boston, an event in December 2022 in Fall River and an event in January in Taunton.

NSC-131 on social media said that housing migrants, which they termed “invaders,” was part of a scheme to replace white people. The incidents where the group allegedly trespassed on hotel property, intimidated and threatened employees and guests and harassed residents employees cited in the complaint occurred in October 2022 in Kingston, three occasions in August in Woburn and September in Marlboro.

This is a developing story.