# Source note — Danny Tommo / Belgium police Reel

Date checked: 2026-07-20

## Evidence label
PBC Outside Canada profile/source-card. The Instagram Reel is treated as a social lead and self-report. Independent sources verify Danny Thomas / Danny Tommo's public anti-migration activism, links to Operation Overlord, French police/ban context, and critical descriptions of the network, but the specific Belgium police/hotel-search and death-threat details remain primarily from Danny Thomas's own Instagram/X account in this pass.

## Social lead
- Instagram URL: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXyV2LDsR0l/
- Account: `dannythomasnew`, verified, displayed as Danny Thomas.
- Browser-visible caption: “Belgium Police basically surround me while I’m live streaming…” and claims Belgian police watched the livestream, took him back to his hotel, checked ID and searched the place.
- Caption also claims migrant-trafficking gangs threatened to shoot him in the head and says French authorities had already banned him.
- Direct `yt-dlp` download failed with Instagram empty media response; browser showed the public caption, preview image and media resource URLs.

## Who he is
- Online name: Danny Tommo / Danny Thomas.
- Public footprint found: Instagram `dannythomasnew`; YouTube channel title `Danny Tommo`; X search identified `@RealDannyTommo` as associated with the same material.
- iNews describes Daniel Thomas as a leading anti-migrant vigilante, former bodyguard of Tommy Robinson, and as someone who describes himself as a “right-wing patriot.”
- iNews reports he had been associated with Raise the Colours and filmed himself approaching migrants on Calais beaches and slashing small boats used to cross the Channel.

## Topic
The Reel is about European/UK Channel migration politics, Belgium as a reported small-boat departure route, activist livestreaming, police monitoring and the anti-migrant direct-action project called “Operation Overlord.”

## What is verified outside the Reel
- iNews, Guardian, Le Monde and Searchlight reported on British activists connected to Operation Overlord / anti-migrant activity in France, detentions or bans, and French public-order concerns.
- Searchlight reports French authorities issued territorial bans on ten British far-right activists tied to Raise the Colours and said activities included searching for/destroying small boats and disseminating provocative propaganda.
- The National reported Danny Thomas videos in Dumfries and described his claims about a refugee as unsubstantiated, with Police Scotland not confirming the sexual-offence allegation.

## What remains self-reported / unverified here
- Belgian police watching the livestream.
- Belgian officers searching his hotel room.
- The exact legal basis of any Belgian police action.
- The claimed threat by trafficking gangs to shoot him.
- The broader claim that authorities “don’t want the truth coming out.”

## Preserved artifacts
- `instagram-public.html`
- `instagram-meta.json`
- `instagram-preview.jpg`
- `search-results.json`
- `source-extracts.json`
- `source-summary.json`
- media/reporting captures listed in this folder.