RCMP Probes Allegations That Online Terror Group Is Targeting BC Kids

Federal police in British Columbia are investigating three alleged incidents involving children being targeted by a violent online terrorist organization notorious for grooming or pressuring children and teens into committing violent acts.

Three cases have been reported in the Victoria area involving an online group, known as “764,” that preys on kids, the West Shore RCMP said in a press release.

Three children between the ages of 10 and 14 were coerced into online sexual exploitation and committing acts of self-violence before providing the content to the perpetrator, an RCMP spokesperson said in a statement to the media.

764 is a decentralized transnational network of online nihilistic violent extremists, whose core beliefs are rooted in a hatred of humanity, according to Public Safety Canada’s terrorist list. The group rejects all forms of religious, moral, and social values and pushes the belief that life is meaningless.

The network is known for targeting adolescents and children as young as eight, often pressuring them into capturing and distributing intimate images or committing acts of violence, self-harm, and animal cruelty, police said.

The 764 group is affiliated with a larger network referred to as “the Com,” which glorifies serious violence, cruelty, and gore, police said.

“Groups within ‘the Com’ network are known to have extreme ideological views and are victimizing children through desensitizing and radicalizing them to violence,” the West Shore RCMP said, adding that they frequently operate on social media platforms such as Discord, Telegram, Roblox, Minecraft, and Twitch.

“Predators use grooming processes that can include establishing trusting or romantic relationships; or using power or coercive tactics to get victims to engage in serious violence, self harm, or gore activities,” according to the release.

Terrorism Threat

Canada became the first country to officially classify the 764 network as a terrorist organization.

The group’s designation under the Criminal Code was officially announced in December 2025 when Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree also listed several other groups as terror entities. The other groups included neo-Nazi networks the Maniac Murder Cult and the Terrorgram Collective.

“The threat posed by ideologically motivated violent extremism, whether it is in the real world or online, is extremely serious,” he said in a press release. “The groups we have just listed prey upon people who are at-risk, especially our youth, and they must be stopped.”

The RCMP announced terrorism charges against a Quebec City man this spring, after accusing him of posting violent content online in a bid to radicalize minors for the 764 Network.

Police said charges were filed against 26-year-old Jeffrey Roussel in connection with “graphic, violent, and highly disturbing content” being published online to recruit young people.

He was charged with participating in the activity of a terrorist group, facilitating terrorist activity, and the commission of an offence for a terrorist group.

Warning Signs

The RCMP is urging parents to monitor their children’s online activity and be watchful for signs of recruitment.

Warning signs include dropping grades, mood swings, becoming quiet and withdrawn, isolating in their room, and excessive use of the internet and online platforms, the RCMP said in a separate post.

The 764 network often persuades victims to participate in “gore” activities, the RCMP said. Cut signs are one such activity and involve the child being persuaded to carve the name of the group or their tormentor’s online nickname into their skin.

“This almost always escalates over time, but can also increase rapidly,” the website reads. “The predator influences the child or youth into conducting acts that increasingly shame, incriminate, or isolate them, making them vulnerable to further exploitation.”

These acts can include recording or photographing themselves, siblings or others in sexually explicit poses, harming or killing animals, committing other acts of violence, or attempting suicide.

Other serious warning signs include writing in blood or what appears to be blood, extreme rhetoric, and a fascination with violence, school shootings, serial killers, or the occult.

Parents or other adults who suspect that a child is being targeted by such an organization are advised to report their concerns to Cybertip.ca or to the local authorities immediately, the RCMP said.  In cases where the child is in imminent danger, call 911.