The operation was carried out throughout Italy. The youths, many of them minors, frequented supremacist social media groups and exchanged information to build explosive devices.
They published manifestos about the massacres of white supremacist attackers, praising Hitler or Brenton Tarrant, the perpetrator of mosque attacks that killed dozens. But they also proposed techniques for carrying out bombings or constructing explosive devices.
Carabinieri officers from the ROS (Special Operations Unit) and DIGOS (Division of Special Operations) conducted searches in several cities targeting 17 individuals—including 14 minors—accused of propaganda and incitement to crime based on racial and religious discrimination, with aggravating circumstances of terrorism. Some of them participated in the social media group “Chat del Nuovo Ordine Europeo,” others in the “Fronte Fascista Italiano” group, with posts targeting Jews, homosexuals, and people of color.
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Source: Unionesarda.it
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