Terrorism, a right-wing extremist arrested in Puglia

A right-wing extremist was arrested in Puglia for terrorism, with the accusation of having carried out recruitment, propaganda and incitement to crime for reasons of racial, ethnic and religious discrimination. It is a young man of 23, belonging to theorganization white supremacist The base, founded by an American who now lives in Russia. From the police investigations it emerged that it promoted misogynistic, anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi content on a Telegram channel (of which Wired does not spread the name to avoid attracting people to the channel or related channels), including death threats to Senator Liliana Segre.

According to the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the judge of the Court of Bari, who ordered the arrest, the boy “He was ready for the ultimate sacrifice for the defense of the white race“as reported Handle. In his house a carbine, a crossbow and other weapons were found, on which there were engravings written in the runic alphabet – including the othala rune used by the neo-fascists – and the names of other white supremacists responsible for terrorist attacks such as Luca TrainiAnders Breivik e Brenton Tarrant.

The investigations

These discoveries have been particularly defined “alarming“ by prosecutors, along with the similes and the “anniversaries“ between the material seized in the home of the Italian supremacist and that used by Payton Gendron, 18 year old perpetrator of the Buffalo massacre of May 14, 2022, which killed 10 people. In fact, even on the weapons used by Gendron the names of Tarrant and Breivik were written, as well as other symbols related to the extreme right, and for this, according to the magistrates, the Apulian right-wing extremist would have been ready to “take action“.

Based on the investigations launched in 2021 by the Central Office for General Investigations and Special Operations (Ucigos) together with the General Investigations and Special Operations Division (Digos), the Apulian would have been recruited online by the founder of The base, for translating propaganda material into Italian and proselytizing in Italy. The base is a neo-fascist terrorist groupfounded in 2018 by the former Pentagon and FBI contractor Rinaldo Nazzaro, a 49-year-old American who emigrated to Russia where in 2020 he was the protagonist of a documentary broadcast on state television, as reported by the Bbc. The group propaganda ideologies racist, misogynist, homophobic And anti-Semiticadvocating the need for a race war to defend the white race.