Italian police arrest alleged white supremacist for terrorism

 Italian police arrest alleged white supremacist for terrorism

By Abolaji Adebayo

 

Italian police have on Friday announced the arrest of a 22-year-old Italian linked to white supremacist groups on terrorism charges.

The man is accused of terrorist association and incitement to commit racist and anti-Semitic attacks, also through the spread of propaganda.

AFP reported that he was apprehended in the northwestern port city of Savona, a statement said.

According to AFP, police also searched the homes of 12 suspected associates in other cities, including Turin in the north and Sicily’s capital Palermo.

Italy’s fringe, sometimes violent, far-right groups have roots in the country’s Fascist dictatorship from 1922 to 1943 under Benito Mussolini.

In 2018, a neo-Nazi sympathiser fired on a dozen African migrants in the central town of Macerata, injuring six.

The attack was an apparent response to the killing of a young Italian woman blamed on a Nigerian drug dealer.

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