Carabinieri police on Tuesday staged
a series of operations to search the homes of 11 people who are
under investigation for online attacks on President Sergio
Mattarella.
Properties were searched in the cities of Rome, Latina, Padua,
Bologna, Trento, Perugia, Turin and Verbania.
Investigators said they uncovered a strategy of online
aggression targetting the head of State with social media posts
and content published between April 2020 and February 2021.
Office workers and professionals are among the people under
investigation.
Some of the suspects have links to far-right groups.
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