Italian white supremacist arrested on terror charges

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 27 - Italian police on Thursday arrested an alleged white supremacist from the southern region of Puglia on terrorism charges, prosecutors said.
    The young man allegedly said he was ready to make an "extreme sacrifice to defend the white race"and carry out acts of violence.
    The investigation that led to the 23-year-old's arrest started in 2021 via monitoring of far-right, supremacist groups linked to the "Sieg Heil" Telegram channel, which was allegedly used by the young man to spread anti-Semitic, misogynist and neo-Nazi material.
    He was allegedly a member of the American supremacist organization 'The Base'.
    He alleged acted as a 'lone wolf' in Italy, presenting himself as the group's sole member here.
    He had weapons at his home and allegedly said he was ready to "move on to action".
    He also spread the supremacist group's propaganda, translating it into Italian, and had alleged created his own group of extremists in Italy made up of three or four people.
    The suspect also shared a video on Telegram in which he alleged threatened Life Senator and Holocaust survivor Liliana Segre with death.
    Police allegedly found the names of white supremacist terrorists on the suspect's weapons, such as Luca Traini, Anders Behring Breivik and Brenton Harrison Tarrant.
    Investigators said there were "alarming" similarities between the material they seized and that used by Payton Gendron, the 18-year-old accused of the May 14 Buffalo shooting in which 10 people were killed and three injured. (ANSA).