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.
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