A young Italian, a member of the American supremacist organization “The Base”, was arrested on Thursday for planning to acquire weapons and carrying out “violent actions”, police said.
This man living in Bari, in the southeast of the country, is suspected of “recruitment for the purposes of terrorism, propaganda and incitement to violence” for “racial, ethnic and religious” reasons.
“The suspect, acting as a ‘lone wolf,’ was ready for the ultimate sacrifice ‘in the name of defending the white race,'” police said in a statement, without specifying his age.
A reference to Breivik
On a weapons package found in his home, he had drawn runic symbols and written “Breivik eroe” (Breivik’s hero), referring to the Norwegian far-right assassin Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in 2011.
The same markings were found on the AR-15 semi-automatic rifle used by Payton Gendron, an 18-year-old American supremacist, to kill ten people, almost all of them black, in a supermarket in Buffalo, near Canada, last May. .
The investigators established that the Italian had become radicalized in the “Sieg Heil” social network where he spread “anti-Semitic, misogynistic and neo-Nazi” content, and sought to “obtain weapons and the ability to build them through the ‘acquisition of a 3D printer’.
Source: BFM TV
