A 19-year-old arrested in the Pavia area: he had firearms and Nazi symbols

The investigations

The investigations, coordinated by the Milan Prosecutor's Office and conducted by the anti-terrorism section of the Milanese Digos, together with colleagues from Pavia and in synergy with the service for combating terrorism and internal extremism of the DCPP, are connected to those which led to the arrest last 22 April of another 19-year-old from Pavia, who ended up under house arrest for having administered the 'Terza Position' chat, in which neo-fascist propaganda was spread, neo-Nazi and anti-Semitic. "In my opinion, we just need to wait and one day we will use the head of every single Jew as a football", one of the messages that circulated in the chat at the center of the Milan Digos investigation, which last April had also led to 14 searches (nine of minors) throughout Italy.

By analyzing the device seized from the young extremist who administered the group, the investigators arrived at the peer arrested today. Through his social profile, the 19-year-old apparently expressed "particularly radical skinhead positions" - underlines the Milan Police Headquarters in a note - and disseminated various multimedia contents. The most alarming thing, however, were the violent and discriminatory demonstrations, in which he made it known that he had firearms available.

And it was exactly like that: in his house this morning the police found and seized a 6.35 caliber Fn Herstal model 1906 pistol, a second Fn Herstal mod. 1910 caliber 6964, a Marocchi model Sm66 automatic rifle 9 caliber Flobert, two sabres, several knives and daggers, a brass knuckles, an axe, a hammer, a truncheon and a toy pistol without a red cap. Furthermore, in his bedroom, the Digos policemen of the Milan Police Headquarters found all the neo-Nazi propaganda material, including swastikas and reproductions of Hitler and Mussolini. The 19-year-old was taken to Voghera prison, awaiting validation from the investigating judge.