Milan, June 10 (LaPresse) – A group active on the web and social media was allegedly created and managed to spread Nazi-fascist propaganda and Holocaust denial, inciting acts of violence and punitive expeditions, and even suggesting the possibility of obtaining money to purchase weapons. The State Police executed an order issued by the juvenile court judge in Milan, imposing precautionary measures—banning the use of internet access devices for two months—against a 17-year-old Italian citizen of Turkish origin, residing in the province of Como, with no prior criminal record and previously unknown, investigated as the promoter of a group aimed at propaganda and incitement to crime for racial hatred, including Holocaust denial.
At the same time, two searches were conducted against two other minors: one, residing in Friuli Venezia Giulia, an active member of the same group, and the other, residing in the Como area, identified as a possible possessor of firearms and ammunition. The investigation, coordinated by the Juvenile Prosecutor's Office of Milan and carried out by the Anti-Terrorism Right Wing Section of the Digos of the Milan Police Headquarters and the Digos of the Como Police Headquarters, in synergy with the Central Directorate of the Police for Prevention – Service for Combating Extremism and Internal Terrorism, arose from web monitoring activities targeting radical far-right and supremacist environments.
The controls identified on a social media platform a group administered by the suspect, explicitly fascist and openly referencing Nazism, where the minor conducted propaganda activities, including strongly xenophobic, homophobic, and anti-Semitic content, as well as recruiting youths and very young people. During the investigation, it emerged that the suspect had created a true 'archipelago' of groups, channels, and pages on various social platforms, visible to all, to make the group’s content viral and expand its recruitment potential. The group’s objective, which also involved adults already subject to judicial measures for similar crimes, was to incite young participants to commit acts of violence and “punitive expeditions,” and more broadly to form a genuine anti-system movement, also suggesting the possibility of raising money to purchase weapons.