If Donald Trump's ex-chief strategist Steve Bannon were to succeed, the future elite of European right-wing populists would soon be trained at Trisulti Monastery near Rome. A confidant of Bannon, the Briton Benjamin Harnwell, wanted to build an academy for "Defenders of the Judeo-Christian Occident" there as director of the ultra-conservative Catholic Institute Dignitatis Humanae.
The academy was to be founded this fall in Rome and move to Trisulti in 2020. But the project will probably be nothing: The Italian Ministry of Culture has revoked the license, which granted the Institute the rights of use of the Charterhouse Trisulti.
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The institute had leased the former convent of the Carthusian Order in 2018 for a period of 19 years and for 100,000 euros per year from the Italian state. The monks no longer had enough money to maintain the monastery, founded in the 13th century, about one hundred kilometers east of Rome.
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However, according to a procedure initiated by the Italian predecessor government in May 2019, the ministry concluded that "contrary to what was said at the time of the request, the association did not have the necessary conditions for leasing property of the state to private individuals" ,
The Bannon confidant Harnwell had expected a thousand potential students - especially from the Anglo-Saxon area. He wanted to train them as "cultural warriors" against secularism and illegal immigration. Bannon, who wants to build right-wing extremist movements in Europe since being expelled from the White House, promised the project a million dollars. More donors stayed away.
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