The Italian police dismantled on Monday, June 7 a small group propagating anti-Semitic and racist ideas on social networks, targeting twelve suspected neo-Nazis, including a woman already elected "
Miss Hitler
" in a Russian competition.
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The group also carried out "
planning activities, still in an embryonic state, of a specific action against a NATO structure by means of explosive devices manufactured thanks to instructions found on the internet and with the collaboration of certain militants. belonging to similar foreign associations active in Portugal
”, according to the police.
The investigation by the Rome public prosecutor's office, which began at the end of 2019, looked into the activities of the “
Ordine Ario Romano
” group, which has members aged 26 to 62, posting on Facebook and a Russian social network (VK) texts, videos and images with racist, anti-Semitic and negationist content, specifies a police statement.
She highlighted "
an incitement to commit violent actions against people of Jewish origin and foreign citizens
," says the text. Searches were carried out across the country. Among those under investigation is a Milanese woman who won in 2019 the beauty contest "
Miss Hitler
" organized by the Russian social network VK, specifies the Italian news agency Agi.