Searches against four exponents of "Forza Nuova" of Bari, Brindisi and Foggia were carried out by Digos, on the instructions of the Dda of Bari. The suspects are involved in the demonstration in Rome on 9 October last, when the headquarters of the CGIL were attacked , and one of them had already been "actively involved - explain the investigators - in the street demonstrations organized in the Bari area in recent months, against national and EU policies to combat the Covid pandemic by apparently non-politicized protest groups ".
From the investigative investigations, delegated by the Bari prosecutor Roberto Rossi, the adjunct coordinator of the Dda Francesco Giannella and the substitute Ignazio Francesco Abbadessa, "a dense network of contacts emerged between the national leaders of the movement and the recipients of today's investigation activity "explain the investigators.
The monitoring of the web network and, in particular, of the social profiles attributable to two of the Forza Nuova militants who were searched today, made it possible to ascertain their participation in the demonstration on 9 October. The two had posted direct Facebook and images "which confirmed their presence in the pivotal points of the event". On the post / image of the social profile of a third suspect, part of the press release issued by Forza Nuova was published, signed by the national exponents Giuseppe Provenzale, Luca Castellini, Davide Pirillo and Stefano Saija, "with which he explicitly praised to 'raise the level of confrontation 'and that the' people will not stop '".
Further investigative activity "then made it possible to place in Rome, on the day of the demonstration in question - continue the investigators - also the fourth of the suspects and to prove, in conclusion, a dense network of contacts between them and with the national representatives of the movement ".
