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Police in northern Italy have detained three men, including one linked to a neo-fascist political party, after uncovering a huge stash of automatic weapons, a missile and material featuring Nazi symbols. Police in northern Italy have detained three men, including one linked to a neo-fascist Italian political party, after uncovering a huge stash of automatic weapons, material featuring Nazi symbols, and a three-metre missile.
Police said the discoveries stemmed from a previous investigation into Italians who took part in the Russian-backed insurgency in eastern Ukraine.Police said the discoveries stemmed from a previous investigation into Italians who took part in the Russian-backed insurgency in eastern Ukraine.
Turin police said one of the men arrested had in 2001 run unsuccessfully as a senate candidate for the neo-fascist Forza Nuova party. In a statement on Monday, Turin police said one of the men arrested, Fabio Del Bergiolo, had run unsuccessfully in 2001 as a Senate candidate for the neo-fascist Forza Nuova party.
They said they found nine assault weapons, nearly 30 hunting rifles, pistols and bayonets, ammunition and antique Nazi plaques featuring swastikas at the man’s home in Gallarate. At his home in Gallarate, police found nine assault weapons, nearly 30 hunting rifles, pistols and bayonets as well as ammunition and antique Nazi plaques featuring swastikas.
The two other men were detained after police found at an airport hangar a French-made missile that they apparently were seeking to sell. Swiss citizen Alessandro Michele Aloise Monti and Fabio Amalio Bernardi, an Italian, were also detained after police found a three-metre long air-to-air French-made Matra missile in the hangar of Rivanazzano Terme airport in the Lombardy region. The men were allegedly seeking to sell the missile, which is said to have originated from the Qatari armed forces.
Carlo Ambra, the chief of the Turin unit of Digos, the police squad that deals with cases involving organised crime and terrorism, said investigators intercepted phone conversations between one of the men and an arms expert who proposed purchasing the missile on behalf of a third party.
“The intermediary was Del Bergiolo,” Ambra said, adding that investigations were ongoing. “The most important thing for now is that we managed to block the sale of these arms.”
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