The group is accused by the Italian authorities of stockpiling weapons and planning to conduct terror attacks against civilian and police targets in the country.

:amerikkka-clap: :mission-accomplished-1::mission-accomplished-2:

    • D61 [any]
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      2 years ago

      I will never get this out of my head now and I thank you for it.

  • UnicodeHamSic [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I am reqlly impressed how quickly this new gladio is getting blowback started.

  • sovietknuckles [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    The group is accused by the Italian authorities of stockpiling weapons and planning to conduct terror attacks against civilian and police targets in the country.

    That would explain why only 20% of the weapons Ukraine purchases makes it to the battlefield

  • Alaskaball [comrade/them]M
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    2 years ago

    How dare those communist italians target the brave friends of the heroic azov battalion

  • Kanna [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    Azov nazis??? But I thought they were heroes :shocked-pikachu:

  • BeamBrain [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    The sad thing is that liberals will still call anyone who doesn't trust Azov a Putin loving tankie

  • culpritus [any]
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    2 years ago

    In a January 2021 wiretap, Testa said he “would make a massacre like the one in New Zealand, but I wouldn’t go to the blacks, I would go to the barracks in Marigliano.” He was referring to the New Zealand mosque shooter who claimed to have visited Ukraine and wore a Nazi Sonnenrad, or “black sun” patch on his flak jacket as he slew 51 worshippers. The symbol, as the New York Times noted in 2019, is “commonly used by the Azov Battalion, a Ukrainian neo-Nazi paramilitary organization.”

    In February 2021, Testa ranted over the phone, stating “Like [racist Christchurch mass shooter] Tarrant… tututututu. In the Marigliano barracks. Boom boom, I killed them all.”

    Around the same time, police monitoring the Order of Hagal organization seized ”soft air weapons” that could be “easily modified to fire authentic bullets,” ammunition, tactical gear, and even a grenade launcher. The group is also accused of conducting paramilitary trainings in Naples and Caserta as well as seminars promoting white supremacy and Holocaust denial.

    Footage of the arrests broadcast by the news channel Sky Tg24 shows long knives, a Nordic-style axe, a bat emblazoned with the words “Leader Mussolini,” a swastika flag, a gas mask, an Azov Battalion t-shirt and “Valhalla Express,” a memoir by an Azov fighter.

    But Ukraine is not the only country to have been visited by members of the Order of Hagal; “some members” also traveled to Israel to train in Krav Maga and the use of long and short weapons,” according to police officials. In fact, they were even given diplomas for completing the training.

    https://scheerpost.com/2022/11/17/blowback-italian-police-bust-azov-tied-nazi-cell-planning-terror-attacks/

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    Fascists planning to takeover the police next in Italy then. They have political power but they need violent power and don't currently control either the police or the military. Terror attacks on police would have a significant effect, it would drive internal conflict over what to do, drive people that aren't supporters into either silence or conflict with those that are, out them for targeting, and it would become a situation in which only fascist sympathisers continue to join it.

    With political power on their side the org could be quite easily taken over with a few such attacks. Scare the ones out of the bottom and assassinate various parts of the leadership until you get fascists in charge at every level.