The State Police of Milano, Cagliari e Vicenza has executed two precautionary measures of the obligation to remain in residence and house arrest against a twenty-year-old of Romanian origin and an eighteen-year-old Italian member of the Russian accelerationist network – present on Telegram – called AAST. The measures carried out today come at the end of a complex investigative activity developed in the last year – under the direction of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Milano e Cagliari with the coordination of National Anti-Mafia and Counter-Terrorism Directorate – by the local Digos in synergy with the Service for the Countering of Extremism and Internal Terrorism of the Central Directorate of the Prevention Police – Ucigos. (…) In particular, it emerged that the eighteen-year-old cagliaritano, today subjected to the precautionary measure of house arrest, is enrolled in AAST and within the connected to a supremacist terrorist association called The Base, attributable to the international program “White Suprematist Extremism”, which have as their primary objective the committing acts of violence with the aim of terrorism and subversion for reasons of racial hatred. Her violent nature had already revealed himself as a minor; in fact, in 2022, he was subjected to a personal, local and computer search delegated by the Juvenile Prosecutor’s Office at the Court of Cagliari after having threatened a schoolmate with a knife, who had reprimanded him for hearing him praise Hitler. Even after he came of age, he continued to engage in conduct of discrimination and racial hatred, in addition to other crimes, such as child pornography, cyber extortion in the subspecies of “sextortion”, theft of digital identity for extortion purposes. In fact, it has been ascertained that the suspect maintains a dense network of virtual relationships with other Internet users, all orbiting around the supremacist galaxy, trying to gain credibility in these environments through the sharing of accelerationist propaganda content as well as through the commission of certain criminal acts on the territory, which he then sends to the administrators of the groups he frequents. In this context, the aforementioned has made himself available to implement the association program in his own city and in his own nation, informing himself and training through the training courses provided by the aforementioned organizations on the Telegram channels dedicated and has searched the web several times information on weapons such as guns, tonfa, crossbows, tasers, deterrents and knuckle-dusters, comparing himself with other Internet users on how to obtain a gun; furthermore, he was the author of attempted aggravated extortion, sexual violence and child pornography against various individuals, including a 15-year-old, asking for money by threatening to disseminate sexual images and videos of her on WhatsApp and forcing her to perform sexual acts online and, subsequently, to forward them on Telegram in a group chat.
via la milano: roma: Two members, aged 21 and 18, of the neo-Nazi and supremacist group AAST arrested