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One of Europe’s leading Holocaust deniers, with close links to UK historical revisionists, has been arrested as Italian police foiled a Day of the Jackal style plot by nazi terrorists to assassinate Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni and ignite a race war. Giuseppe Fallisi is a 76-year-old tenor who is best known for his pro-Palestinian activism, including benefit performances supporting Hamas, where Fallisi arrived on an “aid flotilla” with an odd mix of left-wing Palestinian sympathisers and open antisemites. His earliest political activities were as an anarchist in the 1970s, but for more than twenty years he has been a committed nazi working with Europe’s leading Hitler worshippers. This hasn’t stopped some blinkered elements of the anti-Zionist left from continuing to work with Fallisi, including producing CDs in support of mainstream charities. Until the recent fall of the Assad regime, Fallisi was part of the strange alliance of nazis and leftists who rallied behind the Syrian dictatorship. On December 4th Italian anti-terrorist police raided homes across the country, following a two-year investigation. Twelve men were arrested. Their ages ranged from Fallisi (76) as the oldest to a 19-year-old. Three younger teenagers including a 14-year-old are also under investigation. Some of those arrested, including two brothers from Bologna, Daniele and Federico Trevisani, have already been transferred to high security prisons. Others (including Fallisi) were kept in prison for a fortnight but are now under house arrest. Fallisi was administrator of one of the Telegram groups used to discuss what police say was a coordinated terrorist plan, including the use of a sniper to assassinate Prime Minister Meloni. The conspirators’ role model was the Armed Revolutionary Nuclei (NAR), a notorious fascist terrorist group whose leaders (including Roberto Fiore) fled to London after the bombing of Bologna railway station in 1980. This was at the time the worst terrorist atrocity in European history, causing 85 deaths and hundreds of injuries. (…) Each January since 2019, Fallisi has organised a gathering of Holocaust deniers in Vichy to mark Faurisson’s birthday and award this prize. Its winners have included several notorious Hitlerite criminals who in some cases have been unable to attend due to being in prison or fugitives from justice. Prize laureates include Ursula Haverbeck (widow of a leading SS officer and convicted many times, who died last month); Germar Rudolf (another German nazi and Holocaust denier who has several criminal convictions and who was arrested again in New York a few weeks ago); Vincent Reynouard (the French nazi who was in hiding in London and Scotland for years until police caught up with him and he was extradited to face justice in Paris); Wolfgang Fröhlich (an Austrian who served several years in prison for Holocaust denial); Monika Schaefer and her brother Alfred Schaefer (Canadian-German nazi conspiracy theorists who were convicted in 2018 of inciting hatred); and most recently Arthur Butz, the 91-year-old professor of electrical engineering who was Faurisson’s leading colleague from the start of the modern Holocaust denial movement in the 1970s. (…) Due to Meloni being the European right’s leading opponent of Russia, there has been speculation of a Moscow hand in the terrorist plot against her. But Searchlight understands that Fallisi has previously been seen as part of the anti-Putin faction of European nazis, aligned with his old friend Rushton and younger opponents of Putin and Dugin such as the Madrid nazi and Heritage and Destiny writer Isabel Peralta. The latest criminal charges come just weeks after a conference in Sweden that similarly brought together sections of European neo-nazism who had previously taken opposite sides on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. And like this conference (plus the continuing trial in Finland of Russian war criminal Yan Petrovsky, who had intimate ties to the Scandinavian nazis who organised the event), the smashing of the latest Italian terrorist plot is certain to lead to panic and recriminations within the ever-paranoid nazi scene.

via searchlight: Italian police smash fascist plot to kill Meloni and spark race war

In den Bundesländern wird gegen Mitglieder und Unterstützer der Reichsbürgergruppe ermittelt. Im Fokus stehen auch jene, die von den Umsturzplänen Kenntnis hatten. Die Ermittlungen zu mutmaßlichen Mitgliedern und Unterstützern der Reichsbürger-Vereinigung um Heinrich XIII. Prinz Reuß haben inzwischen mehr als 60 Verfahren in den Ländern nach sich gezogen. Wie aus einer Antwort des Bundesjustizministeriums auf eine Frage der Bundestagsabgeordneten Martina Renner (Die Linke) hervorgeht, hat der Generalbundesanwalt in dem Ermittlungskomplex bis zum 6. Dezember 64 Ermittlungsverfahren an die Staatsanwaltschaften der Länder abgegeben. 17 dieser Verfahren kamen seit dem 12. Juli neu hinzu.  Nach Informationen der Nachrichtenagentur dpa geht es bei diesen Verfahren teilweise um Menschen, die zwar nicht aktiv an den Vorbereitungen der Gruppe beteiligt waren, aber davon gewusst haben sollen, ohne staatliche Stellen darüber zu informieren (…) Sogenannte Reichsbürger erkennen die Bundesrepublik und ihre Gesetze nicht an. Die Szene ist heterogen, ein Teil wird dem Rechtsextremismus zugeordnet. Der militärische Teil der mutmaßlichen Terrorgruppe sollte laut Anklage die geplante Machtübernahme mit Waffengewalt durchsetzen. Dazu sei mit dem Aufbau eines deutschlandweiten Systems von 286 militärisch organisierten Verbänden, sogenannten Heimatschutzkompanien, begonnen worden.

via zeit: Reichsbürger: 64 Ermittlungsverfahren zur Prinz-Reuß-Gruppe eingeleitet