The Italian Police dismantled this Wednesday the supremacist and neo-Nazi group nicknamed ‘Werwolf Division’ in a large operation throughout the country, in which twelve of its members were arrested, accused of terrorism and members of a cell capable of committing attacks.
The Court of Bologna (north) has issued precautionary prison measures for the crimes of association for terrorist purposes, propaganda and incitement to commit acts of racial, ethnic and religious discrimination and illicit possession of firearms, the State Police reported.
During the maxi-operation, the agents also carried out thirteen home searches, indicated in a statement. The detainees were part of “a true ‘organized cell’, already operational and capable of carrying out attacks with the techniques used by the so-called ‘lone wolves’,” as the investigators defined it.
25 suspects
In total, the investigation has involved 25 suspects, some of whom were already wanted by the police of Bologna and Naples in May 2023, aged between 76 and 19, are accused of having promoted, organized and participated in various forms in the association
The group “had as its objective the overthrow of the current order for the establishment of an ethical and authoritarian state centered on the ‘Aryan race’, also with the project of violent actions against senior officials of the institutions,” according to the researchers.
The operation, which is coordinated by the National Anti-Mafia and Anti-Terrorist Directorate and the Central Directorate of the Prevention Police, is not the first to be carried out in Italy against the ‘Werwolf Division’, which takes its name from the group of ‘men wolf’ led by the head of the German SS, Heinrich Himmler, at the end of World War II
In May 2023, an investigation by the Naples Prosecutor’s Office (south) ended with eight people being investigated after a Telegram network managed from Bologna appeared that was supposedly used to organize “violent subversive acts”, glorifying the Nazi Holocaust against the Jews, according to local media.
