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.
Like the NAR, today’s nazi terrorists hoped the outrage would be blamed on the left and incite a race war leading to the collapse of Italian democracy. And like the NAR (whose activists were safe-housed by leading British fascists including the Brighton printer Anthony Hancock and the League of St George international officer Steve Brady), one of the central figures has close British connections.
Searchlight has been watching Fallisi for many years because of his leading role in the Holocaust denial movement. In 2017 he performed at a concert in Vichy for the 88th birthday of the denial movement’s pioneer Robert Faurisson. His accompanist was the convicted British antisemite Alison Chabloz, but a few months later Fallisi joined the anti-Chabloz faction of British nazis in denouncing his former collaborator.
This didn’t surprise us, due to Fallisi’s longstanding loyalties to the leaders of that faction: the late Richard Edmonds (John Tyndall’s ex-BNP deputy führer), Peter Rushton (another Tyndallite prominent in the UK’s Holocaust denial scene), and Lady Michèle Renouf (the former David Irving groupie who, like Fallisi, is an admirer of Palestinian terrorists and Middle Eastern dictators).
In 2018 Fallisi was among a gruesome gallery of fanatics who gathered in Shepperton, West London, for Faurisson’s final conference, organised by Rushton and the nazi magazine Heritage and Destiny. Iranian and Lebanese journalists were present, though the event was disrupted by anti-fascists. Hotel management turned off lights and set off fire alarms in attempts to force the nazis to leave. A day after this conference Faurisson died, and Fallisi immediately set up an “international prize” in his honour. The prize adjudicators are Fallisi, Renouf, and Faurisson’s translator William Nichols, an American now living in Trieste.
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.
The Mayor of Vichy has had to intervene several times to ban Fallisi’s events, which as a consequence were relegated from prestigious hotels to the upstairs rooms of obscure restaurants and bars.
Guest speakers at Fallisi’s Vichy events have included Jerôme Bourbon, editor of Rivarol, one of France’s oldest far-right journals; Günter Deckert, a former leader of the German neo-nazi party NPD, who died in 2022; Edmonds, who died in 2020; Renouf; Rushton; and Berlin lawyer Wolfram Nahrath, who specialises in representing far-right defendants and who was himself leader of a neo-nazi youth group, Wiking Jugend, until it was banned by the German authorities in 1994. Nahrath was the third member of his family, following his grandfather and father, to lead the WJ, which was modelled on the Hitler Youth.
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.
Photo: Fallisi with (l to r) William Nicholls, Michèle Renouf, and Richard Edmonds