Paolo Berizzi has spent 25 years tracking Italy’s neo-fascist underground. He tells Searchlight why the movement has never been more dangerous – and why Giorgia Meloni handed it the legitimacy it always craved. Berizzi is a special correspondent for la Repubblica, and is Italy’s most prominent investigative journalist covering the neo-fascist and neo-Nazi movements. Police […]
CasaPound
Landmark legal verdict against Italian fascists
A court in Bari has delivered a landmark judgment against members of the neo‑fascist organisation CasaPound, convicting 12 activists for attempting to reorganise the banned Fascist Party and for their role in a violent assault on anti‑fascist demonstrators. The ruling is the first time an Italian court has formally recognised CasaPound’s activities as fascist in […]