Recruitment for the purpose of terrorism committed for the purpose of discrimination or ethnic, national, racial or religious hatred . And again: propaganda and incitement to crime for reasons of racial, ethnic and religious discrimination, attempted extortion and attempted aggravated robbery, attempted aggravated sexual assault against a minor , creation, production and possession of child pornography.

This is the long list of charges that the 18-year-old from Cagliari arrested by the Digos as part of the anti-terrorism operation and against online neo-Nazi propaganda must answer to. Also involved in the investigation is a 20-year-old Romanian, who was part of the same system.

The young man from Cagliari, who had become close to the neo-Nazi, supremacist and pro-Russian groups Aast and The Base, was defined by investigators as a "lone wolf".

He spent his days going to school or the gym and then spent the rest of the day on the Internet. He also constantly watched videos of animal torture, mutilation or executions , even by ISIS.

"He fed on terror," stressed the head of the Cagliari Digos, Antonio Nicolli , in a press conference. But not only that. "He was in fact constantly looking for weapons . "He was looking for information and contacted other people in chat to ask how to use 3D printers to produce firearms - reconstructed the head of the Anti-terrorism section Fabio Formato - he had a real obsession."

The manager Nicolli also explained that the 18-year-old planned demonstrative actions to "climb the ladder" of the hierarchy of the organizations he had joined. In particular, he targeted foreigners, whom he intended to hit while they were in line at Caritas or who he had attacked near a shopping center.

The father, mother and brothers, however, had noticed nothing or almost nothing.

And when the police knocked on their door to search the young man, they were "absolutely shocked" because they had no idea what their son was doing.

(Online Union)

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