Air-to-air missile seized from far-right group in Italy, say officials
Three men detained during raids - including one linked to neo-fascist political party
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Your support makes all the difference.Italian police have seized an air-to-air missile and a huge stash of automatic weapons during raids on far-right groups, officials have said.
Three men were detained, including one linked to a neo-fascist Italian political party.
Police said the discoveries stemmed from a previous investigation into Italians who took part in the Russian-backed insurgency in eastern Ukraine.
In a statement, Turin police said one of the arrested men had run unsuccessfully as a Senate candidate for the neo-fascist Forza Nuova party in 2001.
At his home in Gallarate, police found nine assault weapons, nearly 30 hunting rifles, pistols and bayonets as well as ammunition and antique Nazi plaques featuring swastikas.
Two other men were detained after police found a French-made missile at an airport hangar that they apparently were seeking to sell.
The missile reportedly came from Qatar.
The arrested men were named in Italian media as Fabio Del Bergiolo, 50, a Forza Nuova party activist; Alessandro Monti, a 42-year-old Swiss national, and Fabio Bernardi, a 51-year-old Italian.
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