Italian police uncover plot to create a new Nazi Party

Italian police arrested 19 far-right extremists in raids across the country that uncovered a cache of weapons and a range of Nazi paraphernalia.

The suspects were trying to form the Italian National Socialist Workers Party and were making contacts in southern Europe, according to a police statement that said their operation, dubbed Black Shadows, was the result of two years of investigations.

Members of the nascent party were planning to strike a headquarters of an organization dedicated to second World War partisans in Milan or Rome, daily la Repubblica reported. At least one ring l eader, dubbed Miss Hitler, had attended a nationalist movement convention in Lisbon.

The police said the head trainer of the selfstyled militia was a member of the Calabria-based ‘Ndrangheta mafia.