Overview
- Investigators arrested a 17-year-old from Pescara on Monday after alleging he planned a Columbine-style attack at a school and kept ties with the neo-Nazi Werwolf Division.
- The juvenile inquiry led by L’Aquila prosecutors, dubbed Hate, also targeted seven other minors across Teramo, Pescara, Arezzo, and Bologna as carabinieri searched homes and devices for evidence.
- Officers say they found guides to build 3D-printed weapons, notes on the explosive TATP, and manuals on disrupting essential services, pointing to a terrorist purpose.
- Authorities describe Werwolf Division as a supremacist, accelerationist group that seeks to topple the current order to impose an Aryan-centered authoritarian state through online recruitment on Telegram.
- The new arrest links back to a Bologna cell probed since 2023, where chats discussed scouting Palazzo Chigi and Montecitorio and a plan to shoot the prime minister, a case that produced 12 arrests in December 2024 and remains active.