Overview
- Carabinieri’s ROS unit arrested a 17-year-old on Monday on terrorism charges after finding manuals for guns, explosives like TATP, and 3D-printed weapons tied to a Columbine-style plan.
- Investigators say the teen followed a Telegram group called Werwolf Division that glorified mass killers and pushed racist, supremacist ideology, and they transferred him to a juvenile facility.
- Seven searches of other minors in Teramo, Perugia, Pescara, Bologna and Arezzo followed Monday’s operation, with each under investigation for propaganda and instigation tied to hate motives.
- In a separate case, a 13-year-old who live-streamed the stabbing of teacher Chiara Mocchi had his Telegram channel and account removed, the juvenile prosecutor opened criminal and civil files, and the boy is in child neuropsychiatry as police trace his alleged Telegram purchases and viewers; the teacher is out of intensive care and receiving psychological support.
- Rome police used the new ‘fermo preventivo’ on Sunday to hold 91 people at an anarchist commemoration for up to 12 hours, drawing praise from Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and adding to a wider debate in Italy over youth violence online, platform controls, and expanding public-order powers.