They had set up a neo-fascist gang, the Sardinian Legionary Front, which organized attacks and intimidation in the Nuoro area, especially in Baronia. And they used robbery and drug dealing to finance themselves.
There are four arrested (three in prison and one under house arrest), as part of the "Reaction" operation of the Anti-terrorism, by the Carabinieri del Ros, who this morning implemented the precautionary measures in collaboration with the provincial command of Nuoro, the "Sardegna" Hunters Helicopter Squadron, the 11th Helicopter Nucleus of Elmas and the Dog Nucleus. Eleven searches were also carried out against as many additional suspects.
Among the arrests that of Ananio Manca, from Torpè, stands out, already involved in the investigation into the murder of his cousin Cristian Meloni, in 2004, when the victim was only 13 years old, and other criminal episodes. According to the investigators, he was the aggregator of other subjects with far-right ideology who were part of the criminal association. Like cousins Angelo and Niccolò Sulas. The group, according to the investigative reconstruction, has implemented actions of struggle in the area using violence as a form of political confrontation.
The investigation began after the discovery, in Torpè, of an unexploded but high-potential device placed near a polling station during the February 2019 elections.
In May of the same year, other disturbing episodes. Some 7.65 caliber bullets were found near some polling stations and the home of local political personalities attached to a leaflet signed by a self-styled Reactionary Political Movement (MPR) with a strongly anti-European, anti-immigration and right-wing sovereign inspiration text, which invited the population to not vote in the Europeans. The "government and parliament" were also threatened: in the event of non-acceptance of the requests expressed in the leaflet itself, "the armed struggle" was announced through "attacks on institutional offices throughout Italy" and the dissemination of "data and information classified by the State” (in fact, additional heterogeneous documentation retrieved on the dark web was attached to the flyer).
The insights from the Ros allowed the serious event to be included in a broader criminal context that had seen the territory of Baronia as the scene of an escalation of acts of intimidation: only in 2019 were there two attacks a month in the Torpè district, against authorities policies, institutional headquarters, non-EU immigrants or simple citizens who had been imposed a climate of silence to annihilate any form of collaboration with the authorities.
Manca had left the reactionary political movement, and after a period of militancy in the far-right political formation Ultima Legione Italia (from which he was, moreover, expelled because ideologically too extremist), he had given life to a new openly fascist political formation, «rigidly structured, destined to equip itself with a "militia", with the will to carry out violent actions on the territory on the model of the "Corsican independentists" called "Fronte Legionario Sardo" around which it had gathered a large group of followers ", explain the carabinieri.
Weapons were also found in today's searches: a pistol and two illegal rifles, as well as 12-gauge ammunition.
(Unioneonline/E.Fr.)