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by mirimir 2533 days ago
And even Google translate:

> The investigations had begun about a year ago when the police headquarters in Turin, coordinated by the Central Directorate of Prevention Police, had monitored some people linked to political movements of the ultra right and who had fought in the Ukrainian region of Donbass against the separatists.

Wouldn't one expect at least that as part of fact checking?

Edit: Damn, so perhaps the poliziadistato.it article got it wrong. At least, according to Wikipedia.[0]

> Forza Nuova leader Roberto Fiore was once closely allied with the Ukrainian far-right Svoboda party, but following the beginning of the War in Donbass, Forza Nuova and Fiore "made a considerable shift to the pro-Russian camp." According to the Political Capital Institute, a Hungarian think tank, Forza Nuova is one of a number of Russian-backed radical right political parties in Europe.

But the supporting cites are from 2014-2015, so who knows?

0) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Force_(Italy)

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Seriously, you prefer wikipedia over official police report?
Judging from the other comments, Wikipedia may be correct in this case. Although, as I noted, the cites are a few years old. So FN could have switched sides again.

Also, given that I don't know Italian, I don't really know what the police report said.