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| BlowbackItalian police bust Azov-tied Nazi cell planning terror attacks
Rubinstein, Alexanderhttp://thegrayzone.com/2022/11/15/blowback-italian-azov-tied-nazi-terror/ 
 Publisher:  The Grayzone
 Date Written:  15/11/2022
 Year Published:  2022
 Resource Type:  Article
 
 The arrest of Italian neo-Nazis affiliated with the Ukrainian Azov Battalion highlights the terrifying potential for blowback from the Ukraine proxy war.
 
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 Five members of an Italian neo-Nazi organization known as the Order of Hagal were arrested on November 15th while an additional member remains wanted by authorities. He happened to be in Ukraine, fighting Russian forces alongside the Azov Battalion, which has been formally integrated into the Ukrainian military.
 
 The Hagal members are accused of plotting terrorist attacks on civilian and police targets. A sixth member of the Hagal group, now considered a fugitive, is in Ukraine and embedded with the Azov Battalion, a neo-Nazi paramilitary group that has been incorporated into the Ukrainian National Guard.
 
 Members of the Order of Hagal reportedly maintained direct and frequent contacts over Telegram with not just the Azov Battalion, but also the neo-Nazi Ukrainian military formations Right Sector and Centuria, probably in the view of possible recruitment into the ranks of these fighting groups, according to Italian media.
 
 
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