Gaetano Saya is a far right

Far right

Far-right, extreme right, hard right, radical right, and ultra-right are terms used to discuss the qualitative or quantitative position a group or person occupies within right-wing politics. Far-right politics may involve anti-immigration and anti-integration stances towards groups that are...

 Italian politician

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, leader of the National Right

National Right

National Right is a minor neo-fascist political party in Italy. It was founded on 12 July 2000 and is led by Gaetano Saya....

 neo-fascist party.

Saya has claimed he was a former member of Gladio

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, NATO's stay-behind

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 anti-Communist network during the Cold War

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, involved in Italy's strategy of tension

Strategy of tension

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 during the "Years of Lead."

Gaetano Saya was charged in November 2004 of white supremacist

White supremacy

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 hate speech

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 diffused through his party website.

He was arrested in 2005 by the prosecutor of Genova

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 on charges of having constituted a "parallel police", named DSSA

Department of Anti-terrorism Strategic Studies

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 (Department of Anti-terrorism Strategic Studies). According to judicial sources, Il Messaggero

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, quoted by The Independent

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, declared that wiretaps suggested DSSA members had been planning to kidnap Cesare Battisti, former member of the Armed Proletarians for Communism

Armed Proletarians for Communism

Armed Proletarians for Communism was an Italian far-left armed group founded in 1976 and disbanded three years later, during the "Years of Lead ."- History :...

(PAC).