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Thread #122415   Message #2701656
Posted By: Emma B
16-Aug-09 - 01:15 PM
Thread Name: BS: Anti BNP Protests - Luton
Subject: RE: BS: Anti BNP Protest, Codnor, 15 August
Just as a point of contrast -

The BNP supporters at the camp were treated to an address by Roberto Fiore, the leader of the Italian far-right party Forza Nuova and a friend of the BNP leader Nick Griffin
He spoke to the Red, White and Blue Festival about the "threat" to Europe from Islamic extremism.

Mr Fiore, who once said he was happy to be described as a neo-fascist, was sentenced in 1985 to 10 years prison in Italy, in his absence, for being a member of the political wing of the Armed Revolutionary Nuclei, a fascist terror group.

The group's armed wing was implicated in the Bologna bombing of 1980, which killed 85 people. Mr Fiore's jail term was eventually "timed out" under Italy's statute of limitation laws, and he was able to return to his homeland in April 1999.