Another interesting development this weekend was the alleged sighting of Nick Griffin’s mate, Roberto Fiore. Fiore’s return to the BNP scene is further evidence of how the party’s recent changes are only cosmetic and that beneath it is still the same as its National Front days of the 1970s and 80s.
Fiore is an Italian neo-fascist with a 10 year conviction for being a member of the neo-fascist terrorist group the “Armed Revolutionary Nuclei”. According to The Times, the group was implicated in the Bologna bombing of 1980, which killed 85 people.
Fiore went on the run and he was sentenced in absentia. His 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. During Griffin’s National Front days, Fiore encouraged the future BNP leader to model the NF on the Romanian Iron Guard (see video below). The Iron Guard were allies of the Nazis during the 1930’s and 40’s they believed, however, Hitler was “too soft” on the Jews (see Time magazine article from 1941 here).
Tags: BNP, extremism, Nick Griffin, Roberto Fiore, RWB, terrorism, violence
[...] views which have direct lineage to Oswald Mosley, the German Nazi Party, the American KKK, Roberto Fiore and modern East European extremists like Jobbik. This is particularly true of leadership figures [...]
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[...] disrupt the event, which also featured Griffin’s close friend and former business partner, Roberto Fiore, the leader of Italian neo-fascist party Forza Nuova and a convicted [...]
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