The Turin State Police today carried out 17 search decrees against the most radical NO Vax / NO Green Pass activists affiliated with the well-known social channel "Basta Dictatura", one of the most important web spaces in the galaxy of COVID deniers 19. The channel had already been the subject of a judicial seizure order as well as of the closure decision by the same company, in consideration of the seriousness of the published contents. The operation was carried out following investigations carried out under the direction of the specialized magistrates of the Turin Public Prosecutor's Office, a terrorism and subversion group. The complex activities that ensued, carried out jointly by the Postal Police and DIGOS of Turin, were carried out for several weeks by monitoring the channel that has become the main pole in organizing violent protests throughout the national territory 24 hours a day.
In recent months "Basta Dictatorship" had gathered tens of thousands of subscribers, proving to be the node of connection with all the main protest web spaces, characterized by a persistent incitement to hatred and to the commission of serious crimes; the viral propagation of the messages has also caused considerable inconvenience in the management of public order and safety in the squares. The suspects had participated in the chat, systematically instigating the use of weapons and carrying out serious illegal acts against the highest institutional offices, including the Prime Minister Mario Draghi; recurring targets were also the police, doctors, scientists, journalists and other public figures accused of "enslavement" and "collaboration" with the "dictatorship" in place. Constantly targeted with heavy insults even all that part of the population who, by vaccinating themselves and observing the rules of personal protection, has accepted to make themselves a "slave" of the state.
Many of the searches were already known to the police, both for having adhered to extremist positions and for previous crimes such as resistance to a public official, theft, robbery, extortion and drugs. Among the suspects, however, there are also uncensored subjects who have fallen into the spiral of online hatred. The contents and tones were exasperated, with explicit references to "hangings", "shootings", "gambling", as well as direct allusions to "new marches on Rome" and terrorism; among those identified also subjects who had promoted motorway and railway blocks as well as activists who became protagonists of street attacks on the police forces employed for public order services.
The operation involved 16 cities including: Ancona, Brescia, Cremona, Imperia, Milan, Pesaro Urbino, Pescara, Palermo, Pordenone, Rome, Salerno, Siena, Treviso, Trieste, Turin, Varese, together with the Postal Police and Territorial Digos, with the coordination of the Postal and Communications Police Service and the Central Directorate of the Prevention Police. The responsibilities of the 17 suspects will be investigated by the competent judicial authority which has identified crimes against them as instigation to commit a crime with the aggravating circumstance of the use of telematic tools and instigation to disobey the laws.