The "Joint Action Day” on hate crimes carried out by the police forces of European countries.
The operational activities were coordinated by Europol and involved the law enforcement agencies of Austria, France, Germany and Italy, with the aim of repressing the online and offline proliferation of hate speech with racist and xenophobic content.
Around 100 targets were targeted, mainly right-wing and left-wing extremists, some linked to religiously inspired extremism, who, through the web, cultivate and spread feelings of intolerance towards people considered "different", inciting the commission of motivated violent crimes from hatred.
Electronic devices, mobile phones, weapons and propaganda material were seized.
In Italy, the State Police - Central Directorate of the Prevention Police and Digos of Monza - carried out, on behalf of the Public Prosecutor's Office of Monza, a personal, local and IT search of a 47-year-old resident in Brianza, investigated by the local Public Prosecutor's Office for Propaganda and incitement to commit crimes for reasons of racial, ethnic and religious discrimination.
The man was identified during a targeted web monitoring activity, through which various social accounts attributable to him were identified, in which multiple posts with anti-Semitic, neo-Nazi and racial discrimination content had been made.
In light of the investigations carried out by the Police, the GIP Office of the Court of Monza, at the request of the local Prosecutor's Office, ordered the preventive seizure of the Telegram channel and the Instagram and Facebook profiles used by the suspect.
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