Altar to Heinrich Himmler found in police raid on far-right centre near Rome
An altar honouring the senior Nazi figure, Heinrich Himmler, was found when premises near Rome used by an Italian far-right movement were cleared by police.
The altar, dedicated to Himmler and Erich Priebke – an SS officer convicted of war crimes in Italy – was found together with other objects relating to Fascist and Nazi ideology during an eviction from a centre in Maccarese, near Rome.
The centre has reportedly been illegally occupied since 2008 by Fons Perennis, a far-right organisation with links to the neo-fascist, pro-Nazi movement CasaPound which was, in its early years, a political party named in honour of the author Ezra Pound.
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