Veneto Fronte Skinheads

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The Veneto Fronte Skinheads (VFS) is an Italian right-wing extremist association that has been active since 1986. The organization's logo is half a Celtic cross (left) and half a lion's head (right).

history

The Veneto Fronte Skinheads were founded in 1986 by Piero Puschiavo as an association of right-wing extremist skinheads from Veneto and South Tyrol . Particularly active in northern Italy, they were able to obtain organizational status in 1990 and are considered a cultural organization in Italy. In 1993 the association had 500 members and about twice as many sympathizers. This made it the largest skinhead organization in Italy.

Initially limited to private parties, the first public appearance followed at a " Rock Against Communism " festival in Suffolk . Then towards the end of the 1980s they began to organize large-scale concerts together with the international Blood and Honor network . These events, at which Skrewdriver , Brutal Attack and No Remorse also played, drew between 400 and 600 visitors in the mid-1990s. The Veneto Fronte Skinheads included the right-wing rock band Gesta Bellica , Peggior Amico and ADL 122 . From 1993 individual members operated the Tuono Records label , which was active until 2010.

The Italian authorities became aware of the organization in the mid-1990s. Since supporters committed violence again and again, various house searches took place in the spring of 1995 and almost 70 members were arrested. the association's president was found guilty of playing down the Holocaust . After that, the influence of the organization disappeared for a short time, but it regained it with their summer festival in Veneto , in which the Swedish Viking rockers Ultima Thule appeared as the main band in 1999 .

In the late 1990s, the organization worked with the Fiamma Tricolore . Piero Puschiavo even joined the party and recruited other members as well. In 2006, when he was elected to the party executive committee, he withdrew from the VFS. In his place was first Francesco Guglielmino Mancini, then two months later Giordano Caracino, who is still president of the association.

A concert by the band Kaiserjäger on February 11, 2001, which ended in a mass brawl, became known. The background was that Kaiserjäger had invited the skinhead group to this concert. In the run-up, there were probably threats from South Tyrolean skinheads. The Veneto Fronte skinheads attacked the South Tyroleans with baseball bats . That same evening, the band members of Kaiserjäger decided to break up the group.

From the 2000s, there was also cross-border cooperation with the NPD . Among other things, the VFS took part in the Festival of the Nations and in various right-wing extremist demonstrations in Germany, such as the Rudolf-Heß memorial marches in Wunsiedel . One of the contact persons was the neo-Nazi activist Ralf Wohlleben .

Further contacts exist with the Italian organizations CasaPound and Blocco Studentesco .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Christian Menhorn: Skinheads - Portrait of a Subculture . Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden 2001, ISBN 3-7890-7563-9 , p. 118 f .
  2. ↑ a b c d e Björn Resener: Networker for a “white Europe” . In: The Right Edge . No. 138 (September / October), 2012, ISSN  1619-1404 , p. 30-31 .
  3. ↑ Veneto Fronte Skinheads at Discogs
  4. ↑ Thomas Kuban : Blood Must Flow: Undercover Among Nazis . Campus Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-593-39802-0 , pp. 292 f .
  5. ↑ Under a false flag: Veneto Fronte Skinhead. antifameran.blogspot.de, December 5, 2008, accessed on March 13, 2014 .