Gaetano Saya
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Gaetano Saya (Messina, Italy, 1956) is a far right Italian politician, leader of the MSI-Destra Nazionale neo-fascist party, founded according to Giorgio Almirante's will in 2000. He is also leader of the National Union of the Police Forces (Unpf), a trade union present in all of Italy's security services. Saya has claimed he was a former member of Gladio, NATO's stay-behind anti-Communist network during the Cold War, involved in Italy's strategy of tension during the "Years of Lead."
Gaetano Saya was charged in November 2004 of white supremacist hate speech diffused through his party's website. He has since moved the website to a United States-based Internet provider.
He was arrested in 2005 by the prosecutor of Genova on charges of having constituted a "parallel police," named DSSA (Department of Anti-terrorism Strategic Studies) [1]. According to judicial sources, Il Messaggero, quoted by The Independent, declared that wiretaps suggested DSSA members had been planning to kidnap Cesare Battisti, former member of the Armed Proletarians for Communism (PAC).[2]
During the development of the SISMI-Telecom scandal, he denounced the prosecutor of Genova, others justice officials, as well as PMs Francesca Nanni and Nicola Piacente, along with high-level responsible of DIGOS Giuseppe Gonan, and all of the hierarchical chain involved in this investigation, including former Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu, of "favorizing Islamic terrorism."
Following discussions with the House of Freedoms coalition headed by Silvio Berlusconi concerning the 2006 general elections, the latter finally decided, in February 2006, not to include Gaetano Saya's party, as well as others neofascists such as Alessandra Mussolini, in the right-wing electoral alliance.
[edit] References
- ^ "Police arrests two 'terror vigilantes'", The Times, July 2, 2005.
- ^ "Up to 200 Italian police 'ran parallel anti-terror force'", The Independent, July 5, 2005. (URL accessed on January 22, 2007)
