Neo-nazi with a patch in German that reads "Skinheads - White and proud." More than 200 people have been killed by far-right extremists in Germany since 1990. Photo: Marek Peters via Wikimedia Commons.

JTA – ROME – Italian police launched a widespread operation against the neo-Nazi Internet hate organization Stormfront.

On Thursday, police searched the homes of 35 people aged 17-51 in more than 20 towns and cities up and down the Italian peninsula on suspicion of spreading ideas on the Internet “based on racial and ethnic hatred and incitement to commit acts of discrimination and violence for racist and ethnic reasons.

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