Roberto Fiore
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| Roberto Fiore | |
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| Member of the European Parliament for Central Italy |
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| In office 16 May 2008 – 13 July 2009 |
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| Preceded by | Alessandra Mussolini |
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| Born | 15 May 1959 Rome, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Political party | Forza Nuova |
| Profession | Politician |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Roberto Fiore (born 15 April 1959 in Rome) is an Italian politician and a founding member of the European third position (terzo polo) movement which is against both communism and democracy. He is the leader of the Italian party Forza Nuova. He self-identified as a fascist.[1]
In the United Kingdom
After the police found a large quantity of explosives and weapons in a local office of the political organization Terza Posizione in the 1980s, Roberto Fiore migrated to the United Kingdom in order to avoid arrest.[2][3] The anti-fascist magazine Searchlight claimed that Roberto was working for the Secret Intelligence Service.[4] This has also been alleged by the Sunday Express, in 2000, citing a source within MI5. Fiore denied any connections to British intelligence.[5] The allegation that he worked for MI6 was also made in para 2.12.11 of the Report drawn up on behalf of the European Parliament's Committee of Inquiry into Racism and Xenophobia, 1991 (The Ford Report)[6]
Political activism
Fiore is generally considered to be a neofascist leader.[7][8] In England Fiore became a close friend of Nick Griffin and following Griffin's departure from the National Front he helped to organise the International Third Position, becoming a founding member. Fiore had connections with the traditionalist philosopher Julius Evola and has written about topics such as traditionalism and the third position.
In 1986, thanks to their friendship with Nick Griffin and other far right activists, Roberto Fiore and Massimo Morsello managed to found "Meeting Point", which was later renamed "Easy London". Easy London is a society that helps young students and workers live and work in London by providing jobs, beds and contracts. Fiore's association with London has remained as, in August 2007, he became sole director of CL English Language, a college for overseas students in the west of the city.[9]
Fiore has since returned to Italy and is active in politics as the leader of the nationalist Forza Nuova party (a group he co-founded with Morsello), one of the constituent parts of Alternativa Sociale, allied in the House of Freedoms for the 2006 political elections in Italy.
In 2008 he joined as a speaker on the identitarian Nordic Festival (Nordiska Festivalen) in Sweden where he spoke about European identity and unity. He participated in Budapest on 23 October 2008 to the commemorations of Hungarian Insurrection against communism in 1956, at the invitation of the Hungarian far-right movement HVIM. He also took up the seat in the European Parliament vacated by Alessandra Mussolini. In 2009 he gave a speech at the British National Party's annual Red White & Blue Festival.[10]
In March 2011 he led demonstrations of Forza Nuova against the recent surge of illegal immigrants to the island of Lampedusa, which had left the islanders outnumbered, stating to a crowd of people that: "Local people are now asking us to help secure the beaches, and if the Government continues to fail in its duty to protect the people, and also the territorial integrity of Italy and Europe, we will take up that challenge".[11]
References
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- ↑ Alessandro Trocino. Fiore e il «contagio fascista»: un passato che non passa nonostante il doppio petto. Corriere della Sera, 21 marzo 2008. URL read the 11.2.2008.
- ↑ Francesco Merlo. L'università chiuda le porte agli ultrà della destra. la Repubblica, 5 giugno 2008. url read the 4.14.2008
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- ↑ http://bookshop.europa.eu/en/report-drawn-up-on-behalf-of-the-committee-of-inquiry-into-racism-and-xenophobia-on-the-findings-of-the-committee-of-inquiry-pbAX5990815/downloads/AX-59-90-815-EN-C/AX5990815ENC_002.pdf;pgid=y8dIS7GUWMdSR0EAlMEUUsWb0000opnPGLPd;sid=Yp8rHMbwZ_0rHYgq3061u6TVwFxXTIuTfO0=?FileName=AX5990815ENC_002.pdf&SKU=AX5990815ENC_PDF&CatalogueNumber=AX-59-90-815-EN-C
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