No-Vax, against the Green Pass, intolerant and, above all, fascists. Openly fascist. Roberto Fiore and Giuliano Castellino, respectively national secretary and Roman leader of Forza Nuova, are two of the 12 people arrested by Digos police for yesterday’s clashes during the march that set fire to the center of the capital.
The story of Fiore and Castellino is intertwined with the birth of Forza Nuova, the far-right movement known for demonstrations and clashes with the police, but absent at the polls where over the years it has met with one defeat after another until to the most natural decision: to stop running.
The story of Fiore, 62 years old last April, starts from afar: he is one of the founders of Terza Position, later a businessman in London and then, once back in Italy, father and leader of Forza Nuova. Fiore has always been a very controversial figure, so much so that press and TV had dedicated a report on how his business would be born, capable of billing 30 million a year.
In full Covid-19 emergency, Forza Nuova also came to the fore for the demonstration announced on Easter Sunday to protest against the ban on celebrating religious services due to restrictive measures. And it is precisely in the far-right movement, founded in 1997, that Fiore links with Giuliano Castellino, 44, most likely destined to be the heir.
Today Castellino is the leader of the protest against the green certificate or, as the militants call it in a derogatory way, the pass. In January he had been the recipient of special surveillance precisely for some violent actions during the demonstrations against the lockdown. Castellino was in Piazza del Popolo also demonstrating on August 14th and 28th.
In September, Castellino was notified of a Daspo for sporting events. On September 1st he entered the Olympic stadium for a Roma match undergoing the swab test to get the Green pass. He received two more Daspo in 2017 and 2018.
“We are 100 thousand. Today we stop the green certificate. The strength of the square against sanitary tyranny, the strength of the people against invented emergencies”, Castellino told AGI shortly before the tensions.