WHITFIELD: All right, police in Italy say they have uncovered a plot to create a new Nazi Party. Special Forces carried out operations across the country after suspects were tipped off to their investigation. Barbie Latza Nadeau explains.</s>BARBIE LATZA NADEAU, CNN CONTRIBUTOR (voice over): This is some of the paraphernalia found by police during a two-year investigation into a pro-Nazi group in Italy. Police seized a stash of items including pistols and rifles as well as swastikas, Nazi flag, books and pictures of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. Police also found this -- a sticker showing the group symbol. They call themselves the Italian National Socialist Workers Party. Nineteen people are being investigated following a series of raids across the country.</s>NADEAU (voice over): Police say the group use social media and chat groups to recruit new members. The investigation comes on the heels of rising far-right hate across Europe. Earlier this month in Italy, 89-year-old activist and Holocaust survivor, Liliana Segre was given full police protection after receiving around 200 pieces of anti-Semitic hate mail a day. Just last week, street signs dedicated to Italian-Jewish scientists and doctors who died in the Holocaust were defaced in Rome. Forming a fascist or Nazi Party has been a crime in Italy since 1952, but possessing historical Nazi propaganda is not. Police say the investigation continues. Barbie Latza Nadeau for CNN, Rome.</s>WHITFIELD: Thank you so much, Barbie. We have so much more straight ahead in the NEWSROOM right after this.
Police Uncover Plot To Form New Nazi Party, Seizing Rifles And Swords