Police on Wednesday blacked out an anti-Semitic Internet site set up by ultra-right militants, in the first such move against racist extremism in Italy, police said.
Computer equipment and propaganda material were seized in a number of raids throughout Italy and investigations were launched against several ultra-right militants of the Forza Nuova movement involved in managing the site.
Police moved following a request by a public prosecutor in Pisa where the website's service provider was based.
The site's homepage carried the picture of a world dominated by a huge spider, supposed to represent Zionist power, as well as the words: "dark forces rule the world" and a call in English for holy war against the Zionist occupation government.
A 1993 Italian law punishes acts of ethnic, moral and religious discrimination with imprisonment for up to three years -- ROME (AFP)
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