Photo Gallery A Hard Right Turn for Italy
Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini is head of the right-wing populist Lega party. His racist incitement has led to an atmosphere in the country in which neo-fascists feel emboldened.
Some neo-fascists in Italy head to the town of Predappio three times a year to honor former dictator Benito Mussolini, who was born there. This particular march took place in late April on the anniversary of his death.
Salvini has shut down Italian ports to boats carrying migrants saved from drowning in the Mediterranean. But he has also targeted Sinti and Roma. This image is taken at the Roma camp just outside of Rome on Via Salone.
Locals are up in arms about the Sinti/Roma camp on Via Salona because of the garbage burned there -- trash from Italians looking to dispose of it cheaply and illegally. Salvini has promised to clear the camp.
"Padre" Giulio Tam is an excommunicated Catholic priest who performs church services in memory of Mussolini for Italian fascists who make pilgrimages to Il Duce's place of birth.
The headquarters of Azione Frontale. The fascist group is led by Ernesto Maroni, who made a name for himself in Jewish communities around the world in 2014 as the man who sent pig heads to synagogues in Rome and to the Israeli Embassy.
A ceremony honoring Mussolini, including Edda Negri Mussolini, the dictator's niece.
