Italy Uncovers Plot to Create New Nazi Party

Italian police handout shows a sticker with the symbol of the 'Italian National Socialist Workers' Party' that they say was seized in searches of properties of an extremist group who planned to create a new Nazi party, in an unidentified location in Italy in a picture released on Nov. 28, 2019. Polizia di Stato/Handout via Reuters

ROME—Italian police said on Thursday they uncovered a plot to form a new National Socialist (Nazi) party and seized a cache of weapons during searches across the country.

Police in 16 towns and cities from the Mediterranean island of Sicily to the Alps in northern Italy took part in the investigation, which was launched two years.