Italy – David Duke, former Ku Klux Klan leader, is fighting Italy’s block to ban his return to the country after being accused of attempting to create an extremist neo-Nazi group in northern Italy.
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As reported by The Telegraph (http://bit.ly/IM3Pnx) the activist was expelled by Italian police in March 2012. They claimed he was, “dangerous and wanted to create racist and anti-Semitic groups in Europe.”
Duke, a candidate in the US presidential race in 1988 and 1992 and a denier of the Holocaust, arrived in the village of Venas di Cadore in February 2011.
The Italian Embassy in Malta had granted Duke a study visa and he lived in the small town of a few hundred residents. Many of the residents did not know who he was.
Local police in Belluno said Duke used his second name, Ernest, to thwart police and when he tried to renew his visa they found he was not conducting research or studies.