Posted on 11/14/2025 8:45:56 AM PST by karpov
President Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday designated four European left-wing groups as terrorist organizations, following through on his vow to crack down on leftists after the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
The networks targeted by Trump’s Republican administration all appear to be based in Europe, with no operations in the United States. They are an Italian anarchist front that sent explosive packages to the then-president of the European Commission in 2003, two Greek networks believed to have planted bombs outside riot police and labor department buildings in Athens, and an anti-fascist group whose members were prosecuted by German authorities for a hammer attack against neo-Nazis in Dresden.
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The most prominent of the European groups targeted by the Trump administration this week is the International Revolutionary Front, also known as the Informal Anarchist Federation. It first made itself known in 2003–04, when it sent explosive packages to the then-president of the European Commission, Romano Prodi.
In 2012, members of the group shot and wounded the chief executive of Italian nuclear power plant builder Ansaldo Nucleare, by targeting his legs. The attack revived a signature anarchist tactic from the 1970s known as gambizzazione — shooting someone in the leg with the intent to maim and intimidate. Two members of the group were sentenced to 10 years in prison for the attack, with their sentences aggravated by terrorism charges.
That group has also claimed responsibility for letter bombs sent to former Deutsche Bank chief Josef Ackermann at his Frankfurt offices in 2011 and to Italian newspaper offices and foreign embassies.
Armed Proletarian Justice is the name of the group that took responsibility for planting a bomb, which failed to explode, outside the Athens riot police building in December 2023.
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I thought this was going to be about the BBC.
ABC, NBC, CBS, BBC?...................
bttt
Investigating these groups may lead to proving ties to US leftist agitators and terrorists.
The leftist media is deep in denial.
Locally, would the alphabet organizations responsible for planting the J6 bombs qualify as terrorist groups?
Being declared a terrorist organization has severe legal consequences, including the freezing of all assets within a country’s jurisdiction, a prohibition on any financial transactions with the organization, and the potential for criminal prosecution of anyone providing support to it. This designation also stigmatizes and isolates the group, hinders its ability to raise funds, and alerts other governments to concerns, while the organization can seek judicial review of the designation.
Let’s focus on domestic terrorists.
Start arresting known antifa and their supporters. Every single one rioting recently at Berzerkely should have been arrested and charged.
Have they challenged their designation as terrorists?
BBC for sure.
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