On the 26th August 2023, a new far-right terrorist attack occurred in the United States. The attacker, Ryan Palmeter drove to a supermarket in a predominantly African-American neighbourhood and then opened fire with a PSA-15 semi-automatic rifle and a Glock G20. He then committed suicide when the police arrived. Evidence of the modus operandi adopted emerged from the information gathered in open source. We identified two types of information sources:
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After the March of Justice, announced on June 23, the evolution of the relationship between Russian President Vladimir Putin and PMC Wagner head Yevgeny Prigozhin was discussed at length. On August 23, exactly two months later, one of the private jets on which Yevgeny Prigozhin and Dmitry Utkin, considered his right hand, were traveling crashed en route between Moscow and St. Petersburg.
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An episode of hooligan violence, with a 22-year-old man dying from multiple stab wounds took place in Athens, Greece, the night before Tuesday’s UEFA Champions League qualifying soccer match between teams AEK (Greece) and visiting Dinamo Zagreb (Croatia).[1] Additionally to one man violently losing his life, there are 8 people injured (Croatian and Greek) and the clashes were especially violent.
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Le rivolte occorse in Francia alla fine di giugno mostrano e confermano che a livello globale, certamente europeo, le società stanno diventando sempre più radicali e violente.
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CounteR Project Newsletter’s Issue #6 is now released and its full text is available here.
The spring edition marks CounteR’s successful entering into the third year of project implementation and provides insights from the fourth consortium meeting, held in Toulouse – France. In Issue #6, we continue presenting the scientific publications, authored by consortium members. Notably, ICON’s CEO Ian Castillo gives a special interview, in which he talks about CounteR’s scientific and technological advantages that contribute to making Europe a safer place.
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The previous issues of the CounteR newsletter can be found here: Issue #5, Issue #4, Issue #3, Issue #2, and Issue #1.
Thе CounteR Project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101021607.
Il 19 aprile 2023 un’operazione della Polizia di Stato, coordinata dalla Procura di Milano, ha portato all’arresto di nove appartenenti alla pandilla sudamericana “Latin Kings”, fazione “Chicago”, tutti tra i 20 e i 36 anni e accusati di associazione a delinquere, tentato omicidio, lesioni personali, rissa, danneggiamento, furto aggravato e lancio pericoloso di oggetti. Continue reading
CounteR Project Newsletter’s Issue #5 is now released and its full text is available here.
The editorial team looks forward to readers’ feedback through CounteR’s LinkedIn Cluster Group. Join the group now, share your thoughts, and stay tuned to upcoming webinars and thematic discussions on online radicalisation prevention! Continue reading
Greek law enforcement authorities have announced that they have dismantled a terror network planning to conduct attacks in Greece[1]. According to media reporting on the subject, 2 men of Pakistani origin have been arrested as part of a terror network whose head is also Pakistani organizing the criminal activities from Iran. Continue reading
Guerra cibernetica e guerra russo-ucraina: la disinformazione.
Conferenza on line il 16 marzo 2023 ore 10:00 con la partecipazione del Generale Alexander Potity del SSSCIP-State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine e Head of the Department of Security of Information Systems and Technologies. Place: MS Teams platform: https://tiny.pl/wkbg5 Continue reading
Intelligence e individuazione dei target militari – Analizzando l’operato di un gruppo di guerriglia urbana a Yangon è emerso come una delle strategie per la raccolta di informazioni, con l’obiettivo di identificare i target delle operazioni, si basi sul network di conoscenze intracomunitarie dei membri della resistenza nei diversi quartieri. Solitamente, i gruppi di una specifica zona della città sono in grado di individuare sia le persone che lavorano per la giunta sia le persone collegate al partito politico nazionale affiliato ai militari, l’Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP). Continue reading
Contesto. In seguito al colpo di stato militare del febbraio 2021, il regime attuò una sistematica campagna di repressione delle manifestazioni pacifiche insorte in tutto il Myanmar. La brutalità dell’esercito spinse centinaia di migliaia di giovani a trasferirsi nei territori di frontiera, controllati dalle organizzazioni politico-armate delle minoranze etniche, per intraprendere degli addestramenti militari di base. Continue reading
La recente visita del Presidente del Consiglio Giorgia Meloni in India segnala non solo il tentativo di scongelare i rapporti diplomatici con Nuova Delhi, ma anche il riconoscimento implicito del ruolo che l’Asia riveste in termini di importanza geopolitica e di scenari futuri.[1] Da lungo tempo ormai, l’Indo-Pacifico e il Mediterraneo allargato stanno sviluppando un collegamento strategico in grado di offrire sia opportunità economiche che di sicurezza, snodandosi a partire dagli attori sul Mare Nostrum (Italia, Egitto, Israele) e coinvolgendo alcuni degli scacchieri geopolitici di maggior rilievo.[2] Continue reading