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Vannacci in Turin amid tensions. The Home Office: no measures to dissolve Futuro Nazionale

The general is in Piedmont for the conference organised by the FSP police union. The idea of a ‘to-do list’ for the government’s first 100 days

by Rome Editorial Staff

18 September 2026

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Vannacci a Torino per tavola rotonda su sicurezza, fuori la contestazione al generale

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Protesters threw eggs at the police
Chants against Vannacci
Protests from the audience
A ‘to-do list’ at the Futuro Nazionale think tank

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Party amidst the controversy surrounding the ‘stamp’ designating it as a training seminar – which was subsequently withdrawn by the Ministry of the Interior – the conference ‘Urban Insecurity: the role of institutions and business leaders”, promoted in Turin by the State Police’s FSP trade union, which featured General Roberto Vannacci as guest of honour.

Protesters threw eggs at the police

An anti-fascist protest group was waiting for the leader of Futuro Nazionale near the NH hotel where the event was taking place on the morning of 18 September. The demonstrators approached the line of police officers and threw eggs at them; the officers did not respond. They then set off in a march along Corso Duca degli Abruzzi.

Criticism of Vannacci

Amidst chants and smoke bombs, around 150 people chanted slogans such as “Vannacci out of Turin”, “Vannacci, go home” and “We are all anti-fascists”. ‘There are people like Vannacci because there is still no grassroots movement to represent the alternative,’ the demonstrators said over the microphone. ‘For us, it is our duty to be here to drive Vannacci out and build a popular bridge against the war. We must become a credible force so that the people starving because of this war can see us as an alternative.”

Protests from the audience

The general’s speech begins with a thank you to the police – a source of support over which the centre-right government and Futuro Nazionale are vying – “who are out there, and it makes no sense for there to be 250 officers in riot gear for a conference where we are simply exchanging views. It’s a disgraceful situation.’ ‘They’ve said they can’t allow me to make an appearance here without being disturbed. I’d like to say that they’re not disturbing me at all; I can’t even hear them. I go wherever I feel there is democracy and open debate.” But protests also rise from the audience. “Italia is a secular country,” shouts a woman. “That lady is not only rude but also anti-democratic,” replies Vannacci.

A ‘to-do list’ at the Futuro Nazionale office

On the sidelines of the round-table discussion, whilst at the bar with the former Fdi MP Emanuele Pozzolo, Vannacci announced the idea of a ‘to-do list for the government’s first 100 days’. A concise document, comprising 10–12 points that are ‘credible, feasible and, above all, important’. And who knows whether this might not be the draft platform that the general has said he is willing to offer to Giorgia Meloni’s coalition to discuss a possible alliance ahead of the forthcoming general election.

The Ministry of the Interior: ‘Futuro Nazionale’ will not be disbanded

Meanwhile, the Under-Secretary of State for the Interior, Wanda Ferro, responding to a parliamentary question from the PD in the Chamber of Deputies which asked whether, in light of recent press reports concerning Vannacci and the party he founded, the Government intended to take the necessary steps to dissolve groups found to be guilty of conduct constituting the glorification of fascism, clarified that the Government has no such plans at present. ‘The system of freedoms and safeguards established by the Founding Fathers, precisely to protect the values of freedom and prevent possible authoritarian resurgence, is based on the very clear and qualitative distinction between the expression of ideas—even those with which one may agree little or not at all— and the carrying out of violent threats against the democratic order’, he explains. ‘All governments of the Republic have always adhered to that principle laid down by the Founding Fathers, and we certainly will not be the ones to deviate from it.’