‘Pitchfork Movement like Golden Dawn’ says regional official

(see related) (ANSA) – Turin, December 13 – A regional councilor and former governor of Piedmont on Friday said the anti-government Pitchfork Movement “resembles Golden Dawn,” the far-right nationalist party in Greece. “It worries me a lot,” said Mercedes Bresso, whose northwestern region has seen some of the densest protests, especially in Turin. “There’s a neo-Nazi thread, which is extremely chilling”. Friday marked the fifth day of protests launched by the Pitchfork Movement, which began as a group of truckers and farmers disgruntled by austerity-driven tax hikes and has grown to include anti-government demonstrators of various stripes, including the extreme right, many of whom have been charged with looting and vandalism.

A Pitchfork spokesman seemed to confirm suspicions of a nationalist agenda in the Movement on Friday when he said Italy was a “slave to Jewish bankers” and said he admired right-wing Hungarian Premier Viktor Orb