The Trump administration will designate four European Antifa-affiliated groups as foreign terrorist organizations in an effort to cripple violent networks around the world, a State Department official told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Antifa Ost in Germany, International Revolutionary Front in Italy, and the Greek groups Armed Proletarian Justice and Revolutionary Class Self Defense will be added to the State Department’s list alongside Al Qaeda and ISIS, the official said, calling it “the first batch of designations.” Foreign terrorist designations make it a crime to provide “material support” such as funding to the group, require immigration officials to keep its members out of the country and allow victims of the group’s attacks to sue for damages in U.S. court.
The four European groups “use force against those they identify as opponents of their Marxist and anarchist projects” in line with the leftist Antifa movement, the State Department official told the DCNF.
European authorities linked Antifa Ost to a string of attacks in Budapest, Hungary, in February 2023, that saw nine people assaulted with a hammer, batons, pepper spray and other items.
The International Revolutionary Front, also called the Informal Anarchist Federation, waged “an intense campaign of violence” in Italy through the years that included bombing attempts and the fatal shooting of a nuclear executive in 2012 {snip}
Armed Proletarian Justice, meanwhile, claimed responsibility for a failed bombing against a police building in Athens, Greece, in 2023, the State Department said in its annual report on terrorism. Revolutionary Class Self Defense also took credit for multiple bombings in Greece {snip}
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