Editing CasaPound

{{Evil Organization|fullname=CasaPound Italia|alias=CasaPound

CPI|origin=Rome, Italy|foundation=June 2008|headquarters=Napoleon III Street, 8 0015 Rome|commanders=Gianluca Iannone

Andrea Antonini

Marco Clemente|agents=Luca Marsella

Adriano Scianca

Vittorio Sgarbi

Francesco Borgonovo

Alessandro Meluzzi

Diego Fusaro

Mario Vattani

Antonio Rapisarda

Paolo Bargiggia

Francesco Paolo Capone

Gabriele Adinolfi

Maurizio Murelli|crimes=Raid

[[Murder]]

Assault

[[Propaganda]]

[[Hate speech]]

Hate crimes

[[Censorship]]

Spread of fake news

Apology of [[Fascism]]

Violence against the police

Illegal occupation of real estate|type of villain=Neo-fascist italian political party|name=Evil Political Party|goals=Keep the fascist values alive (ongoing)

Silence with violence anyone who opposes the party (ongoing)|Image=Casa Pound.png}}{{Quote|True, we are fascists. But of the third millennium.|Gianluca Iannone, leader of CasaPound}}

'''CasaPound Italia''' ('''CPI'''), or simply '''CasaPound''', is a far-right political movement with a neo-fascist and populist matrix.

== History ==

=== Origins and first years of the movement ===
[[File:CasaPound scritta.JPG|left|thumb|Headquarters of CasaPound.]]
The first illegal occupation made using the name CasaPound, was that of the 26th December 2003 in Rome, made by a group of young people and coming from previous experience of CasaMontag on the outskirts of Rome. The building, a former government building at no. 8 in via Napoleone III, it later became the national headquarters of the CasaPound Italia movement and association.

In the two years following its first action, CasaPound multiplied the abusive occupations in Rome: the authorities responded in many cases with evictions.

In 2006, CasaPound is marked by demonstrative actions, such as the assault on the "bubble" of the television program "Grande Fratello VIP" in 2008 in Rome, together with other occupations of buildings. In 2008, in protest against the failure to organize a national congress, CasaPound occupied the Roman headquarters of the Fiamma Tricolore, and was expelled.

=== Political activities ===
[[File:MSR.jpg|left|thumb|Poster of CasaPound remembering the March on Rome.]]
Since the 2011 administrative elections, CasaPound has presented its candidates in local elections in civic or center-right lists, managing to get some of its representatives elected. From the 2013 elections, on the other hand, he decided to officially present himself with his own autonomous list both nationally and administratively.

The movement, however, had two mayors in the municipalities of Trenzano (Andrea Bianchi, elected in 2013 with the civic list "Civic Action", passed to CasaPound in 2017) until 2018 and in San Pio delle Camere (Pio Feneziani, elected in 2014 with the civic list "Stop Decline", passed to CasaPound in 2018) until 2019.

At the 2014 European Elections, CasaPound supported the election of the Northern League player Mario Borghezio in the Central Italy constituency. From this result a collaboration with the Northern League was born. The relationship was subsequently interrupted due to political differences due to the rapprochement of the Northern League leader with the center-right coalition.

On the May 2015, Andrea Bonazza was elected to the municipal council of Bolzano, the first elected councilor in Italy belonging to CasaPound. Again in Bolzano, on the 8th May 2016, CasaPound earns over 6% of preferences in the municipal elections by passing its municipal councilors from one to three. In that same period, CasaPound opened the possibility of a collaboration with the municipal council of the Democratic Party after the opening offered by the newly elected center-left first citizen Renzo Caramaschi.

On the occasion of the 2016 municipal elections in Rome, Di Stefano ran for the office of mayor. During the presentation speech of the program, he declared that in less than ten years CasaPound would come to the government.

On the 26th June 2019, President Gianluca Iannone decrees the end of the political experience of CasaPound, which returns to being a non-electoral political movement.

In February 2022, Simone Di Stefano resigns from the role of vice-president and leaves the organization.

== Villainy ==

* CasaPound has made various posters revisiting some historical events centered on [[Fascism]], such as the March on Rome, in a positive way.
* On the 11th September 2018, CasaPound had assaulted some antifascists protestants, injuring 3 of them, on the local residence of CPI.
* From the Dicember 2003, CPI had abusevely occupied a pubblic building made up of at least twenty apartments where CasaPound executives have put their family and friends to live Casapound members have used the excuse that the occupants are subject to housing emergency even if the checks by the Guardia di Finanza reveal instead that they are economically self-sufficient. 
* Gianluca Iannone assaulted a plainclothes policeman during a fight on on the 25th April 2004.
* Iannone, together with other members of CasaPound, attacked the journalist Filippo Rossi in Viterbo, accusing him of defamation of the organization.
* On the 29th October 2008, the young people of the Student Block participated in the demonstrations, becoming the protagonists of clashes between students in Piazza Navona during the presidium at the Senate.
* On the 4th November 2008, militants of CasaPound Italia raided the Rai studios to protest against the reconstruction of the facts carried out by the program "Chi l'ha visto?".
* On the 13th December 2011 in Florence, a militant and collaborator of CasaPound, Gianluca Casseri, killed two street vendors of Senegalese origin, seriously injuring a third, only to take his own life shortly before being captured by the police.
* On the 2nd November 2012, Alberto Palladino, manager of CasaPound Italia of the IV Municipality of Rome, was sentenced to 2 years and 8 months for the attack on some members of the Young Democrats.
* In December 2013, as part of the extended protest led by the Forconi Movement, about one hundred activists of the association demonstrated in front of the Roman headquarters of the European Union. In this context, clashes with the police intervened in riot gear. Among those arrested by the police there is also the vice president of CasaPound, Simone Di Stefano, who is arrested and then convicted on charges of multiple theft for having stolen the EU flag as a demonstrative gesture, replacing it with the tricolor one. In September 2016, Di Stefano was arrested again during the eviction of two families who illegally occupied a building, to which CasaPound resisted by throwing eggs, bottles, paint and metal objects.
* Some CasaPound members have modified the Wikipedia page made on CasaPound, Student Block and Zetazeroalfa, deleting some information that was unwelcome to improve their image.

== Trivia ==

* The social center has its own musical group of reference, the Zetazeroalfa, founded by Iannone and a web radio (Radiobandieranera).
* In 2006, CasaPound set up its own student organization, called the Student Block, and also decided to join the Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore party.
* Although CasaPound is a neo-fascist party, it was the only right-wing party that declared itself in favor of recognizing a form of civil unions also for homosexuals (while expressing itself against marriage and adoptions), that had favoured euthanesia and abortion.
* Some militants of CasaPound had partecipated in the days of the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake emergency.

* On the October 2013, CasaPound created an online journal called "Primato Nazionale-Quotidiano Sovranista" (National Primacy-Sovereignist Newspaper).
* The name of the group comes from the poet [https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ezra-Pound Ezra Pound].

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