Salvini Says Death Threat Led Italian Police to Missile Seizure

  • Investigation by Turin police finds assault rifles, pistols
  • Probe initially focused on suspects who’d fought in Ukraine
Anti-terrorist police inspect an air-to-air missile in Turin on July 15.Photographer: Tinto Romano/EPA
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Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini said that a probe into a plot by Ukranians to kill him led to the seizure of an air-to-air missile in the northern city of Turin on Monday.

Police detained an alleged neo-Nazi and two other suspects in an investigation into weapons trafficking that uncovered the missile, authorities said in a statement.