Gaetano Saya

Who is Gaetano Saya?

General Gaetano Saya is a far right Italian politician, former leader of the National Right, a ultranationalist far-right party.

General Saya has claimed he was a former member of Gladio, NATO's stay-behind anti-Communist network during the Cold War, involved in Italy's strategy of tension during the "Years of Lead."

General Gaetano Saya was charged in November 2004 of hate speech diffused through his party website.

He was arrested in 2005 by the prosecutor of Genova on charges of having constituted a "parallel police", named D.S.S.A.. In 2011 was judged not guilty by the Prosecutor of the Court of Milan. According to judicial sources, Il Messaggero, quoted by The Independent, declared that wiretaps suggested DSSA members had been planning to kidnap Cesare Battisti, former member of the Armed Proletarians for Communism.