Claudio Mutti

Claudio Mutti (born May 24, 1946) is an Italian neofascist. In the 1960s, he was a member of Young Italy (the juvenile wing of the Italian Social Movement, which expelled him for extremism) and the euronationalist Jeune Europe movement. In 1980 he was arrested in connection with the Bologna massacre, alongside fellow neofascist ideologues Paolo Signorelli and Aldo Semerari. He converted to Islam in the 1980s, having become influenced by Julius Evola, Rene Guenon, and Muammar Gaddafi. He met with Aleksandr Dugin in 1990. Mark Sedgwick describes him as an important figure in late twentieth-century Traditionalist networks in Europe.