Michele Broili, the strange story of the boxer who fights covered with Nazi tattoos: from the salute to Hitler to the symbol of the SS

On Saturday evening, in Trieste, under the colors of the Ardita Trieste, Broili, coached by Denis Conte, former regional secretary of Forza Nuova, now a candidate for the Trieste City Council in the Brothers of Italy quota, fought for the title of the Superpiuma weights . Now he risks sanctions and disqualification

TRIESTE. Michele Broili has been a professional boxer for 3 years. He is 28 years old. And for years, at least ten, his body has been covered with tattoos.

Tattoos with an explicit, heavy content, which refer, without too many doubts, to Nazi symbols. On Saturday evening, in Trieste, under the colors of the Ardita Trieste, Broili, coached by Denis Conte, former regional secretary of Forza Nuova, now a candidate for the Trieste City Council in the Brothers of Italy quota, fought for the title of the Superpiuma weights . The meeting was streamed. And the images of those tattoos have rebounded on the web, causing very strong controversy.

The tattoo with the greatest impact on Michele Broili’s body is certainly the representation of a castle with the words “Return to Camelot”, a title that evokes the mystique of King Arthur, so dear to the right. But not only.

Return to Camelot is the name given to the five-year gathering organized by Veneto Fronte Skinheads, a cultural association, officially founded in 1990, with acclaimed references to Nazism and racism. On the chest Michele’s tattoos increase.

And the symbols that refer directly to National Socialism are more evident. Starting with the flag with the letters SS in runic characters, abbreviation of Schutzstaffel (Protection Squads), a paramilitary organization created directly by Adolf Hitler in the mid-twenties as a security service during the rallies of the National Socialist party in Bavaria, which later became with the Hitler’s rise to power was the most ruthless state police organization in Nazi Germany.

One of the SS departments, among the most feared when in charge of the control of the Nazi concentration camps, was that of the Totenkopfverbände (Death’s head unit) who used a skull as a symbol, a symbol that Broili always tattooed on his chest.

But that’s not all. Next to the left shoulder, the Ardita boxer sports two digits, 88, a reference to the eighth letter of the alphabet, the H: 88, therefore, is a “secret” reference to the expression Heil Hitler, the greeting used by the Nazis.