The Rise of Italian Satanists

BBC


Italian police want to set up a special unit to tackle the growth of new religious sects, particularly a violent new breed of home-grown Satanists.

The new police squad would include psychologists, as well as a priest who is an expert on the occult.

It would co-ordinate - nationwide - investigations into potentially dangerous religious movements.

The move follows a spate of high profile, gruesome murders blamed on a new generation of Satanists.

They indulge in a lethal blend of black magic, hard drugs, sex and heavy metal.

In the most recent case a gang known as the "Beasts of Satan" bludgeoned, then buried alive, two of their own members - a young woman and her boyfriend - in woods outside Milan.

Experts say the number of Satanists in Italy is tiny - and the product as much of youthful alienation as of any more traditional religious conviction.

But more than a million Italians belong to other minority religions, and some experts are worried that the new police squad could target members of them as well - even though, despite their perhaps strange beliefs, they are entirely harmless.

The police need to concentrate on tackling Satanic criminality, says one of the country's leading experts on new religions, or they will end up threatening religious freedom as well as wasting scarce resources.

That black magic, hard drugs, sex, heavy metal is the cause of this terrible satanic movement :) Now really that were these people on, or not.
The priest is there for the exorcising of those hardline Christian Right groups?
Now who has a problem with paranoia? You can see why they need the psychologists.

a priest who is an expert in the "occult". yeah, riiiiight. i love reading christian propaganda about occultism. especially about d&d :1orglaugh

a laugh riot.

now, if the police wanted to form a special unit to target ayn rand groupie objectivists, that'd be cool.

I want that job.

who knows maybe in a thousand years satan will be long forgotten and it'll be that evil gang known as the beasts of christ