State Department makes first-ever Antifa foreign terrorist designations across Europe

The State Department designates four Antifa-linked groups in Germany, Italy and Greece as Foreign Terrorist Organizations in the first such action against these groups.

The four Antifa-aligned cells active in Europe — in Germany, Italy and Greece — are accused of organizing or carrying out bombings, shootings and other politically motivated attacks.

The designation requires U.S. financial institutions to freeze assets of FTOs and SDGTs and ban entry of the group’s members into the U.S. It allows the U.S. to criminally prosecute those under U.S. jurisdiction who offer material support to FTOs or conspire to offer such support.