An Interview with Ex-offender Frank Portinari: a gun runner for terrorists

Security Thought Leadership: in conversation with Martin Gill

While it is well known that in order to operate terrorists need weapons, what is less well known and much less discussed is how they get them.
In this interview, Frank Portinari explains how he developed from being a football hooligan, to involvement in right wing extremism, to supplying guns to loyalist paramilitaries entering the world of terrorism and assassinations and eventually prison. It is a compelling tale which offers important insights for how we understand the route people take into terrorist activities and how we might think about curtailing it.
A video and summary of this session is available here: https://www.theospas.com/2022/10/14/an-interview-with-ex-offender-frank-portinari-a-gun-runner-for-terrorists/
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