Bologna, September 13, 2026 – Who is behind the anti-degradation walk in Bolognina on Thursday, contested by the antagonists? From influencers to kickboxers, from the MEP to the TV commentator, they are Italians, Dutch, French, Polish, Nigerians. The ages are very varied: from 24 to 47 years old. And there are even connections with the Maga world close to Trump.
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It can only start from Dutch Travel Maniac, the channel of the Dutch Tom van den Heuvel, 35 years old (present in Bolognina), with over one million and 100 thousand followers: the well-known TikToker is known for his far-right ideas.
Behind Therabbit91 there is instead Robbie Hageman, 35 years old, a former professional kickboxer and Dutch coach, with over 20 thousand followers, who just yesterday posted a video in the car with Fred Sikking (account fred_sikking), 46 years old, also from the Netherlands and also a well-known professional kickboxer and Dutch Muay Thai fighter, with 125 thousand followers: he is part of the BKFC, the largest bare-knuckle boxing organization based in the USA.
And then Julien Masson, alias ’adrenalinecombatives’ 39 years old, on social media (4,000 followers), French, lives in England, travels throughout Europe to give self-defense lessons, and the ’our’ Jollytime, that is Ambrose Omo Irogho, 32 years old, influencer originally from Nigeria and known in Bologna, where he lives, for many videos against degradation and drug dealing in the city.
“They call us fascists”
Among those who participated in the initiative on Thursday in Bolognina, the Italian community ’ilmondochevorrei_ofc account’ also appears, 68 thousand followers, led by Leonardo, who publishes videos from Florence and who behind the nickname defines himself as a ’fictional character’ and is followed among others by ’Welcometofavelas’: he describes himself as committed to security in his city and the fight against degradation.
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“They call us fascists, they are against us for no reason, we were just walking. This is Bologna,” he commented the other day together with Jollytime after the ’walk’ in Bolognina with the Italian flag.
But, behind these influencers, there is a much wider network and characters with much higher follower numbers: with them, Dutch also made videos in Rome, but they were not present the other day in Bolognina. Part of this network is, for example, Eva Vlaardingerbroek, 30 years old: born in Amsterdam and married to the Italian lawyer Francesco Gargallo di Castel Lentini, she has over one million and 300 thousand followers. Dutch activist and TV commentator, she is known for her far-right positions: among others, the conspiracy theory of the Great Replacement.
There is also the European parliamentarian
Part of the large network is also Dominik Tarczyński, 47 years old, Polish politician and member of the European Parliament since 2020, with 869 thousand followers and a friend of Tommy Robinson, pseudonym of Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon, a politician and criminal who is part of the British far right and a bearer of anti-Islamic and Islamophobic stances: Robinson has been convicted and imprisoned several times for violence, drugs, and fraud and is one of the founders of the English Defence League (EDL).
Among the best known of the large right-wing influencer network, there is also an Italian: Lorenzo Caccialupi, a 24-year-old Roman student with 498 thousand followers, who also launched a new political and cultural movement, ’Raise the Flag’. And who on social media tells of his ’climb’ to popularity starting from the meeting in the United States with Charlie Kirk, a far-right activist assassinated on September 10, 2025, on the stage of Utah Valley University. During the meeting with Kirk, Caccialupi also spoke about Italy, attacking his country’s migration policies and talking about the arrival of rapists and criminals that the left would like to welcome. “Make Italy great again,” Kirk replied, giving him a cap.
