[3] In the mid 1980s, Borghezio was a member of the group around the Orion magazine, a meeting point of Piemontese neofascists, and he served as director of the economic supplement, Orion-Finanza.

[7] He was found guilty of arson in July 2005, for setting fire to the pallets of some migrants sleeping under a bridge in Turin during a vigilante raid.

[12] He was suspended for three months on 30 July 2011 by his party for praising several of the ideas in the manifesto of Anders Behring Breivik, the terrorist who perpetrated the 2011 Norway attacks.

[13] In June 2013, he was expelled from the Europe of Freedom and Democracy, a eurosceptic group in the European Parliament, for making racist remarks regarding Italy's first black cabinet minister, Cécile Kyenge.

“I think that, under the principle of transparency, the EU member states have a duty to make public and available to all scientific data on UFOs which today are partially or wholly withheld”.

[17] In May 2011, he made inflammatory remarks after the arrest of Ratko Mladić, the Serbian military leader indicted for war crimes at the Hague, including the genocide of 8000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica.

[22] In October 2012 Borghezio cosponsored with fellow MEP Lorenzo Fontana a motion for a declaration by the EU Parliament calling upon Pope Benedict XVI to carry out the Consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.