Il Veltro (Italian for "The Greyhound") was an international terrorist organization. Its members all wore gas masks, concealing their true identities. Their name and slogan ("infin che'l veltro verrà, che la farà morir con doglia." or "until the Greyhound comes, who shall make her perish in her pain.") refers to a speech in Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy (Inferno, Canto I), where the poet Virgil tells Dante how the she-wolf from the poem's beginning will be dealt with by a Greyhound that will eventually come.
taken out to sea as the city was destroyed by Regia Solis. Norman and a dozen militants survived for a year in a sealed compartment of the ship, dying one-by-one until only Norman was left alive. After the FBC attempted to board the ship and seize a PDA implicating Lansdale, Norman infected himself with t-Abyss. He was eventually killed by BSAA members Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine, both of whom had also been sent to retrieve the information.