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Rome: Bomb blasts in the Chilean and Swiss mbassies in Rome injured two staffers today in attacks thatofficials said may have been carried out by anarchists like the ones behind a similar plot in Greece. Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said the attacks represented 'a serious threat' against foreign embassies, while Chile's ambassador Oscar Godoy Arcaya condemned 'an absolutely irrational and brutal act of terrorism.' Police said checks were under way in all the embassies in the Italian capital and the city's mayor said emergency services were on the ready. 'This is a wave of terrorism against the embassies. It's more worrying than a single attack,' the mayor, Gianni Alemanno, told reporters.
'International lines of inquiry are being followed,' Alemanno said. Interior Minister Roberto Maroni said investigators were
following a possible anarchist link behind the attacks 'following analogous incidents that happened in November in Greece.'
'These are very violent groups present also in Spain and Greece with close links between them,' Maroni said. Prosecutors opened an inquiry for an attack with 'terrorist' intent. In a suspected anarchist far-left plot in Greece last
month, bombs were sent to foreign embassies in Athens and European leaders including Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
Over a dozen packages containing explosives were sent in that plot, prompting Greece to suspend international mail for two days. At least four of the packages ignited or exploded, slightly injuring one person. Anarchists were also believed to be behind a series of parcel bomb attacks nicknamed operation 'Santa Klaus' in Italy in December 2003 that was targeted mainly at then European Commission chief Romano Prodi. Thursday's attack left the Swiss mail worker who opened the package in the embassy building seriously injured. The 53-year-old man is reportedly in hospital and risks losing his hand.
A Chilean embassy staffer wounded in a second bomb blast shortly after the Swiss embassy explosion also received
injuries to his hands. 'We can't understand why we were attacked in this way.The package was addressed to the cultural office and was opened by the civil servant who injured himself as he opened it,' the Chilean ambassador told reporters.
'His life is not in danger but there was blood everywhere,' he said. The package was sent from an Italian address, ANSA news agency reported. (AFP)
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following a possible anarchist link behind the attacks 'following analogous incidents that happened in November in Greece.'
'These are very violent groups present also in Spain and Greece with close links between them,' Maroni said. Prosecutors opened an inquiry for an attack with 'terrorist' intent. In a suspected anarchist far-left plot in Greece last
month, bombs were sent to foreign embassies in Athens and European leaders including Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
Over a dozen packages containing explosives were sent in that plot, prompting Greece to suspend international mail for two days. At least four of the packages ignited or exploded, slightly injuring one person. Anarchists were also believed to be behind a series of parcel bomb attacks nicknamed operation 'Santa Klaus' in Italy in December 2003 that was targeted mainly at then European Commission chief Romano Prodi. Thursday's attack left the Swiss mail worker who opened the package in the embassy building seriously injured. The 53-year-old man is reportedly in hospital and risks losing his hand.
A Chilean embassy staffer wounded in a second bomb blast shortly after the Swiss embassy explosion also received
injuries to his hands. 'We can't understand why we were attacked in this way.The package was addressed to the cultural office and was opened by the civil servant who injured himself as he opened it,' the Chilean ambassador told reporters.
'His life is not in danger but there was blood everywhere,' he said. The package was sent from an Italian address, ANSA news agency reported. (AFP)
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