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A parcel bomb was found at the Greek embassy in Rome Monday, police said, days after two explosive packages went off, injuring two staffers at the city's Chilean and Swiss missions. The package was "similar to those that exploded last week in the Chilean and Swiss embassies," police spokesman Salvatore Cagnazzo told AFP. There were eight false alarms at the embassies of Denmark, Finland, Albania, Monaco, Morocco, Sweden, Ukraine and Venezuela, police and Italian news reports said. "There's an anarchist group, a terrorist group that wants to send a signal on an international level," the mayor of Rome, Gianni Alemanno, said, adding that the city was now on "maximum vigilance." Greece's ambassador to Italy, Michael Cambanis, was quoted by La Repubblica on its website as saying that the parcel bomb had "arrived on Friday but no-one opened it because of the Christmas holiday." Last week's blasts were claimed by an Italian anarchist group calling itself the Informal Federation of Anarchy (FAI). Investigators said they believed the claim was "reliable" and backed by "objective checks." The FAI statement was signed by the "Lambros Fountas Cell" - a reference to a Greek anarchist killed after a shootout with police in March. A Greek police spokesman, Thanassis Kokkalakis, said that it did not appear that any Greek extremists were involved in the Rome attacks and that the reference may have been a "measure of solidarity" between groups. The FAI has claimed around 30 low-key attacks in Italy in recent years, starting with bombs set off in a rubbish bin in Bologna outside the home of then- European Commission chief Romano Prodi in 2003. The FAI has mainly targeted the police and prison authorities, with last week's bombs believed to be the first attacks to have injured someone. AFP |
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