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December 28, 2010, Tuesday
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A BOMB in a letter was found at the Greek Embassy in Rome yesterday, four days after similar mail bombs exploded at two other -embassies -injuring two people. The -device was defused and no one was injured.
Carabinieri Colonel Maurizio Mezzavilla said the bomb was similar to the ones that exploded on Thursday at the Chilean and Swiss embassies. An anarchist group with reported ties to Greek anarchists claimed responsibility for those blasts.
Greek Foreign Ministry spokesman Gregoris Delavekouras said from Athens that no one was harmed in the latest incident, in part because heightened security measures had been put in place.
"The embassy was evacuated and staff assembled some distance away from the building, so that everyone could be accounted for," he said.
"There were already heightened security measures at the Greek and other embassies, so the procedure that had to be followed was clear. The -matter is now in the hands of the Italian police."
Police, carabinieri and firefighters massed around the building yesterday while the Greek Embassy staff lingered outside. The street, in the residential Parioli neighborhood, remained open to traffic.
Ambassador Michalis Kambanis said the letter was discovered at about 10:30am.
"We immediately informed the carabinieri who arrived here within three minutes," he said. "We (notified) the appropriate services and the bomb was neutralized."
There have been other reports of suspicious packages in recent days that turned out to be false alarms. Yesterday, police responded to suspicious packages at the embassies of Venezuela, Monaco and Denmark, all were false alarms.
An Italian group calling itself the Informal Anarchist Federation claimed responsibility for Thursday's blasts. News reports said that a claim found at one of the embassies cited the name of Lambros Fountas, a Greek anarchist who was killed in a shootout with police in March.
Interior Minister Roberto Maroni has said that investigators believe the anarchists who were responsible might have ties to Greek anarchists.
Carabinieri Colonel Maurizio Mezzavilla said the bomb was similar to the ones that exploded on Thursday at the Chilean and Swiss embassies. An anarchist group with reported ties to Greek anarchists claimed responsibility for those blasts.
Greek Foreign Ministry spokesman Gregoris Delavekouras said from Athens that no one was harmed in the latest incident, in part because heightened security measures had been put in place.
"The embassy was evacuated and staff assembled some distance away from the building, so that everyone could be accounted for," he said.
"There were already heightened security measures at the Greek and other embassies, so the procedure that had to be followed was clear. The -matter is now in the hands of the Italian police."
Police, carabinieri and firefighters massed around the building yesterday while the Greek Embassy staff lingered outside. The street, in the residential Parioli neighborhood, remained open to traffic.
Ambassador Michalis Kambanis said the letter was discovered at about 10:30am.
"We immediately informed the carabinieri who arrived here within three minutes," he said. "We (notified) the appropriate services and the bomb was neutralized."
There have been other reports of suspicious packages in recent days that turned out to be false alarms. Yesterday, police responded to suspicious packages at the embassies of Venezuela, Monaco and Denmark, all were false alarms.
An Italian group calling itself the Informal Anarchist Federation claimed responsibility for Thursday's blasts. News reports said that a claim found at one of the embassies cited the name of Lambros Fountas, a Greek anarchist who was killed in a shootout with police in March.
Interior Minister Roberto Maroni has said that investigators believe the anarchists who were responsible might have ties to Greek anarchists.
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