Here is a translation of a press release from the communications committee of the Italian Anarchist Federation (whose acronym is FAI from the Italian: FEDERAZIONE ANARCHICA ITALIANA). The press release pertains to the hostile media campaign and repression targeted against the anarchist movement in Italy.
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TERROR GEGEN DIE EU
IM WORTLAUT
"Schändliche EU"
Die Federazione Anarchica Informale rechtfertigt die Attentate der "Operation Santa Claus" in einem offenen Brief so: "Die Konsolidierung der EU, welche die Schändlichkeiten der politischen, ökonomischen und militärischen/repressiven Entscheidungen der einzelnen Staaten in sich vereint, schreitet fort. Der Beschluss einer europäischen Verfassung, die eine Neuauflage der Dominanzpolitik des alten Kontinents legitimiert, rückt näher. Indes beginnen wir eine Kampagne des Kampfes. (...) Heute haben wir Apparate der Kontrolle/Repression und Protagonisten der demokratischen Inszenierung getroffen, die zentrale Figuren und Institutionen der neuen europäischen Ordnung sein werden: Polizeien, das Kerkersystem, Bürokraten und Politiker. Die Aktionen werden - wie jene, die noch folgen - Unschuldige schonen. Wir werden weiterhin für unseren Hass auf Staat und Kapital und unsere Liebe für eine Welt frei von der Herrschaft des Menschen über den Menschen auftreten." Unterzeichnet haben das den Brandsätzen beigelegte Flugblatt vier Gruppierungen der Anarchischen Föderation. (red)
http://www.agi.it/english/news.pl
LETTER BOMBS: SOLIDARITY GOES OUT TO POETTERING
(AGI) - Rome, Italy, Jan. 5 - "My friend and colleague Hans Gert Poettering has the solidarity of the Italian Chamber of Deputies", said House president Pier Ferdinando Casini while commenting on the news of the letter bomb that exploded this morning in the European People's Party President's office. (AGI)
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http://www.agi.it/english/news.pl?doc=200401052047-1217-RT1-CRO-0-NF82&page=0&id=agionline-eng.italyonline
LETTER BOMBS: FRATTINI, OUTRAGE AND SOLIDARITY
(AGI) - Rome, Jan. 5 - The outrage of the Italian government and the solidarity for the MPEs targeted by the letter bombs sent from Bologna are contained in the messages sent by Italian foreign affairs minister Franco Frattini to those who have been targeted.
Frattini's ministry has said that, after the "vile intimidatory acts" agains the leader and the deputy leader of the Popular European party in the European parliament, Hans-Gert Poettering and Jose' Ignazio Salafranca, and the deputy leader of the Socialist party in the European parliament, Gary Titley, Frattini has sent them a message in which he expresses the solidarity of the Italian government and his personal solidarity following these new "abominable criminal gestures against the European institutions and their representatives". In his messages minister Frattini said that the Italian government will do all it can to defend the European institutions and that it will fight any form of terrorism. (AGI)
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http://www.agi.it/english/news.pl?doc=200401052007-1200-RT1-CRO-0-NF82&page=0&id=agionline-eng.italyonline
TERRORISM: PISANU MEETING, DE GENNARO AND NOBLE (INTERPOL)
(AGI) - Rome, 12 January - There has been a further Interior Ministry meeting about anarcho-insurrectionalist terrorism. Taking part were Interior Minister, Giuseppe Pisanu, chief of police, Prefect Gianni De Gennaro, and Interpol, secretary general, Ronald Noble. The two high functionaries told Pisanu that they have agreed on the adoption of new preventative measures in the light of the recent terrorist threat at a European level. In particular, on the technical level, the new measures allow for using Interpol's global communication network, called "I-24/7", which allows for 181 national Interpol offices to communicate in real time with the Lyons General Secretariat. It will thus allow for information about bombs etc. to be communicated instantly. Via the communication network, indeed, all countries connected to the database will be able to receive signals, pictures and photos necessary for the police. Technically, 'I-24/7, or Interpol Global Communications Network, is a system guaranteed by its own line and sophisticated encription. The Interpol Global Communications System further allows each country directly to consult the computer databases of Interpol HQ in Lyons on people on the run, on suspected terrorists, on stolen cars, on I.D. and travel cards that have been robbed or cloned. Via this system it is thus possible to transmit signals and alerts.
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http://www.agi.it/english/news.pl?doc=200401122048-1186-RT1-CRO-0-NF82&page=0&id=agionline-eng.italyonline
http://www.ueitalia2003.it/EN/Notizie/dalMondo/
Terrorism: Fourth EU Letter Bomb, Eurojust Targeted
Date: Tuesday, 30 December 2003 18:23
Policy Area: From the World
(ANSA) - Brussels, December 30 - A parcel bomb has been sent to Eurojust in The Hague, the Dutch public prosecutor's office said here today.
A spokesperson said that the letter was delivered to the European Union's judicial liaison quarters this morning.
This was the fourth such letter sent to the European Union's institutions during the last week.
The spokesperson said that investigators were seeking to ascertain whether the letter had been posted in Bologna, as with the previous three packages, and if the sender was the same.
Police have said they think that anarchists are behind the letter-bombing campaign, which has seen explosive devices sent to European Commission Chief Romano Prodi, Europol and the head of the European Central Bank Jean-Claude Trichet.
So far, no one has been hurt.
Judicial sources today confirmed that the sender listed on the Trichet packet was a non-existent publishing house on Via dei Terribilia, Bologna, the site of an attempted 2001 attack on a nearby police station. They also revealed that the sender's name on the Europol packet was that of a 19th-century French anarchist, Emile Henry.
Security measures at all European institutions have been stepped up.
by: Ansa
http://www.ueitalia2003.it/EN/Notizie/Notizia_12301835368.htm
Terrorism: Bologna Prosecutors Block All Parcels For EU
Date: Wednesday, 31 December 2003 14:51
Policy Area: From the World
(ANSA) - Bologna, December 31 - The Bologna public prosecutor's office has issued a decree blocking all parcels sent from Emilia Romagna that are currently en route to European Union institutions, offices and related bodies.
The decree will allow police to examine packets still in sorting offices and scan them to make sure they contain no dangerous substances, thereby preventing further terrorist attacks.
This is one of a series of security reinforcement measures for European institutions after four parcel bombs sent from Bologna were delivered to EU officials or offices last week. European Commission President Romano Prodi, the director of the European Central Bank (ECB) Jean Claude Trichet, Eurpol and Eurojust all received similar parcels.
Prodi has called for people to stand "united against terrorism, against all those who seek to break political, cultural and military harmony".
He described 2003 as a difficult year, marked by the war on Iraq, which "divided governments and created unease". On that note, he expressed the hope that 2004 would allow "the broken threads to be retied" and said that one such occasion for this could be the European Union's enlargement in May.
http://www.ueitalia2003.it/EN/Notizie/dalMondo/Notizia_12311505998.htm
Terrorism: Letter-Bombs To EU Institutions From Bologna
Date: Tuesday, 30 December 2003 14:33
Policy Area: From the World
(ANSA) - Rome, December 30 - The anarchists sending letter bombs appear to be focusing on the European Union's institutions.
After a letter bomb exploded in European Commission President Romano Prodi's hands on Saturday, another two letter bombs were delivered to European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet yesterday, one in Frankfurt and the other in The Hague.
Both appear to have been sent from Bologna and were intercepted by German and Dutch security agents. Neither of the attacks caused any harm.
While investigations continued yesterday, Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu summoned a meeting at the Interior Ministry and will address parliament on the issue immediately after the holidays.
Preliminary investigations have revealed that an Italian anarchist network appears to be behind all three attacks.
http://www.ueitalia2003.it/EN/Notizie/dalMondo/Notizia_12301447078.htm
Terrorism: Joint U.S.-Europe Effort Can Beat It, Ciampi Says
Date: Thursday, 13 November 2003 14:42
Policy Area: From the World
(ANSA) - Washington, November 13 - Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi recalled the massacre of Italian soldiers and police in southern Iraq yesterday during his first official meeting in a visit to the US.
Friendship and cooperation between Italy and the US, he observed "remain solid, now more than ever in a moment like this when together we are forced to deal with painful losses in the battle against terrorism and to help Iraq become a free and democratic country."
At his arrival in Washington last night, Ciampi said: "We will not waver in our efforts to find those responsible for this horrendous attack. The fight against terrorism must be a priority for all nations, which must stand united in wiping it out."
Speaking shortly afterwards, during a ceremony to award the prestigious Marshall Foundation prize to US Secretary of State Colin Powell, the Italian head of state called for the urgent implementation of United Nations Resolution 1511, approved unanimously by the Security Council. The resolution calls for speeding up the transfer of power to a sovereign Iraqi government.
Ciampi stressed: "A united Europe does not and never will have the intention of loosening its ties with the US. Though a united Europe foresees different stances, it will reach a balanced outlook. Europeans and Americans are and will remain friends and allies, continuing their dialogue and listening to each other in full respect."
US Vice President Dick Cheney honoured the memory of the Italians slain in the southern Iraqi town of Nassiriya, expressing his solidarity and gratitude to Italy.
http://www.ueitalia2003.it/EN/Notizie/dalMondo/Notizia_11131447976.htm
PACKAGES BOMB: EUROPARLAMENTO IN THE VIEW-finder
BRUSSELS - Three package-bomb have been sent to as many europarlamentari, two to the center of the Europarlamento to Brussels, address you to the group leader of the Ppe, Hans Gert Poettering, and to Jose' Ignacio Salafranca, anch' he to europarlamentare of the Ppe, the third party in the office of Manchester of laburista europarlamentare British Gary Titley.
The destined package to Poettering, one containing envelope a book, e' exploded stamani in one of the offices of the group leader of the Ppe to Brussels. The outbreak has not caused important damages and not they are hurt. The plico suspicion addressed to Jose' Ignacio Salafranca e' be uncovered in time and e' hour to I winnow of the forces of emergency of the European Parliament and the Belgium that operate jointly.
The sent package to Manchester instead e' exploded, hurting to one hand the secretary of Titley.
The two package-bomb sent to the Europarlamento to Brussels has been imbucati to Bologna 22 December.
The president of the group of the Ppe, has reported the megaphone Katrin Ruhrmann, e' ' ' shocked from the episode and hour attends the start of surveyings ' '. Poettering e' currently to Brussels and fara' I do not re-enter in the Belgian understood one them in evening.
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Ue, explodes plico bomb to Ppe Poettering, no wounded
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - This morning a letter-bomb sended to the head of the greater political group of the European Parliament is exploded without to provoke the wounded, and plichi others due-tre - remained inesplosi - they have been sent to the Europarlamento.
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http://www.reuters.com/locales/newsArticle.jsp?type=topNews&locale=it_IT&storyID=4073397
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Big wave of pumps in the heart of Europe
x the Haine - Valencia - [ 06,01,04 - 15:46 ]
In the last diverse days letters pumps have exploded in the seats of the highest European political and police representations. The press and the police indicate in line to the anarchists with campña of criminalization against all the libertario movement that already began months ago. The Valencian newspaper the East emv goes further on and puts in a totum revolotum which happens in Europe to the last haltings of anarchists and evacuations in Valencia in a clear work of informative poisoning.
Three members of the Europarlamento receive sent incendiary letters from Italy
Levante-emv. 6 of January of 2004
Three outstanding members of the European Parliament were object yesterday on attempts of attack in a new episode of the mysterious terrorist campaign with explosive letters that for 15 days have been going against the UE. The president and the vice-president of the parliamentary group of Partido European Popular (PPE), the German Hans-Gert Poettering and the Spanish Jose Ignacio Salafranca, respectively, and Gary Titley, leader of the British Labour Party members in the Eurocámara, was the targets.
Efe, Brussels
The big wave of insolvent attacks, has shot all the alarms in the institutions of the UE in this beginning of year. The campaign of letter-bomb, triggered apparently from Italy by grupúsculos anarchists, began the 27 of December with an explosive shipment directed to the address in Bologna of the president of the Commission of the UE, the Italian Prodi Roman, who did not undergo wounds in spite of to have opened personally the letter.
The taken safety measures since then, including the decision at the end of year of the Office of the public prosecutor of Bologna to block all the postal shipments sent from that Italian city to the different seats from the communitarian institutions, have not prevented that the dangerous packages reached yesterday the European capital and the British city of Manchester.
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