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Renzi Brussels attacks 'came from within,' calls for common security

Renzi Brussels attacks 'came from within,' calls for common security

'Threat global, killers local' says Italian premier

Rome, 22 March 2016, 18:47

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Italian Premier Matteo Renzi said Tuesday this morning's Islamist terrorist attacks that claimed at least 34 lives in Brussels came from within.
    "Belgium has been hit, the capital and heart of the European Union," Renzi said.
    "It is time to say without mincing our words: the attackers came from within the places that were hit - the threat is global but the killers were also local killers".
    In order to beat Islamist terrorism "the EU should go all the way - a unified security and defence structure is needed," Renzi said.
    "Those offering miracle solutions don't realise how long-lasting this situation will be," the Italian premier went on.
    "Those who fool themselves by saying 'let's close the borders' don't realise that the enemies are already within our cities". The rage in the wake of the attacks must be used constructively to defeat Islamist extremism, Renzi continued.
    "Now is not the time for impulsive reactions," he said. "We need to stay calm but we need all our rage, we need (to channel it) into a reaction that can become a project that can face down and destroy Islamist extremism and (its) deranged trail of death," the premier said.
    "The terrorists struck at the locations of daily life, following a sad script that has generated other attacks," Renzi said, expressing Italy's "brotherly condolences to the people of Belgium for the terrible attack".
    "Our countries are united by a historic relationship of deep friendship and today's tears bring us even closer together," the premier said.
    "Our sympathies are with the families of the victims, their pain which began today and will never end, with the wounded".
    Earlier, Renzi called Belgian Premier Charles Michel to convey Italy's condolences.
    Renzi also said that Italian officials is busy verifying the conditions of three Italian nationals who were reported injured in the attacks.
   

Italian officials on Tuesday expressed their dismay at the bloody terrorist attacks that left scores dead and injured in Brussels earlier in the day.
"In Brussels, Europe, in heart and mind," tweeted Premier Matteo Renzi. President Sergio Mattarella said liberty itself is at stake.
"We must face this decisive challenge with a common strategy that considers all aspects of the situation - security-wise, militarily, culturally, and on the cooperation and development front," he said in a statement. "Liberty and the future of human cohabitation are at stake".
Senate Speaker Pietro Grasso called for unity. "The first political reaction is one of unity, cohesion and firmness," he said. "The news causes us deep anguish. My thoughts go out to all those who are suffering, to the families of the victims and the wounded. This was a symbolic attack, a reaction and a strategic one. We must reconnect to Europe's founding values - solidarity, cohesion, strength". Italy's Lower House observed a minute of silence for the victims. "We express our sympathies and solidarity...with the Belgian people and the families of the victims and the wounded (of this) vile and barbaric attack," said Deputy House Speaker Marina Sereni. "We must show maximum firmness in defence of the fundamental liberties and values of which Europe and Italy are the bearers". "My thoughts go out to the Belgian people and government," Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni said. Interior Minister Angelino Alfano also expressed his condolences: "my thoughts go out to the families of the victims and the people affected by this savage attack that has struck at the heart of Europe".

The EU's High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy Federica Mogherini was tearful when talking Tuesday about the Brussels terror attacks during a visit to Amman. "Europe and its capital are suffering the same grief which the regions of he Middle East have known and know every day," she said. She said "we are united not only in grief for the victims but also in the reactions to these acts of extremism and violence". At this point she started crying and Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Jodeh put an arm around her shoulder to accompany her into another room.

Defence Minister Roberta Pinotti was among the many Italian leaders to express their solidarity with the victims of Tuesday's multiple terrorist attacks in Brussels that left at least 26 people dead and 135 wounded. "Pain and mourning for the victims of the terrorist attacks in Brussels," Pinotti said in a post to her Twitter account. Health Minister Beatrice Lorenzin also entrusted her feelings to Twitter. "Their pain is my pain, our pain," she wrote. "Only a united and caring Euriope can defeat the ills of our time." Her thoughts were echoed by ex president of the republic Giorgio Napolitano, who described the attacks as an "insult to the unity and freedom of Europe". "They must become motivation not only for waging a common and boundless battle against international terrorism, but also for highlighting fully and with absolute determination those conquests of the European construction that we have let be scorned by those who deny them and obscured in the memory and conscience of too many citizens of our Europe," Napolitano said. Susanna Camusso, leader of Italy's biggest trade union federation CGIl, called on "diplomacy and peace" rather than weapons to speak in response to a "new series of attacks". Ex civil protection chief and centre-right mayor candidate for Rome Guido Bertolaso also made an appeal for peace. "These actions are not just the result of madness but also of the incapacity to manage complex problems on a global level," he said. "What is happening in Syria did not come about by chance … bulldozers don't lead anywhere," Bertolaso continued. "I fear the problem of these attacks has also been caused by a series of bulldozers, metaphorically speaking. This is the lesson of history. Barbed wire, repression and canon fire have never improved mankind," he added. "Europe is burning under the fire of Islamic fundamentalism and the government appears not to notice: (Premier Matteo) Renzi, (Interior Minister Angelino) Alfano and (President Sergio) Mattarella tell us terrorism must be fought with culture but it is a phrase that is good for (wrapping) chocolates," said Bertolaso's right-wing rival for mayor, Brothers of Italy (FdI) president Giorgia Meloni, possibly alluding to the notes of love and friendship that are used to wrap Perugina's Baci chocolates.

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