(supersedes previous)(ANSA) - Turin, September 6 -
Investigators said Tuesday three bombs set by insurrectionists
from the Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI) "aimed to kill"
first responders.
Seven suspects were arrested earlier today on charges of
subversive association with intent to commit terrorist acts in
connection with two devices set June 2, 2006, at a carabinieri
police academy in the town of Fossano in Piedmont and a third
bomb that went off March 5, 2007, in a pedestrian zone in
Turin's Crocetta neighborhood.
The devices had been timed to go off at intervals in order
to harm and kill as many first responders as possible, police
said.
Five of the seven suspects were named as Anna Beniamino,
46, Marco Bisesti, 33, Danilo Emiliano Cremonese, 40, Alessandro
Mercogliano, 43, and Valentina Spaziale, 39.
The other two suspects are FAI anarchists Alfredo Cospito
and Nicola Gai, who were sentenced in 2013 to 10 years, eight
months and nine years, four months respectively for kneecapping
Ansaldo Nucleare SpA nuclear power plant design company ex-CEO
Roberto Adinolfi in May 2012.
Also as part of today's operation, the bomb squad and
canine units searched 30 individuals and 29 homes across nine
Italian regions from North to South - namely Abruzzo, Campania,
Emilia Romagna, Lazio, Liguria, Lombardy, Piedmont, Sardinia and
Umbria.
Another eight suspects were placed under investigation.
FAI is accused of carrying out some 50 subversive attacks
in 13 years of activity, with the stated aim of bringing about
the "destruction of the State and capital" by targeting the
structures of "domination".
These included a 2003 package bomb sent to ex-premier
Romano Prodi, an April 2013 letter bomb sent to La Stampa daily
paper, and a device that exploded near a courthouse in the port
city of Civitavecchia in January this year.
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