(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 2 - Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said Friday that Susanna Schlein, a senior official at the Italian embassy in Athens, was lucky to be alive after a firebomb attack on vehicles outside her residence overnight.
    A car belonging to Schlein, the sister of Democratic Party (PD) lawmaker Elly Schlein, was completely destroyed in an explosion caused by a firebomb.
    There was also an attempt to set alight another car, near to which a Molotov cocktail with a half burned fuse was found.
    "It's a miracle she is alive," Tajani said on the sidelines of the Med Dialogues conference.
    "Fortunately the Molotov under a car near to a gas system, which is under the family bedroom, did not go off".
    In a statement, Premier Giorgia Meloni expressed "my personal solidarity and that of the government to the First Counsellor of Italy's embassy in Athens, Susanna Schlein, and deep concern about the attack that hit her, which was probably of an anarchist nature.
    In recent days there have been slogans daubed on the Italian embassy in Athens expressing solidarity with the hunger strike of jailed Italian anarchist Alfredo Cospito, who is protesting against his detention under the tough conditions of the 41 bis regime normally reserved for mafia convicts. (ANSA).