New letter bomb reaches EU target
New letter bomb reaches EU target
EC chief Romano Prodi narrowly escaped a bomb attack on Sunday
A letter bomb has been delivered to the headquarters of Eurojust, the EU agency co-ordinating the fight against crime. The device, which did not explode, was the fourth letter bomb delivered to a European figure in the past three days.
European Commission President Romano Prodi escaped unhurt when the first such device exploded at his home in the Italian city of Bologna on Sunday.
Authorities have said the two devices which arrived on Monday were both sent from Bologna.
European Central Bank head Jean-Claude Trichet and Europol were the targets on Monday.
The Hague prosecutor's office said the suspicious package was found at the offices of Eurojust on Tuesday morning.
A bomb squad was defusing the package, the prosecutor's office said in a statement.
The ECB's Jean-Claude Trichet received a bomb a day after Prodi
Eurojust is the EU body which helps co-ordinate investigations among European police forces.
Dutch prosecutors said they were investigating whether the same person was behind all the devices.
German police said they were focusing, with their Italian counterparts, on an anarchist group that has admitted carrying out two other explosions in rubbish bins near Mr Prodi's home in the past week.
Book mystery
Mr Prodi said the package he received at home contained a book wrapped in yellow paper and addressed to his wife, which been cut to insert explosive powder.
The book used was The Pleasure by Gabriele D'Annunzio, a famous early supporter of Fascism before his death in 1938.
Mr Prodi joked that the choice of book might have been ironic.
A previously unknown group known as the Informal Anarchic Federation claimed responsibility for two earlier rubbish bin attacks near Mr Prodi's home in which no-one was hurt.
In a letter to an Italian newspaper the group said it wanted to target "the apparatus of control that is repressive and leading the democratic show that is the new European order".
EC chief Romano Prodi narrowly escaped a bomb attack on Sunday
A letter bomb has been delivered to the headquarters of Eurojust, the EU agency co-ordinating the fight against crime. The device, which did not explode, was the fourth letter bomb delivered to a European figure in the past three days.
European Commission President Romano Prodi escaped unhurt when the first such device exploded at his home in the Italian city of Bologna on Sunday.
Authorities have said the two devices which arrived on Monday were both sent from Bologna.
European Central Bank head Jean-Claude Trichet and Europol were the targets on Monday.
The Hague prosecutor's office said the suspicious package was found at the offices of Eurojust on Tuesday morning.
A bomb squad was defusing the package, the prosecutor's office said in a statement.
The ECB's Jean-Claude Trichet received a bomb a day after Prodi
Eurojust is the EU body which helps co-ordinate investigations among European police forces.
Dutch prosecutors said they were investigating whether the same person was behind all the devices.
German police said they were focusing, with their Italian counterparts, on an anarchist group that has admitted carrying out two other explosions in rubbish bins near Mr Prodi's home in the past week.
Book mystery
Mr Prodi said the package he received at home contained a book wrapped in yellow paper and addressed to his wife, which been cut to insert explosive powder.
The book used was The Pleasure by Gabriele D'Annunzio, a famous early supporter of Fascism before his death in 1938.
Mr Prodi joked that the choice of book might have been ironic.
A previously unknown group known as the Informal Anarchic Federation claimed responsibility for two earlier rubbish bin attacks near Mr Prodi's home in which no-one was hurt.
In a letter to an Italian newspaper the group said it wanted to target "the apparatus of control that is repressive and leading the democratic show that is the new European order".
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