ITALY: Police have arrested a 68 year-old man in connection to a school bombing that killed one student and wounded ten in southern Italy

Record ID: 357514

  • Title: ITALY: Police have arrested a 68 year-old man in connection to a school bombing that killed one student and wounded ten in southern Italy
  • Date: 8th June 2012
  • Summary: ROME, ITALY (JUNE 7, 2012) (REUTERS) NEWSPAPERS HEADLINES IL MESSAGGERO NEWSPAPER WITH HEADLINE READING (Italian): 'The Bomb Man Has been Caught' LA REPUBBLICA DAILY HEADLINE READING (Italian): 'Brindisi's Killer Caught' AND '(Melissa's) Father: Now tell me why"
  • Embargoed: 23rd June 2012 13:00
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  • Location: Italy
  • Country: Italy
  • Topics: Crime
  • Reuters ID: LVA8K4WZ5VFEKXYFLX6WM814IKUN
  • Story Text: Italian media reported on Thursday (June 7) that police took into custody a 68 year-old man on Wednesday for last month's bombing in front of a school that killed a 16 year-old girl and wounded 10 others.
    After several hours of questioning in the southern city of Lecce, the man allegedly confessed to building and planting the bomb, Italian media reported.
    The bomb attack on the Francesca Morvillo Falcone school, a vocational training institute named after the wife of a famed anti-mafia judge in the town of Brindisi, horrified Italy and sparked speculation it was the work of organised crime gangs.
    The investigation into the bombing took "an important and definitive breakthrough" on Wednesday, the head of the police force, Antonio Manganelli, said after news of a possible confession was reported.
    Investigators initially suggested a local mafia group was responsible for the May 19 bomb that was detonated in front of a school in Brindisi, a port city in southern Italy.
    The man being held, whose motive was described as a "personal" vendetta and not a terrorist act, is married and has two children, Italian media reported.
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