ITALY: TURIN MAYOR RECEIVES LETTER BOMB AGAINST IMMIGRANTS' CENTRES

Turin, Italy (AKI) - Turin mayor Sergio Chiamparino on Friday received a package bomb with a letter against detention centres for immigrants signed by an anarchist group. No one was injured as the mayor's office alerted the police upon receiving the suspected package and police defused the homemade bomb. Reports said the package included a copy of The Idiot by Fedor Mikhajlovic Dostoevskij and a letter in which anarchists calling themselves an 'Informal anarchist federation - Anarchic network of Tuscany' expressed "active and concrete solidarity for immigrants detained in CPTs [Italy's detention centres for immigrants]."

According to police the attack, the third in a week following letter bombs sent to a local paper and to a company carrying out construction work in a detention centre for immigrants in Turin, could be aimed at sparking protests by immigrants.