13/12/2011 10:50
Letter containing a bullet sent to Rome Mayor Gianni Aleman
Italy's Justice Minister Paola Severino has been sent a letter containing a bullet and a threatening message, her spokesman said on Monday, days after a mail bomb exploded at a tax collection office in Rome, injuring an official.
Two bullets and a message were also sent in a separate package to Rome Mayor Gianni Alemanno, officials said.
Police anti-sabotage specialists found the two almost identical envelopes at a mail sorting office before they arrived at their destinations, the Reuters reports.
Italian police stepped up their monitoring of mail after an Italian anarchist group mailed two letter bombs last week. One of the packages exploded and wounded a senior Italian tax official on Friday. The other letter bomb was sent to Deutsche Bank chief executive Josef Ackermann, but security personnel at the German lender's Frankfurt headquarters intercepted the device before it could detonate, the Voice of America says.