Italy arrests seven over anarchist network linked to Winter Olympics rail sabotage
- Italian police arrested seven people accused of belonging to an anarchist militant network that carried out sabotage on a high-speed railway line during the Winter Olympics in Feb.
- Sabotage using improvised explosive devices on the Rome-Florence and Rome-Naples lines caused infrastructure damage estimated at €455,000 , leading to train delays during the Milan-Cortina Games.
- In a statement on Tuesday, police reported a judge ordered five suspects held in prison and two placed under house arrest, with charges including terrorist association and subversion of the democratic order.
- Prosecutors issued search warrants across Bologna, Milan, and Naples, where the group maintained cells linked to Feb attacks and sabotage of the Transalpine Pipeline.
- The anarchist network explicitly timed attacks to coincide with the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, aiming to promote anti-militarist views through violent infrastructure disruption.
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There were also the television studios where La7's programs were recorded among the possible objectives in the viewfinder of the seven anarchists arrested this morning by Digos of Rome. The investigations of the Police of Prevention, coordinated by the Public Prosecutor's Office of Rome, have in fact established that the cell, after having planned its activities in a farmhouse near Vicovaro (Rome), has been responsible for the action carried out…
According to information so far, the arrested were based in Rome and also operated in Milan and Naples.
Italian police have arrested seven people for sabotaging the railway during the Winter Olympics in February. They are accused, among other things, of membership in an anarchist militant group and undermining the democratic order. Five suspects are in pre-trial detention, and two have been placed under house arrest. They carried out an attack on a high-speed line between Rome and Florence on February 14, police wrote in a statement. The attack ca…
The seven arrested are accused of association for the purposes of terrorism or of the exversion of the democratic order. They wanted to "constrict the State to do the reckoning" Plantodosis: "A very hard blow to the insurrectionalist network." The League: "The proof that Salvini was right"
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