German Police Disarms Bomb Sent to Chancellor Merkel
German police took in a bomb that was sent to the workstation of Chancellor Angela Merkel from Greece on Tuesday just a few hours after other bombs blasted at the vicinities of foreign embassies in Athens. An aircraft from Athens with a suspicious package in it which was supposed to be sent to Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi suddenly landed in Italy on the same day.
The police defused the bomb that was sent to Ms. Merkel, who was fortunately out of
the office at the moment. No casualties have been recorded as of yet.
The authorities claim there seems to be no connection between the packages from
Greece and the parcels in a plane from Yemen headed to U.S. last week. European and
U.S. investigators suspect the bombs from Yemen came from al Qaeda linkages.
The said aircraft landed in a rush in Bologna, Italy when the Greek authorities found
out about the package to be sent to Mr. Berlusconi, the Associated Press reported. The
package allegedly emitted a small flame when bomb experts looked inside it. The police
stated it could be akin to the one sent to Ms. Merkel.
The discoveries and the detonation that followed them seem to show an implication
of the growing violence of Greek private armed groups. These groups are up against
the government’s rigid policies administered by the European Union and International
Monetary Fund.
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Posted by Joseph Stevenson
on Nov 4 2010. Filed under Featured News, world news.
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