-Caveat Lector- > --------------------------- > > Thursday, 21 March, 2002, 10:59 GMT > > Online Video Report: > http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/video/36469000/rm/_36469180_killings6_willey_vi. > ram > The BBC's David Willey : "The Red Brigades have been dormant for years" > > > Red Brigades admit killing > ================== > http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1885000/1885002.stm > Crowds gathered in Bologna to show their respects > > Italian police say they are treating as credible an internet document which > appears to be an admission by Red Brigades militants that they killed a > senior Italian government aide. > > "An armed nucleus of our organisation executed Marco Biagi" > Internet statement > > Marco Biagi, an adviser to the labour minister, was shot dead on Tuesday > outside his home in central Bologna by two men on a motorcycle. > > The 26-page statement says Mr Biagi, aged 52, was "executed" for his role in > drawing up labour reforms, which it described as "regulation of the > exploitation of salaried workers". > > A police official in Bologna said: "The language and contents of the > statement seem to prove its authenticity." > > The document was signed by the Red Brigades for the construction of a > Combatant Communist Party (BR-PCC), which police believe is the second > generation of the Red Brigades group, responsible for a wave of killings in > the 1970s and 1980s. > > It was posted on the website Caserta24ore, which describes itself as an > "independent territorial communications agency". > > The assassination has sent shockwaves through Italy and raised fears of a > resurgence of political violence by left-wing and right-wing extremists. > > Suspicion had already fallen on the Red Brigades, after evidence emerged > that the same gun might have been used to kill another ministry official, > Massimo d'Antona, three years ago. > > Labour controversy > > A symbol of the group was also found scratched into the wall of Mr Biagi's > house, and a man saying he represented the brigades called a Bologna > newspaper to claim responsibility. > > "Democracy is being blackmailed" > La Repubblica > > Police are trying to establish how long the scratched symbol had been there. > > Most of the leaders of the original Red Brigades - who, most notoriously, > killed former Prime Minister Aldo Moro in 1978 - were eventually caught and > sentenced to long prison terms. > > The Justice Ministry warned earlier this year that Italy could witness a > revival of politically-motivated violence, after a bomb exploded near the > Interior Ministry in Rome. > > "Democracy is being blackmailed," La Repubblica newspaper said on Thursday. > > The proposed reform of labour laws is highly controversial in Italy. Trade > unions are planning a general strike in April. > > Escort withdrawn > > They have rejected a call from Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to cancel > the strike, in the wake of the killing, but are planning a demonstration > against terrorism next Wednesday. > > "They have abandoned you" > Anonymous call to Biagi > > Mr Biagi will be given a state funeral at the weekend. > > It has emerged that he received a number of telephone threats after his > police escort was withdrawn last year. > > "They have abandoned you," one caller is alleged to have told him. > > Police hope the killers may have been caught on video as Mr Biagi arrived at > the city's railway station, and set off for home on his bicycle. > > The 26-page internet statement also justified the 11 September attacks > against the United States, saying they represented "a concrete act of > opposition to the imperialist strategy". > > --------------------------- > ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST > >
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