Envelopes with lettering, offensive, and senders of false from Bologna to Aosta NEWS Valle d’aosta

Envelopes with writing offensive and senders fake from Bologna to Aosta
20:03 – 26/10/2016

(LOOP) – AOSTA, 26 OCT – at Least eight envelopes sent to as many branch offices of Equitalia and containing a powder suspected. The alarm ‘terrorism’ is taken in the morning of Wednesday, in Milan, Turin, Bologna, Aosta, Biella, Savona, Verbania, Cuneo: a little after 10, the employees of the collection company is they have opened the correspondence and found the unknown substance.

To intervene for the first were the firefighters of the core Nbcr (Nuclear biological chemical and radiological), specialized in this kind of interventions. The offices were sealed and employees and customers were placed in isolation. Someone has also been conducted in the emergency room as a precaution and spent the afternoon at the ‘observation’. To analyze the contents of the envelopes – a powder yellowish, very fine, similar to talcum powder – will be the experimental zooprophylactic Institute of Piemonte, Liguria and Valle d’aosta and other specialized laboratories. The results of the examinations we will know in a couple of days.

And was immediately activated as the task force for the fight against bioterrorism,which will examine the samples in the search for any traces of anthrax, plague, brucellosis, and tularemia, which are the main agents of contamination. “This kind of disease – they know the technical of animal husbandry – spread quickly among the people: the first symptoms may appear already after one hour from the inhalation of the spores of the bacterium and have a high rate of mortality”.

persons subject to the appropriate prophylaxis (administration of antibiotics) – both employees of Equitalia who have handled the envelopes and all those who were in the offices – are fifty and have so far not shown signs of infection.

inside The envelope were found A4 sheets of paper with written offensive of various kinds addressed to the billing company. The test indicated also the names of the senders, immediately bogus results. Of the investigations deal with the police and the carabinieri, who are considering all the hypothesis. So far there have been no claims. The investigators – according to what is learned, according to the track of the anarchist, or the action of some group of far-right, always in the front line against the collection company.

“I Express the most heartfelt solidarity to the colleagues of the victims of serious acts with which it tried to intimidate the work and professionalism of all the men and women in the Group who every day are called to a role, delicate, complex and vital as the collection,” he writes in a message to employees, the managing director of Equitalia spa), Ernesto Maria Ruffini. (ANSA).