Suspicious Package Found in Bulgaria’s Embassy to Rome

Politics » DIPLOMACY | December 28, 2010, Tuesday // 18:19
Bulgaria: Suspicious Package Found in Bulgaria’s Embassy to Rome Italian police officers seen at the Chilean Embassy. Two people were injured in separate, but similar, bomb blasts at the Swiss and Chilean embassies in Rome last week. Photo by BGNES

A suspicious package has been received in the Bulgarian Embassy to Rome, but it turned out that it contained a painting, the Bulgarian National Radio reported.

The Italian police have announced that suspicious packages are being thoroughly examined by bomb squads after two blasts from packages, sent last week to the Embassies of Switzerland and Chile in Rome, marred the Christmas atmosphere in Italy, sending flashback of the times of anarchist terror in the country.

On Monday, suspicious packages, believed to contain explosives, were found in Finland’s Embassy to Vatican and in Albania’s Embassy to Rome.

Earlier on Monday, Italian police, bomb squads and firefighters deactivated a bomb located inside a package shipped to the Embassy of Greece in Rome.

Police believe the attackers were inspired by similar recent incidents in the Greek capital Athens.

Later on Monday, suspicious packages were found at the Embassies of Denmark, Morocco and Monaco. According the Italian authorities, the package at the Monaco Embassy only contained an unused notebook.

There is an increased police control in all Embassies in Rome.

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