A TOP ITALIAN ECONOMIC ADVISER WAS GUNNED DOWN TUESDAY WHILE RIDING HO...

World | March 20, 2002, Wednesday // 00:00

A top Italian economic adviser was gunned down Tuesday while riding home on his bicycle in a shooting the government blamed on domestic terrorism. Marco Biagi, 52, a professor and consultant to Italian Minister of Labor Roberto Maroni, was shot to death by two gunmen just outside his home in Bologna, authorities said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but authorities drew parallels to the 1999 slaying of Massimo D'Antona, a top Labor Ministry adviser. D'Antona was killed by the Red Brigades, a left-wing terrorist group that carried out a wave of bloody attacks in the 1970s.

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