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World | December 27, 2010, Monday // 13:42
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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
Suspicious packages have been found Monday at the Greek and Venezuelan Embassies in Rome, according to Italian press.
Police, bomb squads and firefighters had arrived at the scene and were able to deactivate a bomb located inside the package shipped to the Embassy of Greece; the package for the Embassy of Venezuela did not contain explosives.
Two blasts from packages, sent last week to the Embassies of Switzerland and Chile in Rome, marred the Christmas atmosphere in Italy, sending flashbacks of the times of anarchist terror in the country.
The local "Lambros Fountas Cellof the Informal Federation of Anarchy (FAI)" had claimed responsibilities for the last week attacks. Lambros Fountas was a Greek anarchist killed in a shoot-out with Athens police in March 2010.
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.
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