{"id":9887,"date":"2011-12-09T19:09:20","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T19:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/12\/rome-bomb-injures-tax-office-boss\/"},"modified":"2011-12-09T19:09:20","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T19:09:20","slug":"rome-bomb-injures-tax-office-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/09\/rome-bomb-injures-tax-office-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"Rome bomb injures tax office boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span>9 December 2011<\/span> <span>Last updated at<\/span> <span>19:09 GMT<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/57242000\/jpg\/_57242782_013491608-1.jpg\" width=\"304\" height=\"171\" alt=\"Police outside offices of Equitalia, Rome\" \/><span>Equitalia has become widely unpopular among Italians, correspondents say<\/span><\/div>\n<p>A parcel bomb has exploded at a tax collection office in the Italian capital Rome, injuring the director.<\/p>\n<p>Officials at the Equitalia agency said the blast shattered a glass desktop, causing hand and eye injuries to director Marco Cuccagna.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the package also contained a leaflet signed by the Italian anarchist group FAI.<\/p>\n<p>The FAI has said it sent a letter bomb on Wednesday to the headquarters of Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt, Germany.<\/p>\n<p>The Frankfurt bomb, addressed to chief executive Josef Ackermann, was intercepted and made safe, but a letter from the FAI found with the device promised three bomb attacks.<\/p>\n<p>A hospital doctor said surgeons had managed to save Mr Cuccagna&#8217;s sight after removing shards of glass from both eyes. They were still attending to his hand injury, the doctor said.<\/p>\n<p><span>&#8216;Evil act&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Equitalia official Angelo Coco told Ansa news agency: &#8220;We believe Equitalia has been the victim recently of a denigration and disinformation campaign.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Correspondents say Equitalia has become widely unpopular in a country where tax evasion is commonplace, but has also been accused of making mistakes with regular taxpayers.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Mario Monti, whose government is proposing a series of painful tax increases and pension reforms to tackle a debt crisis, defended the activities of Equitalia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Equitalia has always carried out and is continuing to carry out its duty in full respect of the law,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is essential for the functioning of the state, without which it would be impossible to provide services to citizens,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Rome Mayor Gianni Alemmano called the bombing &#8220;an evil, vile act&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>A police official said the bomb &#8211; in a yellow padded envelope &#8211; included a claim from the FAI &#8220;very similar&#8221; to that in the Deutsche Bank letter bomb, AP news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>The Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI) said it sent the letter bomb to Mr Ackermann.<\/p>\n<p>German police said the group had referred to &#8220;three explosions against banks, bankers, ticks and bloodsuckers&#8221; in a note inside the package.<\/p>\n<p>The FAI has carried out a string of attacks on European institutions, including parcel bombs that exploded at the Swiss and Chilean embassies in Rome in 2010, badly wounding the two people who opened them. A third bomb sent to the Greek Embassy four days later was defused.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 9 December 2011 Last updated at 19:09 GMT Equitalia has become widely unpopular among Italians, correspondents say A parcel bomb has exploded at a tax collection office in the Italian capital Rome, injuring the director. Officials at the Equitalia agency said the blast shattered a glass desktop, causing hand and eye injuries to director Marco Cuccagna. Police said the package also contained a leaflet signed by the Italian anarchist group FAI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rome bomb injures tax office boss - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/09\/rome-bomb-injures-tax-office-boss\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Rome bomb injures tax office boss - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"9 December 2011 Last updated at 19:09 GMT Equitalia has become widely unpopular among Italians, correspondents say A parcel bomb has exploded at a tax collection office in the Italian capital Rome, injuring the director. 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