A letter purporting to be from Italy’s radical left-wing Red Brigades denies that the group, responsible for numerous attacks in the 1970s, planted a bomb that killed a schoolgirl in Brindisi last week, a news agency said.
«Our targets certainly are not students and workers,» read the letter, which ANSA said it had received.
«Fighters target others: Bosses, the governing class, bankers and prostitutes of the state.»
ANSA said the letter appeared to have been signed by a Red Brigades cell and contained the group’s five-pointed star logo, but that authorities had not verified its authenticity.
The Red Brigades were responsible for numerous attacks in the 1970s, including the kidnapping and murder of former Christian Democrat prime minister Aldo Moro in 1978.
The group has been revived several times, and murdered government labour adviser Marco Biagi in 2002.
Public frustration is running high in Italy with a programme of spending cuts and labour and pension reforms aimed at averting a debt crisis and stimulating growth.
President Giorgio Napolitano warned on Wednesday that Italy risked falling back into the kind of political violence that scarred it during the 1970s.
Investigators have yet to determine who was responsible for Saturday’s bombing outside a school in Brindisi, in which a 16-year-old girl was killed and 10 other people were injured.
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