A package exploded at the Swiss embassy in Rome on Thursday, Italy's foreign ministry said on Thursday and Ansa news agency reported that one person was seriously injured. (Reuters 1)
The man [an employee] was "seriously injured" on both his hands [from a parcel bomb blast, after opening it.] (AFP 1)
UPDATE: From AFP 2
Rome was on high alert on Christmas Eve after parcel bomb blasts left two staffers at the Chilean and Swiss embassies in the Italian capital badly injured in an attack claimed by anarchists.
The Chilean injured as he opened a package delivered to the embassy lost two fingers, hospital sources said. His right eye was also badly damaged by the blast and he had to have a metal bolt extracted from his chest.
The Swiss embassy worker was wounded to his left hand by a similar blast.
Both bombs were contained inside VHS video packages filled with gunpowder and metal fragments connected to a nine-volt battery and a light bulb filament, Italian newspapers reported, citing investigators.
"The targets were not chosen at random," Alfredo Mantovano, a junior interior minister, was quoted as saying by Il Giornale daily.
Mantovano said Switzerland was chosen because of the arrest of some Italian anarchists there and Chile because an anarchist died there in a bomb blast last year -- a death blamed by anarchist groups on Chilean authorities.
From Reuters 2
A Swiss man was seriously wounded and rushed to hospital. An employee at the Chilean embassy was less seriously hurt. A note was found stuck to his clothing, claiming responsibility for the attack on behalf of the FAI, or Informal Anarchist Federation.
"We have decided to make our voice heard with words and with facts, we will destroy the system of dominance, long live the FAI, long-live Anarchy," said the note, written in Italian, which was released in the evening by the police.
The note was signed by the "Lambros Fountas revolutionary cell" of the FAI, named for a Greek anarchist killed in a clash with Athens police in March. It also made reference to anarchist movements in Chile, Mexico, Spain and Argentina.
Source: AFP (1, 2), Reuters (1, 2)
Comments: Left-wing terrorists could be responsible, although it could also be that Islamic terrorists are targeting Switzerland for some reason or other. Islamic terrorists always have excuses. Many Muslims have a distorted view (WikiLeaked US' UK embassy cable) of the world and as a result suffer from delusions of persecution and react violently to imagined persecutors.
UPDATE: Anarchists should try to use non-violent democratic means to achieve their aims. The situation is not that bad to require the use of violence. Otherwise they are forcing their views on others and they would be no different from the domination that they condemn. They would just like be the Islamo-fascists.
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