Attacks on Italian diplomats in Barcelona and Berlin: «Strengthened security». Meloni: “We are following with concern” – Corriere.it

Two attacks hit Italian diplomatic representatives yesterday in Barcelona and Berlin. This is what a press release from the Farnesina reports. “Unknown persons have broken the window of the building where the consulate general is located in Barcelona, ​​smearing a wall of the entrance to the building”. And also yesterday, in Berlin, “the car with the diplomatic license plate of a diplomatic official in service at the Italian embassy was also set on fire”.
The local police forces “carried out the necessary scientific and investigative surveys. In both cases, fortunately, no injuries were reported,” the Farnesina continues. Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani “personally and immediately contacted the embassy in Berlin and the consulate in Barcelona to express his solidarity and asked that full light be shed as soon as possible on the dynamics of these criminal acts”. The ministry then ordered “the immediate launch of the procedures for verifying and strengthening the diplomatic offices and the personnel involved”. As regards the action in Spain, the Farnesina informs that the 5 alleged perpetrators have already been arrested.

For both attacks, intelligence sources are following the anarchist trail to trace those responsible. This escalation is in fact considered to be connected with the case of Alfredo Cospito, the anarchist locked up in the prison of Sassari and on hunger strike for two months to protest against the harsh prison regime (41 bis)
to which it is subjected. Sentenced to 12 years and 3 months for attacks with terrorist or subversive purposes (including the killing of the managing director of Ansaldo Nucleare, Roberto Adinolfi, in 2012 in Genoa) and other crimes, the anarchist leader Cospito must also serve definitively another penalty for further terrorist acts (such as sending explosive devices and packets against politicians, journalists and the forces of order) and for the crime of political massacre. The latter conviction is related to the bomb attack with the two bombs planted at the Carabinieri barracks in Fossano, in the province of Cuneo, in 2006, together with his partner Anna Beniamino.

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For some time now, anarchists have raised the bar: we are no longer dealing with demonstrative acts, but of street mobilizations and more and more serious acts of bombing.
What is particularly worrying is the arson attack on the car of the diplomat on duty at the Berlin embassy. The same modus operandi implemented in the attack in Athens against the diplomat Susanna Schlein (sister of the Pd deputy Elly), whose car had been burned.

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni sent «its solidarity and that of the Italian government to the First Counselor of the Italian Embassy in Berlin, Luigi Esterofor the attack that set fire to his car in
German capital”. And then: «To this episode is added the violation of our general consulate in Barcelona with acts of vandalism. The government is following these new cases of violence against our officials and diplomatic missions with concern and attention”.

«The repeated attacks on Italian diplomatic offices are of great concern – comments the president of the Senate Ignazio La Russa —. It is necessary and urgent to understand what the reasons are and if there is a single direction behind these criminal acts. My sincere closeness to the staff of our embassies”. Also the president of the Chamber Lorenzo Fontana hopes “that the matrix of these new cases of violence against our officials and our diplomatic representations be shed as soon as possible”.