The Telegraph (via Yahoo) reports: "Anarchists blew themselves up when building bomb in Rome." From the article:
The bodies of an anarchist couple were found beneath the rubble of a cottage on the outskirts of Rome after they blew themselves up while making a bomb.
Police believed Alessandro Mercogliano, 53, and 36-year-old Sara Ardizzone were plotting an attack against a police station and Leonardo, a defence contractor, which made parts for F-35 jets.
Traces of ammonium nitrate, a chemical used to make explosives, were found in the debris of the abandoned building beside an ancient Roman aqueduct on Friday.
Police said the pair were supporters of Alfredo Cospito, the jailed figurehead of a loosely organised anarchist network called the Informal Anarchist Federation.
Cospito, 58, is serving a 20-year sentence for a series of parcel bombs and attacks targeting authorities. In 2012, he was sentenced to 10 years for kneecapping the head of the Italian nuclear power company Ansaldo Nucleare.
They were probably using gasoline. I wouldn't put it past them to have messed up the detonator, but using gas instead of diesel or oil seems to be the most common way to turn such a stable explosive into something nearly as dangerous to handle as nitroglycerin, and I've never met an intelligent anarchist.
ReplyDeleteI could see that: "It's all mixed up," said the man with relief as he leaned back and lit his cigarette....
DeleteI support Antifa playing with unstable chemicals.
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