Killer blows up a school! (Italy)

Biggins

A sad day for Italy.

It appears that they have decided to bomb a school in Italy.
One named after a person that fought against them for years.
In the middle getting the flak, was the school kids that were attending there.

A bomb exploded outside a school in southern Italy on Saturday, killing a teenage girl and wounding 10 others, in an attack that raised fears Italy could again fall victim to violence by Mafia and other armed groups that have shaken the country in the past.

Police said the blast erupted from explosives placed inside a trash Dumpster adjacent to the school—a vocational institution in the southern port city of Brindisi that is named after a fallen anti-Mafia prosecutor and his wife.

The explosion occurred at the start of the school day, jolting a group of girls entering the school, police said. Sixteen-year-old Melissa Basso died from wounds sustained in the blast. Italian TV was flooded with images of pavement scorched by the explosion and strewn with textbooks and backpacks. Many schools in Italy are open on Saturdays.

Financial Times report: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303448404577413644027072370.html?mod=WSJEurope_hpp_LEFTTopStories

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Simply unreal.
No matter what a persons gripe is, to pick on innocents, adults or kids, is just the actions of the lowest of the low.

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EDIT:
Nodin rightly points out in post four that it might not be the mafia.
Thread title change to reflect this. Cheers Nodin.

hairyprincess

Unfortunately you don't have to go as far as Italy to witness the mass murders of innocent people; it's been happening in our own country for years.

RIP to the girl who died. An absolutely senseless loss

The King of Moo

Such a horrible tragedy. I genuinely can't comprehend how someone could do such a thing, to target children.

Hopefully this might at least lead to outrage against the Mafia and see some concrete action against them. They're still much more powerful in the south of Italy especially than many people realise.

Nodin

Conclusions - best not to jump to them.

The bomb attack that killed a teenage girl and injured 10 others in the southern Italian town of Brindisi was probably the work of an individual with no links to the mafia, a senior official has said.
"It seems to be the work of a single person," Marco Dinapoli, Brindisi's chief prosecutor, who is leading the investigation, told reporters on Sunday, saying that a suspect had already been identified.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/20/italy-bombing-not-linked-mafia

Biggins

If not linked to the Maifa, I stand rightly corrected.
I wish I was wrong about the sad killing of a child.

AnonoBoy

I know the mafia are y'know d*cks and all but was bombing schools ever in their modus operandi?

counterlock

AnonoBoy wrote: »

I know the mafia are y'know d*cks and all but was bombing schools ever in their modus operandi?

There was an anti mafia march planned in the town the same day, it was done to disrupt that

Defiler Of The Coffin

I'm disgusted. Pointless in the extreme

Nodin

AnonoBoy wrote: »

I know the mafia are y'know d*cks and all but was bombing schools ever in their modus operandi?

Not really. Nothing much to do with the morality, its just if you want to "send a message" theres a number of far better ways of doing it. Its thus unlikely to be them, or any of the other similar organisations. I'd be very, very suprised if it was, at any rate.

MadYaker

The mafia are only interested in making money. I doubt blowing up a school is good for business.

Biggins

MadYaker wrote: »

The mafia are only interested in making money. I doubt blowing up a school is good for business.

As Nodin rightly indicated, it might not have been now, the Mafia.

On the point that it might not be good for business though, I suspect that any downfall of the government or wrecking of parts of the economy in that country, that might give them advantage and/or opportunity to regain their bad insidious status that they once had at their height of corruption and power.

Posy

Mafia or not, it is a pointless and sad killing.