Bomb left outside a School kills a girl and injures 7

[Reece]

19/05/2012 - Bomb explosion at School in Brindisi - Italy - First Amateur Pictures Video 2 Mafia suspected in Italy school blast

A bomb that killed a teenage girl outside a school in Brindisi on Saturday has been blamed on the mafia by local politicians and condemned as one of Italy's most barbaric acts of violence. Three gas cylinders connected to a detonator left on a low wall outside the school exploded at 7.50am, killing the 16-year-old and injuring up to 10 others, one seriously, as they arrived for lessons. The blast, which experts said was designed to kill, shattered windows in surrounding buildings and was heard across the southern Italian city. Mainly attended by girls, the school is named after Francesca Morvillo Falcone, wife of anti-mafia prosecutor Giovanni Falcone. Both were killed by a mafia bomb in Sicily on 23 May 1992, almost exactly 20 years ago, leading many to suspect a mafia role in the bombing, for which no one has yet claimed responsibility. An anti-mafia march was due to be held in Brindisi. "You can understand the symbolism of this," said Cosimo Consales, the mayor of the Puglian port town. "This was an attack by organised criminals." However, interior minister Anna Maria Cancellieri said the attack did not bear the hallmarks of a mafia attack, while Achille Serra, a former Italian police chief, said Italian mafia clans typically killed magistrates and police officers. Targeting schoolgirls, he said, was "unprecedented". But an assessor with the region of Puglia, Nicola Fratoianni, pointed the finger at Puglia's mafia, the Sacra Corona Unita, which has grown in the shadow of more notorious Italian mafias such as Sicily's Cosa Nostra, the Naples Camorra and the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta. Originally specialising in smuggling cigarettes from the Balkans, the Puglian mafia developed protection rackets in Puglia and built an arsenal of weapons thanks to ties with Balkan gangs during the 1990s, but was believed to have been weakened by a series of police operations.

What a fucked up world we live in.

[Mikal]

Shocking and sick, screw the c*nt that did it, he deserves to be starved and have his fingers burned off 1 by 1.

[JDC]

Mafiosi attacking government magistrates is understandable, but teenage schoolgirls?

What's next, daytime hits and drive-bys on toddlers?

[Oliver]

What kind of a soulless human being would bomb a SCHOOL?
I'd understand if one specific kid was targeted due to their dad being in a rival organization, but randomly bombing 8 kids?

[Mikal]

Mafiosi attacking government magistrates is understandable, but teenage schoolgirls?

What's next, daytime hits and drive-bys on toddlers?

Or elderly care homes. :roll:

What kind of a soulless human being would bomb a SCHOOL?
I'd understand if one specific kid was targeted due to their dad being in a rival organization, but randomly bombing 8 kids?

Must have been a mindless psycho, just think the little girl that he killed had a whole life ahead of her, and the others that were injured now have the picture of their young friend being blown up stuck in their heads.

[Dolfagr]

That doesn't make sense..why would mafia attack a school..I guess we can only wait until the whole story reviels itself.

[Dolfagr]

The school was named in honour of a judge who stood up against the mafia somewhen in the past or something like that I believe.

I feel you , but seems mafias in Italy don't have morals like the ones in the movies we see..lol

[JDC]

I feel you , but seems mafias in Italy don't have morals like the ones in the movies we see..lol

Many things happen in the movies that never happen in real life. In the movies, the mafias are as honorable just as the law enforcement are omnipresent and able to send a crack team of black-ops operatives anywhere in the globe within 2 hours.

[Mikal]

Many things happen in the movies that never happen in real life. In the movies, the mafias are as honorable just as the law enforcement are omnipresent and able to send a crack team of black-ops operatives anywhere in the globe within 2 hours.

Yes, the black ops surf ontop of a small rocket that launches them into space before they dive back down to where they want to go.