Unrest in Italy
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) ROME, February 5. Italy’s Centre-Left Government faces mounting threats to ’public order throughout the country, after a spate of bombings; bitter battles between students and police, and political violence in the south. The latest outbreak of political terrorism—in which one man died and 13 were injured, in the southern city of Catanzaro last night—shocked Italians and caused fighting in Parliament between Left-wing and Right-wing deputies. It was the latest of the almost daily acts of violence in Italian universities, in factories, and in the streets.
Police said that unknown men hurled three handgrenades into a crowd of several thousand Left-wing demonstrators marching through the streets of Catanzaro. The march was in protest against a dynamite blast which had earlier damaged the offices of the regional government in Catanzaro. The blasts brought immediate repercussions in Rome; Communist Deputies in the Lower House of Parliament accused members of the neo-Fascist Italian Social Movement in Catanzaro of having thrown the bombs. (Background to Rightwing extremism in Italy: Page 7.)
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32524, 6 February 1971, Page 15
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