Letter with bullets sent to Italian PM

[ via The Times of India ] 17 Dec

Italian PM Mario Monti , politicians and newspaper editors have been sent letters containing bullets and threats over government austerity measures, police said on Friday. They said they had intercepted 10 envelopes at a postal sorting office in Catanzaro in Calabria. 

Each envelope contained a bullet and a letter signed by a group calling itself the Armed Proletarian Movement with insults and threats regarding austerity measures , a police spokesman said. Investigators said the group had been unknown previously. 

It may be added that Italy's government won a confidence vote in the lower house of parliament over a $43 billion austerity package. 

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