An offshoot of the Red Brigades guerrilla group killed a top adviser to the Italian government, using the same gun as in a 1999 political assassination, Interior Minister Claudio Scajola said. Marco Biagi, the co-author of controversial labor reforms that have prompted Italy's major unions to call a general strike, was shot dead on Tuesday night by two men on a motorcycle outside his home in Bologna. Police tests revealed that the gun used in the attack was identical to the one used to murder another Labour Ministry aide, Massimo D'Antona, in a 1999 killing carried out by a group inspired by the Red Brigades, the Red Brigades for the Building of the Fighting Communist Party.
Yep, they sure do miss the good old days. |