Excitement in the Italian capital: Before the start of the group game between the Squadra Azzurra and Switzerland, there is a bomb alarm. The goal is also already known.
Actually, this Wednesday in Rome should only be about football. To the second European Championship group game of Italy against Switzerland. About goals and points. But things turned out very differently in the Italian capital.
Because in front of the party between the Squadra Azzurra and the Confederates, there was an alarm in Rome about a car bomb – and only a few kilometers from the Stadio Olimpico. This is reported by the newspaper “Corriere dello Sport”. Accordingly, the police had to remove an explosive device from a vehicle near Piazza Mancini in the Prati district.
Several streets had to be blocked during the operation. The Rome police had been informed about a car with “suspicious wires” at around 5:40 pm. Then the mission began. An object filled with gunpowder was found that could have exploded. Fortunately there was no detonation, the investigation is ongoing.
The target of the potential attack is already known: The car belonged to the politician Marco Doria, chairman of the committee for the restoration of parks and historic villas in the city. “This is very serious news. I express my unreserved solidarity with Marco Doria,” tweeted Rome’s mayor Virginia Raggi.
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