Death threat ‘not work of anarchist group’

A DEATH threat to Giuseppe Orsi, chairman and chief executive of Italian aerospace and defence firm Finmeccanica, was written by a “mythomaniac” and not by the far-left Red Brigades, a company source has said.

The message “Death to Orsi” and a five-pointed star, a Red Brigades symbol, was discovered this week written on the wall of an office at one of the state-owned conglomerate’s units, Ansaldo Energia, in Genoa.

Roberto Adinolfi, chief executive of Finmeccanica unit Ansaldo Nucleare, was shot in the leg on 7 May. An anarchist group called Informal Anarchist Federation claimed responsibility for the attack, and said it would strike again.

A Finmeccanica source said that following initial checks, investigators believed the pencil-written message at Ansaldo Energia “cannot be in any way linked to subversive circles but is an action of a mythomaniac”.

Italy is facing a resurgence of politically inspired violence driven by its economic crisis.

Security is to be reinforced at 14,000 locations, including offices of Finmeccanica.