According to recent reports, a small homemade bomb exploded outside the offices of Italy’s ruling center-left Democratic Party in Florence early on Tuesday.
Police and firefighters rushed to the spot after they were alerted by local residents of explosions and fire around 04:00 local time (0200 GMT) near the PD offices. An investigation has been opened over the attack.
According to first findings, the small explosive device was made with three gas cans dipped in flammable liquid, all placed in a plastic container. The author of the attack climbed over a gate to enter the palace’s courtyard.
The blast came days after the PD of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, who used to be the mayor of Florence, achieved an extraordinary result in the European elections, taking 40.8 percent of the vote, the best showing by a party in a national election since 1958.
The victory was seen as a mandate for Renzi, whose premiership started in February not through a popular vote but as the third consecutive government that has come to power through political deals since Silvio Berlusconi resigned at the end of 2011 amid spiraling debt crisis.
But a series of recent corruption scandals involving politicians of all colors linked to contract rigging at the 2015 world exposition in Milan and to a the flood-protection system in Venice has fueled discontent among Italians who are struggling to recover from the longest postwar economic recession.
“The device may be linked to the many social tensions that are currently animating Italy,” a journalist of left-wing newspaper l’Unita and frequent political analyst, Claudia Fusani, told Rai state television commenting on the attack.
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