Italian police have defused a suspect package addressed to the Spanish airline Iberia at Rome's Fiumicino international airport. Police explosives experts were called in after the package raised the suspicions of staff at the airport's post office. This is the latest in a series of explosives devices aimed at Spanish targets, after two parcel bombs were sent last week to the airline at Milan's Malpensa airport and at its offices in Rome. In a possibly related development, Spanish police said on Thursday they had defused another bomb sent by mail from Milan, received at the Barcelona office of the Spanish newspaper El Pais. On Saturday, Italian police defused a bomb, consisting of powder in an envelope with a timing device attached, sent to Iberia's offices at Milan's Malpensa airport. On Friday, a bomb was found hidden in a book left at Iberia's Italian headquarters in Rome. The device was destroyed in a controlled explosion. Authorities said on Monday that all four bombs had been sent from Milan and that the package discovered on Monday was very similar to the others.
Spain's Interior Minister, Angel Acebes, said on Thursday that the package sent to El Pais was claimed by an unknown group, the Five Cs, opposed to capitalism, prisons and prison officers. News reports said that the same group signed the leaflet found with the letter-bomb at Milan airport on Saturday.
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