| Italian police have arrested five suspected militant anarchists they believe were part of a group that sent letter bombs to top European Union officials. In an overnight swoop, police near the central Italian town of Perugia seized the five they said were members of a group called “Coop/Fai”, an acronym that stands for “Against all political order/Informal anarchic federation”. “The investigation has led to the dismantling of an anarcho-insurrectionalist cell,” the police said on Tuesday in a statement. It described Coop/Fai as a group dedicated to “terrorism and the subversion of democratic order”. Active since 2003, the group claimed responsibility for letter bombs sent to Prime Minister Romano Prodi, then president of the European Commission, to the president of the European Central Bank and other European Union institutions. |