ROME —A bomb blast outside a high school in southern Italy that killed a 16-year-old student has revived dark memories of the ’70s and ’80s, when terrorists, anarchists and organized crime carried out dozens of bloody attacks across the country.
Investigators had no firm clue Sunday of who was behind the attack. There was no claim of responsibility a day after the crude device made up of gas cylinders exploded outside a mainly girls vocational school in the Adriatic port town of Brindisi.
The blast could be the work of an individual “angry with the world,” said the prosecutor heading the investigation, Marco Dinapoli. He indicated that a nearby closed-circuit security camera had captured images of the alleged attacker.
The Francesca Laura Morvillo Falcone vocational institute is named after a judge who was killed alongside her prosecutor husband, anti-Mafia hero Giovanni Falcone, in a highway bombing in Sicily, exactly 20 years ago, leading some to think the mob might be responsible.
