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May 20th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Ms Bassi, a fashion student who hoped to work in Milan, had travelled into the
school by bus that morning from her home in the nearby town of Mesagne. Her
friend, Veronica Capodieci, was also injured and is now fighting for her
life.
“They are beasts, whoever did this,” said one of Ms Bassi’s aunts. “Melissa’s
parents have lost the only thing they ever had. What wrong did these kids
ever do?”
The attack targeted the Morvillo-Falcone vocational institute, which is named
after an anti-Mafia prosecutor, Giovanni Falcone, and his wife, Francesca
Morvillo, a judge, who were blown up by Sicily’s Cosa Nostra Mafia almost
exactly 20 years near Palermo airport.
The fact that the bomb went off just days before the 20th anniversary of the
assassinations, on Wednesday, may have been a coincidence, given that Cosa
Nostra and Sacra Corona Unita are quite separate Mafia groups.
Sacra Corona Unita, based in the region of Puglia, the heel of the Italian
boot, is the least known of Italy’s four Mafia groups.
It was founded in the 1970s and has made huge profits from gun-running,
smuggling and extortion, although its power is believed to have waned in
recent years as a result of police crackdowns.
But it has ready access to explosives through its links with organised crime
in the Balkans, just across the Adriatic.
While the Italian government cautioned against jumping to conclusions about
who might be behind the attack, local officials had little doubt, blaming it
on the group and saying it may have been a reprisal for recent police
operations.
“It was a Mafia attack,” said Nicola Fratoianni, a regional official. “A bomb
placed in front of a school bearing the Falcone name is a clear message from
the clans — a reprisal to recent police operations.”
Ten days ago police conducted a raid in which they arrested 16 alleged members
of Sacra Corona Unita, charging them with extortion, illegal weapons
ownership and Mafia association.
Many of the pupils at the school, including the teenager who was killed, were
from the nearby town of Mesagne, one of the strongholds of the Mafia group.
The attack may also have been timed to coincide with an anti-Mafia procession
that was due to have been held in Brindisi on Saturday.
According to another theory being pursued by police, it may have been
connected to a failed attempt by godfathers a few days ago to blow up the
head of an anti-Mafia association in Mesagne with a car bomb.
“We have seen a resumption of criminal Mafia activity in and around Brindisi
recently after leaders of Sacra Corona Unita were released from jail,” said
Alfredo Mantovano, an MP from the conservative People of Freedom party of
Silvio Berlusconi, the former prime minister.
Prosecutors pointed out, however, that Mafia gangsters normally carry out
attacks against rival mobsters, prosecutors, police and courthouses, and
that it was unusual for them to hit such a soft “civilian” target.
The bombing was “an anomaly”, said Annamaria Cancellieri, the interior
minister. “We don’t yet have elements to suggest this was a Mafia attack, we
need to be cautious. But it is striking that the bomb went off in front of a
school with the name Falcone.”
The bomb, believed to have been planted on a low wall in front of the school,
went off around 7.50am local time, when students were arriving for Saturday
morning lessons.
The force of the explosion blew out the windows of surrounding buildings and
left several victims severely burnt. Surgeons said one teenage girl might
lose both her legs.
The casualties could have been far worse had the bomb detonated a little
later, when the majority of students arrived at the school, said Mr
Fratoianni.
“I was opening the window and the blast wave hit me. I saw kids on the ground.
All blackened. Their books on fire. It was terrifying,” said an employee at
the prosecutor’s office next to the school.
The last major bomb attack by the Mafia was in Florence in 1993, when a
powerful car bomb was detonated behind the Uffizi Gallery, killing five
people and wounding more than 20 others, and destroying or damaging dozens
of works in the gallery’s art collection.
Mr Monti, appointed as the head of an unelected government of technocrats in
November, is pushing through a sweeping programme of austerity measures,
including spending cuts and tax increases, which have prompted a resurgence
of the political extremism which struck Italy in the seventies and eighties.
There have been bomb threats against tax offices and an attack on the head of
a nuclear engineering company owned by defence technology group
Finmeccanica, who was shot in the leg by an anarchist group.
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