Italian 'Unabomber' uses child's chocolate egg to hide explosive

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Independent
By Peter Popham in Rome
27 January 2005


A mysterious crank with advanced skills in miniature bombmaking, whose devices have several times come close to killing people, has struck again. In Italy they call him "Unabomber", and his stamping ground is the north-east.

He has yet to prove as dangerous as Ted Kaczynski, the murderous American mail bomber who was tracked down after a 17-year hunt and is serving four life sentences. But he is proving no less elusive than that Harvard-educated loner.

After a 10-year police hunt in the cities of Venice, Treviso, Udine and Pordenone, detectives are no closer to identifying the maniac. They assume it is a man but they cannot even be sure of that. And he continues to menace the region. Yesterday he was back, after an absence of nearly two years.

Between 9am and 9.30am, a group of schoolchildren in the town of Treviso were walking between their school and the town's theatre where they were to enjoy a play. One of them spotted the oval yellow container of a Kinder Surprise sitting on a low wall. The Surprise, as most children know, is a hollow chocolate egg, inside which there is a yellow plastic container holding a small gift. In this case, the chocolate egg was missing.

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he began installing tiny bombs in supermarket products. In November of that year, a tube of tomato puree exploded in a kitchen when the woman who had bought it opened it.

A suspiciously heavy tube of mayonnaise was opened by carabinieri and found to be packed with explosive. A candle went off the next year, then a jar of Nutella, and the bombings took an evil new turn in September 2002, when a tube of soap bubbles exploded in the hands of a child.

Further bombs have detonated in a church confessional, the cistern of a public toilet and a child's felt-tip pen. In the latter case the victim, a young girl, was lucky not to lose a hand and an eye.