A 37-year-old Italian terrorist, Francesco Fiorina, suspected of having organized the bombing of the Milan Jewish community center on the night of September 22, 1982, has been arrested in Milan. The attack on the synagogue, which destroyed its main entrance, occurred nine days before the attack on Roma’s main synagogue during Sabbath and Simcha Torah services in which a two-year-old child was killed and 37 people were wounded.
Firorina is also wanted on 10 other charges, including two homicides, a series of burglaries, a bank robbery and the planting of an explosive charge at a’prison during which one man was killed and four terrorist prisoners escaped. The terrorist leader of the ultra-leftist “COLP” organization was captured yesterday during a shoot-out with police in which the police killed Antonio Gaetano, the driver of the car in which Fiorina was riding. An unidentified woman in the car escaped.
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