Italian nuclear power firm boss wounded in Genoa shooting:
Roberto Adinolfi, chief executive of Ansaldo Nucleare, was shot in the leg outside his house by gunmen on a motorcycle
The head of a nuclear power company has been shot in the leg by gunmen in northern Italy, police said.
Roberto Adinolfi, the chief executive of Ansaldo Nucleare, a company linked to Italian defence conglomerate Finmeccanica, was shot in the street outside his house in Genoa on Monday.
A source told Reuters two people on a motorbike wearing helmets fired three shots, hitting Adinolfi in the leg. The bullet fractured his right knee but he was not in a serious condition, the source said.
Shooting people in the legs was a trademark practice by the Red Brigades, a leftwing guerrilla group that carried out a campaign of murder and kidnapping aimed at destabilising Italy in the 1970s and 1980s.
The source said magistrates were considering whether anarchists might have been responsible for the attack.
Politicians from all sides were quick to condemn the shooting, some of them blaming a spreading "climate of hatred" in the recession-hit country.
"We hope investigators can find as quickly as possible those responsible for an act that brings us back to a very sad chapter of Italian history," said Lorenzo Cesa of the centrist UDC party.
Finmeccanica controls Ansaldo Energia, the parent of Ansaldo Nucleare. The Genoa attack would be "extremely serious" if it was linked to political and social frictions, said the chief financial officer of Finmeccanica, Alessandro Pansa.
Austerity measures by the Italian government to control the country's huge public debt have caused mounting resentment, although protests have generally been peaceful and there have been no real signs of organised political violence.
However, a string of suicides, notably among businessmen suffering financial problems, has underlined the human cost of the crisis. Last week, a 54-year-old man took a hostage in the offices of tax agency Equitalia in an act of desperation although the incident ended without violence.
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Roberto Adinolfi, chief executive of Ansaldo Nucleare, was shot in the leg outside his house by gunmen on a motorcycle
The head of a nuclear power company has been shot in the leg by gunmen in northern Italy, police said.
Roberto Adinolfi, the chief executive of Ansaldo Nucleare, a company linked to Italian defence conglomerate Finmeccanica, was shot in the street outside his house in Genoa on Monday.
A source told Reuters two people on a motorbike wearing helmets fired three shots, hitting Adinolfi in the leg. The bullet fractured his right knee but he was not in a serious condition, the source said.
Shooting people in the legs was a trademark practice by the Red Brigades, a leftwing guerrilla group that carried out a campaign of murder and kidnapping aimed at destabilising Italy in the 1970s and 1980s.
The source said magistrates were considering whether anarchists might have been responsible for the attack.
Politicians from all sides were quick to condemn the shooting, some of them blaming a spreading "climate of hatred" in the recession-hit country.
"We hope investigators can find as quickly as possible those responsible for an act that brings us back to a very sad chapter of Italian history," said Lorenzo Cesa of the centrist UDC party.
Finmeccanica controls Ansaldo Energia, the parent of Ansaldo Nucleare. The Genoa attack would be "extremely serious" if it was linked to political and social frictions, said the chief financial officer of Finmeccanica, Alessandro Pansa.
Austerity measures by the Italian government to control the country's huge public debt have caused mounting resentment, although protests have generally been peaceful and there have been no real signs of organised political violence.
However, a string of suicides, notably among businessmen suffering financial problems, has underlined the human cost of the crisis. Last week, a 54-year-old man took a hostage in the offices of tax agency Equitalia in an act of desperation although the incident ended without violence.
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