The Italian police defused Wednesday June 16 a bomb discovered in the car of a local politician, the mayor of Rome describing the incident as
"very serious"
.
"A bomb was found in the car of Marco Doria, chairman of the task force for the redevelopment of historic parks and villas in Rome,"
Mayor Virginia Raggi wrote on Twitter.
"A very serious event, I express all my solidarity,"
she added.
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A police deminers unit intervened Wednesday afternoon in the residential area of Rome where the politician was stationed after a passer-by noticed suspicious sons in the car, Italian media reported, citing police sources.
The street was blocked off and experts defused what reports described as a homemade bomb.
Marco Doria had already been placed under police protection after threats linked to his denunciation of the squats of historic buildings, according to the TGcom24 channel.
The Rome Public Prosecutor's Office has opened an investigation.
