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Terror sweep in Italy

ROME: Police arrested 15 persons across northern Italy on Monday in raids against a far-left terrorist group with ideological ties to the Red Brigades movement that terrorised Italy in the 1970s and 1980s, officials said. The arrests took place in Milan, Turin, Padua and other cities in northern Italy. Those arrested were accused of subversive association and forming an armed gang, state police said in a statement. Police also conducted 80 searches, mainly of gathering places for leftists. The investigation into the group began in 2004, when police searched a Milan basement where they found documents, a blow torch, a timer and electronic equipment, the statement said. The Red Brigades plagued Italy with high-profile attacks, including the 1978 kidnapping and slaying of former Premier Aldo Moro. — AP

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