The bullets came in a nondescript package: 123 of them and a letter. “We are from neither the Left, nor the Right, nor the Centre,” said the jagged handwriting. “Remember bullets don’t have parliamentary immunity. That is not a threat — it’s a promise.”
Antonio Di Pietro, the former anti-Mafia judge turned politician who received the package, says that such parcels do not intimidate him. But they do underscore the febrile atmosphere currently hanging over the Italian parliament.
This week the Government approved a controversial tax amnesty Bill, which allows Italians to repatriate funds hidden in tax havens abroad, wiping the slate clean on a number of criminal accounting offences. The Bill prompted opposition senators to walk out of the chamber in protest.
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