Counter-terror cops arrest pair for sending poo-smeared toilet paper to public figures An Italian couple have been nicked by counter-terror cops for, some, er, smearing letters they had sent to public figures. According to the Italian rozzers, over a two-year spree, the 71-year-old and his 54-year-old partner sent threatening and defamatory letters to high-profile targets, which also contained toilet paper …
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But a more casual observer might have thought that organised crime, drugs, people trafficking, and real terrorism (or getting the truth in the murder of Meredith Kercher) might have been higher on the Plodineri's list of priorities than people sending shitty letters.
I think it's perfectly fine for the "Plodineri" to deal with the unpleasant harassment of people, it being part of their job, although whether specifically anti-terror Plodineri might have had better things to do is a relevant question.
What I want to know (or would have expected to be made clearer in the article) is were/are these perpetrators charged under anti-terror legislation for their actions, since such laws seem to often be misused. If not, then this would seem to be pretty much a non-story.
Whoever wrote that headline summed up my days as a journo - buy them a pint.
I started out as a lowly intern reading the daily tide of crap that would get faxed in. They don't make loonies like they used to. Before the internet, the dedicated crazies would fax 20 pages of tightly scribbled brain-puke about how the Venusians are controlling the world using radios in our fillings.
Still, made better reading than the corporate drivel.
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