The Islamists, from the website 'Mujahideen', today launched a new warning to the head of the Coptic Church, Shenouda III and his faithful: "The next explosion will take place very soon." He added: "We have already warned, God is my witness." The site had already published a list of churches to be hit, including the Saints of Alexandria, which later became the scene of the massacre of Christians on January 31 last year.The sensitive targets are not absent in Italy. After the massacre at Alexandria and the threat of Al Qaeda, must be considered of potential interest to the fundamentalists also Coptic Orthodox Church. For this reason, the Department of Public Safety urges provincial authorities to consider appropriate actions on the territory of the surveillance and prevention in the vicinity of Coptic worship.
To this end, it is being drawn up an inventory of sites throughout Italy to be subjected to special surveillance in view of the Coptic Orthodox Christmas celebrations, scheduled for Friday, January 7. By the day after the on-going monitoring will occur in the adoption of specific preventive measures, as part of a general level of attention increased after the events of recent days.
The mayor of Rome Gianni Alemanno has announced that it will take part in the celebrations of the anniversary: "Tomorrow evening attend the Coptic Christmas to express my solidarity and that of the city to a community hard hit by violence. I will not go, however, in the event of 9, given the strictly sectarian took.
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