This was one of the top stories on the BBC news channel this morning. The mayor of Brindisi is blaming it on the local mafia, the school is named after the wife of Giovanni Falcone. I can't see the mafia gaining anything from this, could be a false flag attack, as Italy is broke and facing financial disaster. Two girls have been killed and a couple other injured.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18128170

Thanks for sharing Gerry.. The Italian mafias have a long history of violence, but this seems crazy. Even the mafia wouldnt take part in bombing a school..

It was not in Sicily. It was the sacra corona unita mafia who have been linked to it http://news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16231122 . But it's disgusting if the mafia was involved. Disgusting anyhow

That is my mistake, I thought they mentioned it was in Sicily on the BBC. The mayor quick reaction to blame it on the mafia makes me think this might be a false flag operation, or something pulled off by another group, Italy did throw Gaddafi under the bus.

School is named after Falcone's wife as mentioned. 20th anniversary of Falcone and his wife's death coming up on Wednesday, May 23. They expect a few of these things to happen throughout the country nearing the 20th anniversary mark.

Italy doesn't do these things. If they think it's the mafia, they say so, and it is. They don't play around with this false flag stuff.

if it was terrorists they would have gone after a better target than some random school in the puglian region.
Wonder why the sacra corona people would do it.I didn't think that falcone targeted them in any prosecutions.

Because they're in that region. You're not going to have Sicilians come way up there to carry out some bombing in an all girl vocational school. If the sicilians want to carry something out to mark the anniversary, they'll do it on their own turf so to speak.
Makes no difference if they were targeted in prosecutions or not. The magistrates were hated equally by all the mafias for imposing article 41-bis on those prisoners indicted among other things.

Demented! If this is the work of Sacra Corona and or the Mafia (or anyone else for that matter) it just goes to show the long, twisted memory and perverse thought patterns within these criminal organizations.

I hope they catch the perps and throw away the keys.

No matter what, if it was carried out by SCU, it came up from the Sicilians. They would have been pulling the strings behind this.

Who knows. Maybe last week when Provenzano made that phony attempt to kill himself and the govt said he's possibly sending messages this way to mafia, it had something to do with this. Just saying.

Nice Conspiracy Carmela but would the Mafia done it on May 23rd rather then today? Or maybe the SCU are threatening the authorities after the bust last week?

This whole time right now on through July when Borsellino was murdered are referred to as the Capaci Massacres. So, if this is what it's all about, then it could be from now all through July. If that's what it's about.

Bust last week is another possibility and hitting a school is something of a symbol for the mafia, albeit disgusting. They have a saying in Italy "La mafia teme piu la scuola che la giustizia" meaning The mafia fears school more than justice.

Also, the exact timing of this bomb was intended to kill, as it was set for the exact time the girls would be arriving. That's the saddest part.

Could of been a mistake by hitting the school since the courtrooms are right next to it? But probs isnt. Whats that saying suppose to mean? don't understand . Do you live in Italy or have done or what?

No, I don't live there, i just know a lot about it.

The saying means the mafia has more of a fear of children getting an education and not having fear of the mob as their parents and grandparents did in the past, more than they fear the justice system. Without fear and with education, the mafia cannot thrive.

How awful is this,poor girls did nothing to them.They went too far.

Ah I understand now Carm, Thanks! and Yeh unfortunately they did. Should bring alot of heat on them which should be good!

A crazy act, fierce, obscure matrix for now, even if the track privileged, is the mafia. Two bombs have exploded this morning in Brindisi in front of a professional institute in district Sant'Angelo named Francesca Morvillo and Giovanni Falcone, not far by the tribunal, causing the death of a sixteen year old student, Melissa Bassi, a native of Mesagne, in Brindisi. Very Serious a girl her own age in the operating room, for the serious injuries to the head, legs and chest-abdominal site. Seven other students were injured in the explosion and are now in the hospital 'Perrino' of the Apulian city. Two other students would be the in critical condition, having suffered serious leg injuries, and burns on most of the body.
According to the preliminary reports, The explosion happened at 7:50 of this morning, as students were entering the institution. The bomb, according to the leaked from intelligence sources, was placed on the wall of the school (and not in a rubbish bin for waste separation as originally hypothesized) partially occulted by a billboard and would consist of three gas cylinders connected by three different primer
For the time has not come any claim of this infamous act, but it is noted that the attack was made ​​on days on which marks the twentieth anniversary, the attack of Capaci, the judge Falcone. In addition, today is provided in the passage of the brindisino, Caravan antimafia. The data in the possession of the investigators would lean towards the runway when mafia on other hypotheses being studied by investigators. In Mesa, the country of birth of the student who lost his life, the night of May 4 and 5 had been damaged by a bomb the car of the president of the anti-racket of the city in the province of Brindisi. 9, the police operation had been performed, again in Mesa, which has dismantled an organization linked to the Sacra Corona Unita mafia. The operation, called 'Die Hard', led to the arrest of 16 people for Mafia association, extortion and drugs. On 8 May a group of politicians from Puglia, led by Alfredo Mantovano (PDL), was received at the Viminale, by the Minister of the Interior, Anna Maria Cancellieri, which had reported the crime alert in Brindisi. The request of the meeting was a follow precisely the bomb detonated in the car of the president of the anti-racketeering Mesagne (Brindisi) and a series of other criminal incidents related to the Sacra Corona Unita. According to prosecutor Marco DiNapoli "would be the first time the Sacra Corona Unita strikes in this way."

But why you didn't put this in the thread that's already been started?

I had not seen the post, Carmela and I can not delete the post, because you have already replied to the post, just as well now, that I keep the post

among the hypotheses to substantiate the thesis Mafia
1) The professional institute was dedicated to Giovanni Falcone and Francesca Morvillo, a short distance by the tribunal;
2) on May 23 recurring 20 years after the Capaci's massacre;
3) days prior to an operation called'' Die Hard'', led to the arrest of 16 persons for extortion, mob association and drug dealing;

furio, one thing I don't understand is this caravan they keep talking about? Can you explain it for me?

I just moved this to the already existing thread. Both are now here as one thread.

What's "Caravan."
"We love travel, see, discover, so we started a voyage passionate and dangerous, difficult, but exciting. A journey to new hypotheses of existence, a journey that can give ideas, words, gestures, freedom." With these words, the movement was born in 1994, has since engaged to spreading the concept of education to the democratic legality, to support the victims of usury, extortion of protection money.

In a word to the fight against corruption.

The caravan as a journey around the time of change, torn between the desire to turn the page and the big concern for social issues.

"Organized crime and corruption are the major obstacles to the development, the agents of degradation that weaken the economies of entire countries,"
I think Carmela, that the mafia or the sacra corona unita wanted to give a clear message:
'' 20 years have passed but we are still here, stronger and more ruthless, the Italian State does not make us fear''

its a strategy of tension, the mafia did it in the past even worse like when attacked the trains with several dead in the 80s or when attacked rome, milan, florence and other cities in the 90s
this things happen when there is not a strong goverment and in italy there is a techich right now and when the mafia i under attack
i also think its the sicilians however startting this things, sacra corona probably made the bomb but the order came from seombody else
just see like riina brother-in-law is living in brindisi

Totally agree.

And furio..thanks for that post explaining that to me. I think we all feel the same way about why it happened and who was the real group behind it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EClK0t6Qc7E

I'm aware of this. But, I'm talking about today, the past 20 years since forza italia and the whole anti-mafia movement went into affect, when it's the mafia (and even when it isn't) the govt will jump at the chance to put blame on the mafia and show them for what they are. They would not sit on that info knowing it's the mafia behind it. Never.

behind a similar attack in italy can be only mafia or right-wind terrorists or a mix of them, mafia and right-wind terrorits had links in the past and they still have
anarchist and left-wind terrorits usually have more specific targets and they usually claims the act suddenly after
i bet nobody never claims this act like nobody ever claim other sluaghters in the past done by mafia or mafia/right-wind terrorits, the so called strategy of tension

and of course politics or secret services are often involved behind the scene too

if Italy have become the mexico of europe, it is only because of our politicians, in 1992 tangentopolies and Clean Hands, we could be reset the political situation, the old historic parties: the Communist Party and the Christian Democratic Party, which in its history has had many elected criminals in its ranks, we were dissolved, if D'Alema with the Bicameral of 1994 has took off the television of Silvio Berlusconi, we would have had a second republicthat was not a hypocrite photocopy of the first, but this did not happen.
after 1992, the Mafia has responded with bombs, but stopped Toto Riina, Provenzano began with the strategy of the dive.
Berlusconi since 2001, has plunged Italy into a dark period,
with the euro has been halved buying power, the lack of meritocracy, a failing state and wasteful, 120 billion a year of tax evasion, a caste of politicians full of privileges, while the workers starve and fail to make ends mese.in recently increased the number of suicides due to debts, with Equitalia (the agency that collects taxes for the state) targeted by attacks, and a director of Ansaldo, kneecapped, I do not know whether it was the mafia, the Sacra Corona Unita or the secret services or the anarchists or the right-wing terrorism, I just know that such a situation had not seen even during the years of lead, I hope it is not getting worse, but I have serious doubts about this.