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Trichet: Suspected bomb intercepted at the central bank
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(CNN) -- A letter bomb was delivered to a European crime fighting organization based in the Netherlands, but the device did not explode, the Dutch prosecutors office said.
The parcel, discovered Tuesday at the headquarters of Eurojust, was the fourth suspicious device delivered by mail in the last four days in Europe. At least two of the parcels were sent from the northern Italian city of Bologna.
On Monday, letter bombs were intercepted at the Dutch headquarters of the EU's police agency Europol and at the European Central Bank in Frankfurt. The second letter was addressed to ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet.
A Frankfurt police spokesman said the parcel sent to Trichet as postmarked Bologna.
The German federal prosecutors office said Tuesday it suspected an Italian group with anarchist links of sending the letter bomb to Trichet. It declined further comment saying the probe was in the preliminary stages, Reuters reported.
On Saturday, European Union Commission President Romano Prodi escaped injury after he opened a letter bomb at his home in Bologna.
Prodi, the former Italian prime minister, said he opened the parcel very carefully after "recent warnings," apparently in reference to two small home-made bombs that exploded in rubbish bins near his Bologna apartment on December 22. (Italy probes Prodi parcel bombing)
Trichet, former governor of the Bank of France, took over as head of the ECB bank in November from Dutch banker Wim Duisenberg. (Trichet profile)
