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Italy nabs guerrilla suspect after train gunfight
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/latestnewsstory.cfm?storyID=3198713&thesection=news&thesubsection=world
03.03.2003 8.39 am
AREZZO, Italy - After a deadly gunfight aboard a moving train, Italian authorities arrested a suspected woman guerrilla they believe was involved in the assassination of a government official nearly four years ago.
Transport police captured Desdemona Lioce, a 44-year-old suspected member of the so-called New Red Brigades, on a Florence-bound train but only after a shootout in which one officer died and another was seriously injured.
Lioce was named as an accomplice in the investigation into the 1999 murder of Massimo D'Antona, an adviser to the labour ministry who was gunned down outside his Rome home.
On Sunday, three transport policemen aboard the train asked Lioce to show her identification. They were studying the documents as the train was nearing the Tuscan town of Arezzo when Lioce's male companion, Mario Galesi, whipped out a gun.
"The woman was also armed and she put a pistol to the head of one of the officers. She had a icy stare that I'll never forget," an off-duty traffic warden who was on the train told Ansa news agency.
In the shootout that followed one policeman was killed on the spot, another took a bullet in the liver and Galesi, 37, was also wounded. The traffic warden, off on a day trip to Florence with his wife, helped the third policeman restrain Lioce.
The New Red Brigades are the modern incarnation of the urban guerrilla group that terrorised Italy in the late 1970s and 1980s -- the so-called "years of lead" because of the bullets that littered pavements after the attacks.
The original Red Brigades hit the world's headlines in 1978 when they kidnapped and killed former Prime Minister Aldo Moro, leaving his body in the back of a car parked in central Rome.
Italy beefed up anti-terrorism legislation, giving police the right to stop passers-by and demand identification.
A decade of relative tranquillity ended with D'Antona's murder in May 1999 and in March 2002 the same pistol was used to kill Marco Biagi, a senior government economist.
The New Red Brigades claimed responsibility for the two assassinations, both carried out at moments of great tension in Italy -- first during the Kosovo crisis and then during massive union unrest over government labour reforms.
Now as the world anxiously waits to see whether there will be a US-led war in Iraq, authorities ask why Lioce and Galesi were on the train and armed.
"We think they were probably planning an attack," a source at the public prosecutor's office in Rome told Reuters.
Desdemona seems to have some sort of track record with the authorities. The older web articles that google returns are in Italian.
Translated by google from Italian.
I capi d'imputazione
http://qn.quotidiano.net/art/2000/05/16/926294
Nadia Desdemona Lioce. [May, 2000]
Never it has not been caught up from some provision, but it is from the ' 95 that the enquirers would want to speak with Nadia Desdemona Lioce, the woman whose name is between those contents in the guard decree. Before today the name of Nadia Desdemona Lioce, 41 years, pisana, had been connected to Luici Fuccini, 40 years, pisano, arrested to Rome in 1995 with to Fabio Matteini, 40 years, fiorentino: stopped for a normal control why surprises close to a small engine turned out stolen close to the mansion of the mail of the Cristoforo quarter Columbus, proclamarono then pertaining to the Communist Fighting Units and captive politicians.
According to the investigators the two, today both free ones, would have been in procinto committing a holdup, perhaps with the complicity of other persons. Nadia Lioce to the age cohabited to Pisa with Fuccini: for this the investigators would have intentional to speak them. But after the arrest of Fuccini one went away from Pisa. According to the last information he would have lived also in Germany. After the homicide Of Antona its name appears on the reports. An approach that door the family to diffuse, through a lawyer, a famous one in order to remember that the woman "is one free citizen, never subordinate to some penal procedure for crimes associate to you neither of other nature".