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*obvious disclaimer: not a native speaker of English, I'm Italian. Sorry if I messes up.
The Italian Unabomber was an unknown terrorist that committed a series of bombings in the Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia regions of Italy from 1994 to 2006.
The Italian Unabomber placed small booby-trapped objects in public spaces in Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia which were designed to detonate when handled by a passerby and seriously injure but not kill the victim. The Italian Unabomber was named by the international press in reference to Ted Kaczynski, the American Neo-Luddite terrorist and mail bomber known as the "Unabomber", but the Italian bomber made no political or economic demands. Over 20 explosive devices were attributed to the Italian Unibomber and resulted in numerous people receiving injuries including the removal of digits and limbs.
On August 28, 2006, Italian police raided the house of Elvo Zornitta, a 49-year-old engineer, who had been under surveillance for a year with assistance from the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation. In January 2009, after years of investigations, the case was dropped after the prosecutors asked for its dismissal, for lack of evidence. Zornitta received €2,500,000 as compensation for his arrest and trial which included false evidence.
Profiling
The profiling attempts offer the portrait of a man between the ages of 35 and 50, given the prolonged time of activity and the knowledge shown in making his traps. The preparation reveals not only excellent manual skills and expertise in chemistry, but also obsessive attention to detail. Considering the time required for preparation, it is likely that he will live alone or have an isolated place available. It is not excluded that he observed some of the explosions from afar, but in his modus operandi no tendency towards exhibitionism or the intention to leave a signature emerged. There are many hypotheses on the motives, based on the fact that most of the victims were hit on Catholic holidays or in places of collective gathering. Favorite victims do not belong to despised social categories, but are ordinary people or even children. According to some psychologists, he may suffer from trauma or impairment, which would push him to hit without aiming at any specific goal.
Clues elements
The main clues in the hands of the investigating authorities on the Unabomber case are the objective findings of the exploded and unexploded ordnance, the DNA collected by the RIS of Parma starting from the hair and traces of saliva found in the bomb egg of the Portogruaro hypermarket, a partial fingerprint taken from one of the objects, the criminal profiles of the attacker, his timing, his territoriality, the materials and techniques used to package the bombs.
Many of the bombs manufactured by Unabomber are pipe bombs with a very simple structure: a segment of plumbing pipe with two caps at the ends. They are filled with mixtures of nitrogen compounds starting from an easily available material: from common fireworks, to hunting ammunition, to herbicides and fertilizers. Since October 2000, however, the explosive devices have become much more elaborate, demonstrating the remarkable technical skill of the attacker, which goes as far as the use of a compound that is very difficult to handle such as nitroglycerin. This shift also took into consideration the possible existence of an emulator.
Suspects
The suspects in the Unabomber case were very numerous. In 2000, a thousand names were investigated by the investigators, who were selected by exclusion with the help of an FBI software that allowed to cross the telematic tracks and the other available data. The circle narrowed more and more to a dozen individuals. Occasionally a specific person's name emerged.
Andrea Agostinis
On August 5, 1996, in the aftermath of the Lignano episode, a telephone call was received at the ANSA headquarters in Rome which attributed the gesture to the November 17 Group, author of two claims in the same period for as many attacks in the United States.
There was only one expert in this phantom organization in Italy: the Tolmezzino teacher of technical drawing Andrea Agostinis. The professor was also a journalist, and in the days preceding the events in Lignano he published a detailed investigation of the Group on the November 17 in the Quotidiano del Friuli. In addition, the man had reported the claim to ANSA on the radio before anyone else.
The investigators considered him the author of the call and ordered the search of his home in Lignano, as well as the ITI Arturo Malignani of Udine where he worked. Agostinis was the recipient of a guarantee information and thus entered the investigation for the crimes of Unabomber, but the insufficiency of the circumstantial picture was soon evident and the case was closed in 1999. The other claims of the 17 November Group were also recognized as false. In the meantime, Unabomber's attacks had stopped.
Elvo Zornitta
The engineer Elvo Zornitta officially ended up under investigation from 6.40 on 26 May 2004, when law enforcement officers searched his home. His name had been suggested by another of the people investigated.
The elements against Zornitta appeared to be of enormous number compared to those of the other suspects. The main clues were the high technical skills (which Zornitta peacefully admitted), the area of his work movements corresponding to the Unabomber's range of action, and the discovery of small objects compatible with those used by the attacker, including some firecrackers without of the pyric dust.
Furthermore, it was suspected that Zornitta had a slight impairment, a feature often taken into account in the hypothetical profile of Unabomber, a suspect that was otherwise unverified. For the same reason, his younger brother Giuseppe was also suspected at first.
However, this complex clue was not enough. The man was closely monitored, even in his own home, over the course of two years during which Unabomber hit again. The engineer's alibis were confirmed by the investigators so much so that Vittorio Borraccetti, at the time of the events Chief Prosecutor of the Venice Public Prosecutor, confirmed in 2011 that for at least two of the attacks carried out by Unabomber there was absolute certainty of not involvement of Zornitta, but despite everything the investigation continued in that direction.
For this reason it was assumed the presence of another person dedicated to placing the bombs on his behalf. Suspicions also fell on his wife, as well as on his brother for the period prior to the onset of a serious illness. For these reasons, in addition to Zornitta, his relatives and friends, acquaintances and colleagues were subjected to DNA testing, in order to cross-check the results with the data available to the investigators. The tests came back negative.
October 10, 2006 it appeared that the investigators had found overwhelming evidence against Zornitta: the compatibility between the blades of a seized pair of scissors and the cuts on the sheet of the bomb found in the church of Sant'Agnese in Portogruaro.
But on January 17, 2007 the lawyer Maurizio Paniz, overturned the result of the appraisal, assuming that a small strip of the sheet had been cut with the same scissors after the seizure. When new analyzes confirmed this supposition, the policeman Ezio Zernar ended up under investigation, who turned out to have "rigged" the evidence in order to frame Zornitta.
This dealt a serious blow to the investigations against engineer Zornitta, whose file was filed on March 2, 2009 at the request of the prosecutor.
Source: it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unabomber_(Italia)
*obvious disclaimer: not a native speaker of English, I'm Italian. Sorry if I messes up.
The Italian Unabomber was an unknown terrorist that committed a series of bombings in the Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia regions of Italy from 1994 to 2006.
The Italian Unabomber placed small booby-trapped objects in public spaces in Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia which were designed to detonate when handled by a passerby and seriously injure but not kill the victim. The Italian Unabomber was named by the international press in reference to Ted Kaczynski, the American Neo-Luddite terrorist and mail bomber known as the "Unabomber", but the Italian bomber made no political or economic demands. Over 20 explosive devices were attributed to the Italian Unibomber and resulted in numerous people receiving injuries including the removal of digits and limbs.
On August 28, 2006, Italian police raided the house of Elvo Zornitta, a 49-year-old engineer, who had been under surveillance for a year with assistance from the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation. In January 2009, after years of investigations, the case was dropped after the prosecutors asked for its dismissal, for lack of evidence. Zornitta received €2,500,000 as compensation for his arrest and trial which included false evidence.
Profiling
The profiling attempts offer the portrait of a man between the ages of 35 and 50, given the prolonged time of activity and the knowledge shown in making his traps. The preparation reveals not only excellent manual skills and expertise in chemistry, but also obsessive attention to detail. Considering the time required for preparation, it is likely that he will live alone or have an isolated place available. It is not excluded that he observed some of the explosions from afar, but in his modus operandi no tendency towards exhibitionism or the intention to leave a signature emerged. There are many hypotheses on the motives, based on the fact that most of the victims were hit on Catholic holidays or in places of collective gathering. Favorite victims do not belong to despised social categories, but are ordinary people or even children. According to some psychologists, he may suffer from trauma or impairment, which would push him to hit without aiming at any specific goal.
Clues elements
The main clues in the hands of the investigating authorities on the Unabomber case are the objective findings of the exploded and unexploded ordnance, the DNA collected by the RIS of Parma starting from the hair and traces of saliva found in the bomb egg of the Portogruaro hypermarket, a partial fingerprint taken from one of the objects, the criminal profiles of the attacker, his timing, his territoriality, the materials and techniques used to package the bombs.
Many of the bombs manufactured by Unabomber are pipe bombs with a very simple structure: a segment of plumbing pipe with two caps at the ends. They are filled with mixtures of nitrogen compounds starting from an easily available material: from common fireworks, to hunting ammunition, to herbicides and fertilizers. Since October 2000, however, the explosive devices have become much more elaborate, demonstrating the remarkable technical skill of the attacker, which goes as far as the use of a compound that is very difficult to handle such as nitroglycerin. This shift also took into consideration the possible existence of an emulator.
Suspects
The suspects in the Unabomber case were very numerous. In 2000, a thousand names were investigated by the investigators, who were selected by exclusion with the help of an FBI software that allowed to cross the telematic tracks and the other available data. The circle narrowed more and more to a dozen individuals. Occasionally a specific person's name emerged.
Andrea Agostinis
On August 5, 1996, in the aftermath of the Lignano episode, a telephone call was received at the ANSA headquarters in Rome which attributed the gesture to the November 17 Group, author of two claims in the same period for as many attacks in the United States.
There was only one expert in this phantom organization in Italy: the Tolmezzino teacher of technical drawing Andrea Agostinis. The professor was also a journalist, and in the days preceding the events in Lignano he published a detailed investigation of the Group on the November 17 in the Quotidiano del Friuli. In addition, the man had reported the claim to ANSA on the radio before anyone else.
The investigators considered him the author of the call and ordered the search of his home in Lignano, as well as the ITI Arturo Malignani of Udine where he worked. Agostinis was the recipient of a guarantee information and thus entered the investigation for the crimes of Unabomber, but the insufficiency of the circumstantial picture was soon evident and the case was closed in 1999. The other claims of the 17 November Group were also recognized as false. In the meantime, Unabomber's attacks had stopped.
Elvo Zornitta
The engineer Elvo Zornitta officially ended up under investigation from 6.40 on 26 May 2004, when law enforcement officers searched his home. His name had been suggested by another of the people investigated.
The elements against Zornitta appeared to be of enormous number compared to those of the other suspects. The main clues were the high technical skills (which Zornitta peacefully admitted), the area of his work movements corresponding to the Unabomber's range of action, and the discovery of small objects compatible with those used by the attacker, including some firecrackers without of the pyric dust.
Furthermore, it was suspected that Zornitta had a slight impairment, a feature often taken into account in the hypothetical profile of Unabomber, a suspect that was otherwise unverified. For the same reason, his younger brother Giuseppe was also suspected at first.
However, this complex clue was not enough. The man was closely monitored, even in his own home, over the course of two years during which Unabomber hit again. The engineer's alibis were confirmed by the investigators so much so that Vittorio Borraccetti, at the time of the events Chief Prosecutor of the Venice Public Prosecutor, confirmed in 2011 that for at least two of the attacks carried out by Unabomber there was absolute certainty of not involvement of Zornitta, but despite everything the investigation continued in that direction.
For this reason it was assumed the presence of another person dedicated to placing the bombs on his behalf. Suspicions also fell on his wife, as well as on his brother for the period prior to the onset of a serious illness. For these reasons, in addition to Zornitta, his relatives and friends, acquaintances and colleagues were subjected to DNA testing, in order to cross-check the results with the data available to the investigators. The tests came back negative.
October 10, 2006 it appeared that the investigators had found overwhelming evidence against Zornitta: the compatibility between the blades of a seized pair of scissors and the cuts on the sheet of the bomb found in the church of Sant'Agnese in Portogruaro.
But on January 17, 2007 the lawyer Maurizio Paniz, overturned the result of the appraisal, assuming that a small strip of the sheet had been cut with the same scissors after the seizure. When new analyzes confirmed this supposition, the policeman Ezio Zernar ended up under investigation, who turned out to have "rigged" the evidence in order to frame Zornitta.
This dealt a serious blow to the investigations against engineer Zornitta, whose file was filed on March 2, 2009 at the request of the prosecutor.
Source: it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unabomber_(Italia)