Six arrested in suspected plot to attack G8

Six people have been arrested on suspicion of planning an attack on the Group of Eight summit next month in Italy, police said Thursday.

The six were arrested Wednesday and Thursday, one month ahead of the July 8-10 summit of leading industrialised nations, anti-terrorist police chief Lamberto Giannini told a news conference.

The probe began two years ago when the summit was set to be held at the Sardinian island of La Maddalena, he said.

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Citing wiretaps, Giannini said the gang did not “strictly speaking” have an attack plan but “were discussing how they could get close to strategic points at the summit.”

They had maps of the summit’s closed-circuit surveillance system and “were trying to figure out how to bypass the security systems,” Giannini said.

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