Only later was it established that all of it belonged to the young man who had turned to the Carabinieri.
The carabinieri that night were having their debrief in the same part of the bus park and we could see them embracing and high-fiving.
Their supporters, if they knew the history of the place, kept their wits about them crossing Ponte Pietro Nenni, and the carabinieri, in full riot gear, gave the impression they were not the types to approach for directions.
It was a frightened 20-year-old member of Italy's (paramilitary) carabinieri who had shot and killed a 23-year-old protester, also Italian, who was about to hurl a heavy fire-extinguisher into his jeep, trapped by a mob.That shooting could be understood.
ON A snowy mountain pass in Bosnia this week, Italian carabinieri set up a road-block to check passing vehicles for contraband.
IT WAS not clear at once, but it soon became so: whatever the violence of the anarchist or merely thuggish minority of protesters at the G8 summit, some of Italy's police and carabinieri behaved at least as badly.
THE suicide bombing of a carabinieri headquarters at Nasiriya in Iraq has stunned Italy.
The current level is decidedly on the low side, at 1.7%% of GNP, including the 0.6 % which goes to the carabinieri or paramilitary police.Luigi Caligaris, a retired brigadier and a right-wing former member of the European Parliament, believes that Italy will soon be experiencing difficulties familiar to defence planners in other countries.
Further inquiries led the authorities to a company administrator in Basle who was involved in managing trafficked archaeological objects for his clients – one of whom was Mr Symes, say the Italian carabinieri.
According to the Italian carabinieri, Symes moved to Switzerland, where his activities were monitored.
Some observers noted that dispatching uniformed carabinieri appeared more like a PR stunt that meaningful sleuthing.
