Photo: CNS Italian police announced Monday that they have identified the sender of a letter addressed to Pope Francis containing three bullets.
While the police haven’t released the name of the suspect, they said August 9 that it is a French citizen “already known to Vatican security, with whom the Carabinieri of Milan will now coordinate to evaluate the meaning of the gesture and its possible danger”.
According to Italian news agency ANSA, the information that most interests investigators is the sender’s location “because it would raise a different level of alarm to know if he were in France or in St Peter’s Square in Rome”.
The Italian police initially revealed that the envelope contained three pieces of nine millimetre ammunition and a message referring to financial operations in the Vatican.
Their latest statement revealed that the envelope also contained a copy of a 10 euro deposit, but it is not known why.