Italy: Man Threatens to Blow Self up at JW Meeting of 2,000 (page 2)

Neo

I got these news two hours ago. Blondie, you're quick! I'll post some additional info as soon as I can.

Neo

From an Italian news source, Corriere della Sera. (A tentative translation follows.)

(http://www.corriere.it/Primo_Piano/Cronache/2005/02_Febbraio/26/geova.shtml)

CRONACHE
E' successo a Roma, nalla zona di san Basilio

Uomo assalta tempio dei Geova: bloccato

Si barrica nell'edificio minacciandosi di farsi saltare in aria
«Arriverà la fine del mondo», dice prima di essere fermato

ROMA - Paura per duemila persone, tutti quanti testimoni di Geova, a Roma. Un uomo che si è identificato come Angelo Cicero, 35 anni, già noto alle forze dell'ordine ed anch'egli ex testimone di Geova, si è barricato nel pomeriggio di sabato all'interno del tempio dei fedeli che si trova in piazzale Hegel nella zona di san Basilio.
L'uomo, armato di una pistola e a quanto sembra di una cintura esplosiva, ha minacciato di farsi esplodere mostrando alcuni fili elettrici che gli escono dalla giacca. Per un'ora le persone che si trovavano all'interno della struttura, tra cui numerosi bambini, sono state tenute in ostaggio e poi tutte quante liberate. I carabinieri intervenuti sul posto hanno fatto evacuare la struttura. Anche il sindaco di Roma Walter Veltroni ha seguito da vicino l'evolversi della vicenda che si è conclusa fortunatamente con il fermo dell'uomo, bloccato e immobilizzato dai carabinieri.

CHI E' - Angelo Cicero, originario di Paternò (Palermo) un anno fa era stato espulso dai Testimoni di Geova. Non ha spiegato i motivi del suo gesto ma ha chiesto soltanto di poter parlare. Cicero è salito sul palco della sala al primo piano impugnando una pistola e mostrando una cinta da kamikaze ed uno zainetto dicendo che erano pieni di esplosivo. Al micorfofono ha poi annunciato la «fine del mondo per questa sera con l'arrivo dell'Armageddon».

Babelfish Altavista Translation:

REPORTS
E' succeeded to Rome, nalla zone of saint Basilio

Man assaults tempio of the Geova: blocked

He barricades himself in the building threatening itself blows up yourself
"the end of the world Will arrive", says before being stopped

ROME - Fear for two thousand persons, all how many witnesses of Geova, to Rome. A man who have identified themselves like Cicero Angel, 35 years, already famous to the police enforcements and anch' it former witness of Geova, has barricapt itself in the afternoon of saturday to the inside of the tempio of the faithfuls that is found in Hegel large square in the zone of saint Basilio.

The man, armed with a gun and to how much seems of an explosive belt, has threatened makes itself to explode showing some threads electrical workers who exit to it from the jacket. For an hour the persons who found themselves to the inside of the structure, between which numerous children, they have been held in hostage and then all freed how many. The police officers taken part on the place have made to evacuate the structure. Also the mayor of Rome Walter Veltroni has followed close gives evolversi of the vicissitude that has been concluded fortunately with the detention of the man, blocked and immobilized from the police officers.

WHO E' - Cicero Angel, original of Paternò (Palermo) a year makes had been expelled from the Witnesses of Geova. It has not explained the reasons of its gesture but it has only asked for being able to speak. Cicero is salted on the theater box of knows it to the Association of Bologna appealling a gun and showing one encircled from kamikaze and a zainetto saying that they were full of explosive. To the micorfofono it has then announced the "end of the world for this evening with the arrival of the Armageddon".

candidlynuts

poor crazy fella... gotta feel sorry for him even if he is a nut.

Leolaia

Does this fulfill a prophecy from Revelation?

Neo

Does this fulfill a prophecy from Revelation?

Well, I think that our own resident archangel metatron is a much better prophet than the WT with its loony interpretations. He got his Awake prediction right, and his prophecy about crazy ex-dubs is also spot on! Check his old thread Watchtower's Dangerous Game

Neo

blondie

This story was printed from channelnewsasia.com

Title	:	Man arrested after threatening to blow himself up at Rome sect meeting
By	:
Date	:	27 February 2005 0146 hrs (SST)
URL	:	http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/134638/1/.html

ROME : An armed man threatened to blow himself up in a hall in Rome Saturday where around 2,000 members of the Jehovah's Witnesses church were holding a meeting, Italian media said.

The man barricaded himself inside a room on the first floor of the building after threatening the crowd, according to Sky's TG24 news channel.

Police later managed to arrest him after the hall was evacuated.

Armed with a pistol and with electrical wires protruding from under his jacket, the man, identified as Angelo Cicero from a town near Catania on the southern island of Sicily, had jumped onto the stage at the hall used by the Christian sect and threatened to blow himself up.

But after his arrest police did not find any explosives on him and his pistol was empty.

Cicero gave no reason for his threat but he had been expelled from the sect last year and has tried several times to be readmitted.

He was known to the police for a number of felonies, including robbery. - AFP