’Plot to kill pope’ sparks Italian media storm | World news | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/10/plot-kill-pope-italian-media
The Italian daily Il Fatto Quotidiano published the sensational “mordkomplott” letter detailing an alleged plot against the pope on its front page on Friday. Despite a Vatican spokesman’s claiming it was “nonsense not to be taken seriously”, the content of the anonymous warning letter, dated 30 December 2011, was reported widely in Italian and German media.