Rome Newsroom, 09 August, 2021 / 7:30 pm (ACI Africa).
An envelope addressed to Pope Francis and containing three gun bullets was intercepted in Milan late on Sunday night, according to Italian media reports.
The piece of mail, which had no return address but carried a French stamp, was addressed to "The Pope, Vatican City, St. Peter's Square in Rome," Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera reported.
Il Corriere said the envelope was found to contain three pieces of 9 millimeter ammunition, of the kind used in a Flobert gun, and a message referring to financial operations in the Vatican.
The manager of an Italian post office branch in the town of Peschiera Borromeo alerted authorities when he found the suspicious piece of mail during sorting on the night of Aug. 8.
According to reports, local law enforcement have seized the strange note and are investigating its origins.
