€2 billion telescope bid in Italy shaken by arson attacks

Image: EGO/INFN · science.org The cars of Carlo Giunchi and Spina Cianetti, geophysicists at the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, were deliberately set ablaze in Lula, Sardinia on August 1st, directly targeting key personnel involved in the bid to host the €2 billion Einstein Telescope. The arson attack, occurring three years after a bomb threat at the…