Professor Marco Tamietto, a
researcher with the University of Turin who has a project
experimenting on macaques to assist blind people in regaining
sight, received a threatening letter with a bullet inside, said
Italian daily Corriere della Sera on Friday.
Police are investigating to determine who sent the letter,
which was opened by Tamietto's colleagues and called the
professor a murderer, threatening to "hit you and your family".
Last summer Tamietto was attacked while walking to the
university rector's office, and the Italian health ministry has
received a petition with 350,000 signatures calling on the
government to ban the professor from experimenting on the
monkeys.
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