Wikileaks - The Syria files - Selex Elsag delivering a TETRA system to Syria

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The below is part of the full article written by Stefania Maurizi from "L'Espresso".

The secret files of new Wikileaks show that the Italian giant has provided a communications system to the Syrian regime engaged in repression. And the support came from Italy during the clashes.

Today, the Syrian regime can count on the advanced Italian technology, supplied by Selex Elsag giant Finmeccanica. This was revealed by a database of 2,434,899 documents obtained by Wikileaks: are the "Syria Files" to which "L'Espresso" has had exclusive access to Italy.

An internal email from Syrians without understanding how the system components supplied by Selex have been ordered was sent to the Muadamia police, a suburb of Damascus, just after the days when it was the scene of violent clashes. Another e-mail announcing the arrival of the engineers of Selex in Damascus, to instruct the use of the communication network, also to be used on helicopters: it is dated February 2012, when the drama of the country had become a case World.

The contract with Damascus dates back to 2008, when the feeling between Italy and Syria was great and distant Arab spring. The agreement of 40 million euros was signed with a Greek company, Intracom Telecom, and will supply the Tetra Syrian Wireless Organization, the body of the Syrian government.

Source: L'Espresso