“Italian police arrested two dozen separatists including a former parliamentarian on Wednesday on suspicion of gathering arms to violently split the wealthy northern region of Veneto from the rest of Italy. The group had converted a bulldozer into a tank with a makeshift cannon and intended to use it in an assault on St. Mark’s Square in the region’s capital Venice, police said.”

Source: Italy police arrest 24 for plotting violent Veneto secession | Reuters