In Italy, the federal prosecutor of Bologna Marina Plazzi confirmed that an investigation against
Indymedia had been opened because of suspected "support of terrorism", in the context of Italian troops in the Iraqi city of Nasiriyah. The documents revealed that the government never officially demanded the computer servers—the subpoena to Rackspace only requested server log files (IP Addresses). Unfortunately indymedia do not actually store these informations.
The Italian minister of justice, Roberto Castelli, has refused further details. In November 2003, 17 members of parliament belonging to the right-wing Alleanza Nazionale, including Alessandra Mussolini demanded that Indymedia be shut down. A senior AN member and government official had announced the co-operation with US authorities (AN was a member of the Italian coalition government), and AN spokesman Mario Landolfi welcomed the FBI's seizure of the Indymedia servers.