Facebook members accused of assassination plotting

Thousands of Facebook users are to be investigated in Italy as part of an investigation into an assassination plot of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

There are 20,000 members of a Facebook group called "Let's Kill Berlusconi"

As the Indy reports

A third of the group's members have joined in the past 48 hours after criticism by the Berlusconi family newspaper Il Giornale raised its profile

.adding that

Angelino Alfano, the Italian Justice minister, said: "I'm waiting for the magistrates to do their duty and investigate, pursue and find the ones, who by encouraging hatred and murder against Silvio Berlusconi, are committing a punishable offence."