A 1974 bombing in Brescia was
"certainly" the work of extreme-right subversives, a Milan
appeals court wrote in an opinion ANSA obtained a copy of
Wednesday.
"All the evidentiary elements point unequivocally to the
guilt of Carlo Maria Maggi," the court wrote in its explanation
for why it sentenced Maggi and co-defendant Maurizio Tramonte to
life in prison for the May 28, 1974, attack in Brescia's Piazza
della Loggia that killed eight people and wounded more than 100.
Maggi "was certain he could count on the support if not
outright protection from members of the State apparatus and
national and foreign security services," the judges wrote.
The bomb was placed inside a rubbish bin at the east end of
the piazza, and went off during a demonstration against
rightwing terrorism that had been organized by unions and
anti-fascist groups, and that was attended by labor leaders and
leftwing MPs.
In 2015, the Milan court handed down definitive life
sentences to far-right group Ordine Nuovo (Italian for New
Order) members Maggi and Tramonte - a former secret service
informant - for ordering the bombing.
The verdict closed one of the longest-running terrorism
cases during Italy's so-called Years of Lead, a period of
turmoil that lasted from the late 1960s into the early 1980s and
was marked by a wave of political terrorism.
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