The high Cassation Court on
Monday upheld a life sentence for Mafia boss Francesco Tagliavia
for supplying the explosives that killed five and injured 40 in
a street near the Uffizi Gallery in Florence on May 27, 1993.
The bomb on Via dei Georgofili was part of a wave of strikes on
art and religious sites in 1993, believed to have been ordered
by Cosa Nostra to exert pressure to relax a strict jail regime
called 41-bis. The bombing was followed by another two: on 27
July, in Rome, near the churches of St. John Lateran and San
Giorgio al Velabro and in Milan, not far from a modern art
gallery in via Palestro, where another car bomb killed five
people
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