Mattarella calls for full truth about Bologna bombing

(ANSA) - ROME, AUG 2 - President Sergio Mattarella said Tuesday that it was the State's duty to shed full light on the 1980 bombing at Bologna train station on the 42nd anniversary of the attack that killed 85 people and injured 200 more.
    Five members of far-right terrorist groups were convicted in relation to the bombing, the worst in Italy's 'Years of Lead' of political violence of the 1970s and 80s.
    But there are also suspicions that deviant elements within the nation's security services may have been involved.
    "The bomb that killed people who happened to be at the station on that morning 42 years ago still reverberates with violence in the depths of the country's conscience," Mattarella said.
    "It was the act of cowardly men of unequalled inhumanity, one of the most terrible of the history of the Italian Republic.
    "It was a terrorist attack that sought to destabilize the democratic institutions and sow fear, hitting ordinary citizens going about their everyday tasks.
    "On the day of the anniversary our thoughts go, above all, to the relatives forced to suffer the greatest pain and who managed to turn this into efforts as part of civil society to show society as a whole that the strategies of terror will never prevail over the Constitutional values of civil co-existence.
    "The acts of solidarity of the relatives deserve the gratitude of the Republic.
    "Their tenacity supported the work of the magistrates and servants of the State who managed to shed light on the culprits, the criminal designs and the despicable complicity.
    "The neo-fascist nature of the massacre has been established in court and further steps have been made to unveil the cover-ups and those who ordered the attack in order to comply with the Republic's duty to seek the complete truth". (ANSA).