Govt to stand as plaintiff in Piazza della Loggia bombing

(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 23 - The government will stand as plaintiff in the latest trial into the 1974 Piazza della Loggia bombing that killed eight people and wounded 102 more during an anti-fascist rally in the northern city of Brescia, Cabinet Secretary Alfredo Mantovano said Thursday.
    In 2015, a court of appeal in Milan issued a final life sentence to rightist militant Ordine Nuovo (New Order) members Carlo Maria Maggi and Maurizio Tramonte for ordering the bombing, closing one of the longest-running cases on terrorism during Italy's 'years of lead' of rightist and leftist terror.
    Currently two other Ordine Nuovo-linked former militants, Roberto Zorzi and Marco Toffaloni, are on trial for actually carrying out the bombing on May 28 1974.
    The government had initially been reported as not having decided to stand as civil plaintiff in the case.
    The trial is set for a preliminary hearing later Thursday.
    (ANSA).