Licia Pinelli, widow of an anarchist
railwayman initially blamed for the December 1969 Piazza Fontana
bombing and whose death falling from a Milanese police station
window inspired Nobel prize winner Dario Fo's play The
Accidental Death of An Anarchist and over which Milan police
commissioner Luigi Calabresi was later assassinated, died in her
Milanese home aged 96 on Monday.
Mrs Pinelli said she would go to her grave "never finding out
the whole truth of what happened to Pino" after the first major
act in Italy's Year of Lead of left and rightwing political
violence, in which 17 people were killed on December 12, 1969 -
although she would go on to have a "reconciliatory" embrace with
Calabresi's widow Gemma Capra a few years ago.
Licia Pinelli was made a dame of the Italian republic in 2015
but in 2022 filed a defamation suit against ex Milan police
chief Achille Serra for saying her late husband's death was a
suicide, as police initially said.
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