A face on a frame from an
amateur Super 8 film shot by a German tourist on the morning of
August 2, 1980, the day of the Bologna train bombing, shows a
"marked resemblance" to that of Paolo Bellini, former member of
rightist militant group Avanguardia Nazionale, ANSA learned
Monday.
On the basis of this document, which ANSA has seen, Bologna
prosecutors have requested the revocation of Bellini's 1992
acquittal so as to reopen investigations and make an
anthropometric recognition test.
Former rightist militant New Order chief Carlo Maria Maggi,
who died in December after being convicted of the Brescia bomb
massacre, said that "the aviator brought the bomb" to Bologna, a
comment which prosecutors think refers to Bellini who was a
flying fan.
Bologna prosecutors on Friday asked to investigate former
rightist militant Bellini in connection with the Bologna train
station bombing that killed 85 people on August 2, 1980.
Bellini testified as an informant on the alleged talks
between the State and the Mafia to stop a bombing campaign in
1992.
Other former rightist militants were convicted in the bombing
but investigations have continued.
Members of the NAR neo-fascist terrorist group including
Giusva Fioravanti and Francesca Mambro were convicted
over what was one of the worst atrocities of Italy's so-called
years of lead of political violence in the 1970s and 1980s.
President Sergio Mattarella said recently that it was
necessary to uncover the whole truth about the bombing and shed
light on the "shadowy areas" that remain in relation to the
attack.
Last April a Palermo court found guilty former heads of the
ROS security police Mario Mori, Giuseppe De Donno and Antonio
Subranni, former Forza Italia Senator and Berlusconi aide
Marcello Dell'Utri, and Mafia bosses Leoluca Bagarella and Nino
Cina' for holding talks between the Italian State and the
Sicilian Mafia aimed at stopping a wave of bombings in the early
1990s.
Also found guilty was go-between Massimo Ciancimino, son of
late Mafia-convicted Palermo mayor Vito Ciancimino.
The guilty parties were sentenced to prison terms ranging
from eight to 28 years.
Former interior minister Nicola Mancino was cleared of
perjury.
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