Former rightist militant Paolo Bellini
got life imprisonment Wednesday for his part in the 1980 bombing
at Bologna train station that killed 85 people and injured 200
more.
Bellini, 68, a former member of Avanguardia Nazionale (National
Vanguard), was found guilty of being the fifth bomber alongside
the former NAR members already convicted, Giusva Fioravanti,
Francesca Mambro, Luigi Ciavardini, and Gilberto Cavallini.
Also accused of the massacre on August 2, 1980, Italy's worst in
the Years of Lead, but not actionable because deceased, were
former head of the subversive Propaganda Due (P2) Masonic lodge
Licio Gelli, as well as ex-businessman Umberto Ortolani, former
rogue secret agent Federico Umberto D'Amato, and former
journalist and politician Mario Tedeschi.
Bellini was given one year of solitary confinement.
Fioravanti, Mambro, and Ciavardini have been definiitively
convicted while Cavallini has been convicted by a first-instance
court, like Bellini.
All five said they were innocent of the Bologna bombing while
admitting other terrorist crimes.
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