A Bologna appeals court on Wednesday
upheld a life sentence for former NAR rightist terror group
member Gilberto Cavallini for his part in the August 2, 1980
Bologna train station bombing that killed 85 people and injured
200.
Cavallini was again found guilty of helping convicted bombers
Giuseppe Valerio (Giusva) Fioravanti, his girlfriend Francesca
Mambro and Luigi Ciavardini, all NAR members.
The Bologna massacre was a terrorist bombing of the Central
Station at Bologna on the morning of 2 August 1980, carried out
by the neo-fascist terrorist organization Nuclei Armati
Rivoluzionari (NAR, Armed Revolutionary Groups), which has
always denied any involvement.
Other theories have been proposed, especially in correlation
with the rightist 'strategy of tension' designed to keep the
Italian Communist Party (PCI) out of power.
The bombing is the fourth deadliest terrestrial terrorist
attack in Western Europe behind the Nice attack in July 2016,
the Paris attacks in November 2015, and the Madrid train
bombings in March 2004.
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