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 despite having been exonerated, 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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