 Rescue teams making their way through the rubble The Bologna massacre, also known in Italy as the Strage di Bologna, was a terrorist bombing against the Central Station of Bologna, Italy on the morning of 2 August 1980, which killed 85 people and wounded more than 200. On August 2 1980 a bomb blasted through Bologna Central Station/rescue teams This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ...
On August 2 1980 a bomb blasted through Bologna Central Station/rescue teams This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ...
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History The first Bologna Centrale station was constructed in 1864, however there are sketchy and unclear testimonies regarding its life. ...
Bologna (from Latin Bononia, Bulaggna in the local dialect) is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy, between the Po River and the Apennines. ...
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1980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...
At 10h25min, a timed improvised explosive device (IED) contained in an unattended suitcase detonated inside a waiting lobby. The IED was made of TNT and T4. The explosion destroyed most of the main building and hit the Ancona-Chiasso train that was waiting at the first platform. The blast was heard for miles. An Improvised Explosive Device (IED) is a formal name for explosive devices as used in unconventional warfare by terrorists, guerrillas or commando forces in a theater of operations. ...
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Cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine, also known as RDX, cyclonite,hexogen, and T4, is an nitroamine and explosive material widely used by the military. ...
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Chiasso (pronounced Kyah-so) is a town in Switzerland. ...
On that summer Saturday the station was full of tourists and the town was unprepared for such an incident: ambulances were not enough, so even buses and taxis were used to take casualties to the hospitals.
The Italian government led by Francesco Cossiga and police authorities first considered the hypothesis of an accidental blast, then immediately tried to draw attention on the Italian based militant group Red Brigades as the possible authors of the bombing. Francesco Cossiga Francesco Cossiga (born July 26, 1928) is an Italian politician and former President of Italy. ...
Red Brigades (Brigate Rosse) is a militant group located in Italy. ...
Attempts to divert and obstruct investigations very soon became evident. This gave rise to a number of conspiracy theories in relation with the so-called strategy of tension. The Strategy of Tension (Italian; strategia della tensione) is a way to control and manipulate public opinion using propaganda, disinformation, psychological warfare, agents provocateurs and terror. ...
A long, troubled and controversial court case and political issue ensued. The relatives of the victims formed an association (Associazione tra i famigliari delle vittime della strage alla stazione di Bologna del 2 agosto 1980) to raise and maintain civil awareness on the case. On 23 November 1995 the Italian Supreme Court (Corte di Cassazione) issued the final sentence: November 23 is the 327th day of the year (328th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 38 days remaining. ...
1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
- confirmation of life imprisonment to the Neo-Fascist terrorists Valerio Fioravanti and Francesca Mambro — who have always pleaded innocent — as executors of the attack
- sentence for investigation diversion to Licio Gelli, Francesco Pazienza and to SISMI officers Pietro Musumeci and Giuseppe Belmonte.
To date instigators and political inspirators behind the attack are still unknown. Life imprisonment is a term used for a particular kind of sentence of imprisonment. ...
The terms Neo-Nazism and Neo-Fascism refer to any social or political movement to revive Nazism or Fascism, respectively, and postdates the Second World War. ...
Licio Gelli (born in Pistoia, April 21, 1919), masonic Grand Master of the powerful Italian lodge P2, and continued in this role after the expulsion of P2 from organised freemasonry in 1976. ...
SISMI (Servizi Informazione Sicurezzais) the military intelligence agency of Italy. ...
2 August is a memorial day for all the massacres. The municipality of Bologna together with the Associazione tra i famigliari delle vittime della strage alla stazione di Bologna del 2 agosto 1980 organize every year an international composing competition that ends with a concert in the town's main square Piazza Maggiore.
The wing of the station in which the bomb detonated has been reconstructed but, as a testimony to the attack, the original pavement was maintained as well as a deep crack in the main wall. Moreover, the station main clock is forever stopped at 10.25, the exact time of the explosion.
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The following is a timeline of acts and failed attempts that can be considered terrorism. ...
Retrived pieces of Itavia Flight 870 are in a Pratica di Mare hangar Itavia Flight 870 was a regularly scheduled flight from Guglielmo Marconi Airport in Bologna, Italy to Palermo International Airport in Palermo, Italy. ...
External links - stragi.it, official website of the association of the relatives of the victims (Italian only)
- BBC Overview the events
- "2 Agosto" international composing competition
- Bologna Central Station
- A Massacre to Remember - The Bologna Train Station Bombing Twenty-Five Years Later
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