A deadly bomb. A death in a police station. A secret kept from the public.
In 1969, an explosion in Milan killed 17 people. The police accused a group of anarchists, but the story was not that simple.
In part one of this three-part mini-series on "Gli Anni Di Piombo" (The Years of Lead), we look at how this tragedy started one of the darkest times in Italian history.
- Italy modernising fast, but divided and tense.
- 12 December 1969: bomb at Milan’s Piazza Fontana.
- Seventeen dead, eighty-eight injured; shock across Italy.
- Coordinated Rome bombs; no claim; anarchists blamed.
- Anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli dies after police questioning; controversy.
- Pietro Valpreda arrested; weak evidence; years before acquittal.
- Evidence pointed to far-right group Ordine Nuovo.
- Suspected cover-ups by police and secret services.
- Strategy of tension; suspected Gladio links; extent unclear.
- Impact: fear, ordinary victims, start of the Years of Lead.
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