Among the people in the terrorist commando who physically carried out the Bologna station massacre on 2 August 1980 «there was without a shadow of a doubt» Paolo Bellini , whose presence in the station at the time of the attack «was aimed either at transporting, delivering and placing at least part of the explosive» or at providing material support for the action «in full awareness» that the device that killed 85 people would be placed in the waiting room, including three Sardinian women: Lidia Olla, Maria Fresu ( at the centre of what some say is a “mystery” ) and her little daughter Angela, just three years old.

This is how the Court of Appeal of Bologna identifies the role in the massacre of the former Avanguardia Nazionale for which the life sentence was confirmed on July 8.

Bellini, charged more than 40 years after the events, is considered the material executor in collaboration with the former NAR members definitively sentenced (Giusva Fioravanti, Francesca Mambro, Luigi Ciavardini), with Gilberto Cavallini (life sentence on appeal) and with Licio Gelli, Federico Umberto D'Amato, Mario Tedeschi and Umberto Ortolani, considered the instigators, financiers and organizers, but all investigated when they were already deceased.

"Without a shadow of a doubt", reiterates the Court (president Alberto Pederiali, drafting counsel Domenico Stigliano) in another passage of the more than 420 pages of motivation, Paolo Bellini "knew perfectly well that his contribution (consisting of either the transport and delivery - of all or part - of the explosive - or of logistical support to those who brought and placed the explosive) was not only 'facilitating' but actually decisive and essential in the realization, with the latter's awareness of the contribution received from Bellini being irrelevant ".

The video of the tourist

In the case of Bellini, according to the judges of the Bologna Court of Assizes of Appeal, "we are not dealing with a simply 'failed' alibi, but with an alibi that was purposely pre-arranged and apparently very solid and granite-like in that, several hours before the massacre, he had third parties far from Bologna deliver to him a little girl (his niece Daniela, ed.) with whom he then showed up to other people after the massacre, still far from Bologna . This alibi turned out to be false above all due to an absolutely fortuitous and unforeseeable circumstance, namely a video filmed by a foreign tourist as a family memento."

The video, a film shot in Super 8 by the German Harald Polzer, became known to the investigators, the Court explains, "only and exclusively because - some time after the massacre - the foreign tourist understood the possible importance of the film itself" . In fact, it is "proven, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the anonymous person believed to be Paolo Bellini was filmed by Polzer from aboard the train a few minutes after the explosion (which occurred at 10.25, ed.) and in any case certainly some time before 11.05, that is, before the carriages not damaged by the explosion were removed also to allow rescue operations on the second and third tracks". From the Polzer video and from the recognition made by Bellini's ex-wife, Maurizia Bonini, of the person portrayed in the video on the first track of the station, it is therefore "proven - the judges reiterate - that Paolo Bellini was at the Bologna station a few minutes before and a few minutes after the deadly explosion".

The role of Licio Gelli

As for the role of Licio Gelli, the "Venerable Master" of the P2 Masonic lodge, he is «the conscious financier of the Bologna massacre and this circumstance explains the motive for the slanderous and misleading activity he carried out, together with high-ranking State officials, precisely in relation to the Bologna massacre».

Gelli, the powerful head of the Reserved Affairs Office of the Ministry of the Interior Federico Umberto D'Amato, the entrepreneur Umberto Ortolani and the journalist Mario Tedeschi, all dead and no longer accountable, are considered in any case the instigators, financiers and organizers of the attack . The judges therefore recall that Gelli, together with Pietro Musumeci, Giuseppe Belmonte and Francesco Pazienza, was definitively convicted for the crime of slander in relation to the work of misleading the investigations into the massacre, "a misdirection that had the precise purpose of preventing the investigations from revealing his personal involvement, in addition to the involvement of very high-ranking State officials, in the massacre".

(Online Union)

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