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of the train and exploded at 01:23. Under its own momentum, the train reached the end of the tunnel. The effects of the explosion and subsequent fire would have been even more terrible had the train remained inside the confined space of the tunnel. Former
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Aurelio Fianchini, a leftist militant who had just escaped from prison, told the press that the bomb was placed in the Italicus Express by Mario Tuti's subversive commando unit: Piero Malentacchi (who had planted the explosive at the
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20 July 1983: Luciano Franci, Piero Malentacchi, Margherita Luddi and Tuti are acquitted for lack of evidence; Francesco Sgrò (janitor at the University of Rome) is convicted of slander.
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On 24 January 1975 Mario Tuti escaped from arrest by killing police sergeant Leonardo Falco and corporal Giovanni Ceravolo, and seriously injuring corporal Arturo Rocca. He fled to
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At the time, police and intelligence knew that Tuti was a subversive. A few months after the Italicus bombing, a woman declared to judge Mario Marsili—son-in-law of
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18 December 1986: Franci and Tuti are sentenced to life imprisonment; Malentacchi and Luddi are acquitted for lack of evidence; Sgrò is again convicted of slander.
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4 April 1991: Franci and Tuti are acquitted for lack of evidence; Malentacchi and Luddi are acquitted at the request of the public prosecutor.
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on which, during the early hours of 4 August 1974, a bomb exploded, killing 12 people and injuring 48. The train was traveling from Rome to
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24 March 1992: The final judgment of the Court of Cassation confirms the acquittals of Franci and Tuti.
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16 December 1987: The Court of Cassation declares the appeal process must be redone.
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had been on the train on 3 August but disembarked before the train left Rome.
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1974 terror attack in San Benedetto Val di Sambro, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
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San Benedetto Val di Sambro-Castiglione dei Pepoli railway station
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tunnel under the Apennines. The bomb had been placed in the fifth
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about 45 minutes earlier, it was approaching the end of the long
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San Benedetto Val di Sambro
Emilia-Romagna
Italy
Coordinates
44°12′29″N 11°11′23″E / 44.20806°N 11.18972°E / 44.20806; 11.18972
Bombing
Improvised explosive device
Ordine Nero
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Years of Lead (Italy)
Battle of Valle Giulia
1968 movement
Hot Autumn
Murder of Antonio Annaruma
Piazza Fontana bombing
Defenestration of Giuseppe Pinelli
Reggio revolt
Golpe Borghese
Murder of Luigi Calabresi
Peteano massacre
1972 bombings
Primavalle fire
Milan police headquarters bombing
Piazza della Loggia bombing
Italicus Express bombing
Murder of Sergio Ramelli
Murder of Mikis Mantakas

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