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    Fausto Tinelli (1959–1978) and Lorenzo "Iaio" Iannucci (1959–1978) were two Italian left-wing activists who were shot dead after a street confrontation...
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    Berardi was killed by the Red Brigades. On 16 March in Milan, the killing of Fausto and Iaio occurred. Nobody has ever been found responsible for the double...
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    Ferrandi, a militant of Prima Linea nicknamed Coniglio (Rabbit), later said that when the news of the kidnapping and the killing of the bodyguards spread...
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    Piazza Fontana bombing (category Attacks on buildings and structures in 1969)
    headquarters of Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura (the National Agricultural Bank) in Piazza Fontana (near the Duomo) in Milan, Italy, killing 17 people and wounding...
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  • Vincenzo Vinciguerra (category Italian people convicted of murdering police officers)
    member of the Avanguardia Nazionale ("National Vanguard") and Ordine Nuovo ("New Order"). He is currently serving a life-sentence for the murder of three...
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  • Golpe Borghese (category 1970s coups d'état and coup attempts)
    night of 7 or 8 December 1970. It was named after Junio Valerio Borghese, wartime commander of the Decima Flottiglia MAS and a hero in the eyes of many...
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    in 1975. In 1999, he confessed to this killing adding that he had also killed a number of people on behalf of mafia bosses. But he denied any involvement...
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    Hot Autumn (category 1969 labor disputes and strikes)
    (Italian: Autunno caldo) of 1969–70 is a term used for a series of large strikes in the factories and industrial centers of Northern Italy, in which workers...
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    Piazza della Loggia bombing (category Years of Lead (Italy))
    place on the morning of 28 May 1974, in Brescia, Italy during an anti-fascist protest. The terrorist attack killed eight people and wounded 102. The bomb...
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    in 1956. He was a classmate of General Norman Schwarzkopf. He went to the Armor School at Fort Knox, Kentucky, for basic and advanced training in armored...
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    beginning of the so called "strategy of tension". Piazza Fontana bombing: on December 12, 1969, a bomb exploded in Milan, killing seventeen people and injuring...
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    Giuseppe Pinelli (category Deaths related to the Years of Lead (Italy))
    Italian railroad worker and anarchist, who died while being detained by the Polizia di Stato in 1969. Pinelli was a member of the Milan-based anarchist...
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  • far-right and neo-fascist party, were ambushed while leaving the local party headquarters, and two of the teens (aged 18 and 19) were killed. The killings caused...
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  • Battle of Valle Giulia (battaglia di Valle Giulia) is the conventional name for a clash between Italian militants (left-wing as well as right-wing) and the...
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    Luigi Calabresi (category Italian police officers killed in the line of duty)
    Calabresi's killing, the day also when the case of Giorgio Pietrostefani's extradition request was heard in a Paris court, Calabresi's widow Gemma and their...
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  • Antonio Annarumma (category Deaths related to the Years of Lead (Italy))
    was killed at the age of 22 while serving during a demonstration organized by the Italian (Marxist–Leninist) Communist Party and from the Student Movement...
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  • Reggio revolt (category Riots and civil disorder in Italy)
    train station in Calabria, killing six people. At the time, Italian authorities suspected that a bomb had caused the crash and sent troops to guard Calabrian...
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  • Leamon Hunt (category Deaths related to the Years of Lead (Italy))
    Director General of the international peacekeeping force, Multinational Force and Observers (MFO). He was assassinated by members of the Red Brigades...
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  • Mikis Mantakas (category Deaths related to the Years of Lead (Italy))
    volatility. 2013 Neo Irakleio Golden Dawn office shooting Acca Larentia killings Sergio Ramelli [it] Primavalle fire "Quel 16 aprile del '73 a Primavalle:...
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    Milan police headquarters bombing (category Years of Lead (Italy))
    anti‐communist and neo‐fascist organizations, such as New Order, linked to the Operation Gladio stay behind network as part of the strategy of tension. He...
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  • Calabrian city of Gioia Tauro, killing 6 persons and wounding 136. The Gioia Tauro massacre was linked to the revolt. In 1993, a former member of the 'Ndrangheta...
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    Primavalle fire (category Attacks on buildings and structures in Italy)
    Marino, killing him instantly. The perpetrators were subsequently identified as members of the neofascist Milanese group La Fenice ("The Phoenix"), and brought...
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    Italicus Express bombing (category Railway accidents and incidents in Italy)
    was a night train of the Ferrovie dello Stato on which, during the early hours of 4 August 1974, a bomb exploded, killing 12 people and injuring 48. The...
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    Peteano massacre (category Years of Lead (Italy))
    perpetrators were Vincenzo Vinciguerra, Carlo Cicuttini and Ivano Boccaccio, all members of Ordine Nuovo, a far-right organisation. Boccaccio was killed...
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  • Taylor Sparrow, Institute for Anarchist Studies, 2011 "L'omicidio di Fausto e Iaio, 40 anni fa". Il Post (in Italian). 18 March 2018. Retrieved 29 May...
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