Marco Affatigato, the neo-fascist activist suspected of involvement in an attack with 85 dead in Italy, was found dead in Nice
The attack in the Bologna train station, August 2, 1980. PHOTO: Video capture
Former figure of the extreme Italian right, Marco Affatigato, 68, was found dead in his home, last Friday, in Nice, France, confirmed prosecutor Damien Martinelli. He is a former Italian neophaascist activist, suspected of involving the attack in the Bologna station committed on August 2, 1980. A Capacan bag then exploded in a crowded waiting room, killing 85 people and injuring over 200, in one of the bloodiest attacks in the black era in Italy.
Figure of the extreme Italian right in the 1970s, within the political movement the new order, in the absence of sufficient evidence, Marco Affatigato has never been criminally prosecuted for this terrorist act, reports News.ro. But he was arrested in Nice, shortly after the attack, due to a robot portrait that sowed, especially since the man was already known to the authorities for his activism and because he had participated in the escape of another neophancist militant in the extremely unstable political context of Italy.
The French authorities have now opened an investigation into the causes of his death.
The man was discovered by his partner on Friday afternoon, hanged by the belt in the bathroom of his apartment on Rue de France, in the center of Nice, revealed police sources. Suicide is the most probable explanation, although an autopsy is provided “during the week,” the Prosecutor's Office said.
According to the Italian press, Marco Affatigato was “for a long time in the center of judicial and journalistic attention”, especially in relation to the Bologna attack, where his alleged role remains unclear for the moment. He told the daily Corriere della Sera that he would have collaborated with the French and American secret services towards the end of the Cold War. Legend or not, he later returned to the light of the reflectors for financial offenses and hijacking of funds. He was caught again in Nice and made more than eight years in prison on the other side of the border, before returning to the capital of the Azure Coast.
In 2022, on Italian television, he explained that he was afraid for his safety: his alleged links with the secret services would have aroused the desire to revenge his former comrades from the Italian fascist movement. Political movement The new order was abolished a few years after its creation.
Four members of the Nuclei Rivoluzionari (NAR) were sentenced to life imprisonment for committing the attack on the Bologna station, but the true instigators remain unknown and unpunished, more than 40 years after the tragedy.
