Bologna massacre, principals’ trial: life imprisonment for Bellini as fifth perpetrator

Paolo Bellini, aka ‘Primula nera’, former member of Avant-garde national who confessed to the murder of the militant of Lotta Continua Alceste Campanile, was sentenced to life imprisonment for the massacre at the Bologna station on 2 August 1980, which cost the life of 85 people and caused 200 injuries. Therefore, according to the first degree sentence issued by the judges of the Court of Assizes of Bologna, he would be the fifth perpetrator of the massacre, together with the former Nar Valerio Fioravanti, Francesca Mambro and Luigi Ciavardini, definitively condemned (the first two to life imprisonment, the third at 30 years), and after the first degree life sentence for the ‘fourth Nar’, Gilberto Cavallini. All five – including Bellini – have always declared themselves innocent. Bellini, 69, had already been investigated for the massacre at the beginning of the 1980s and acquitted in 1992, but in March 2019 the public prosecutor of Bologna (which had initiated the investigation into the alleged principals, organizers and financiers of the massacre , namely Licio Gelli, Umberto Ortolani, Federico Umberto D’Amato and Mario Tedeschi, all deceased) requested the revocation of the acquittal by entering it in the register of suspects (together with the former head of the Sisde of Padua Quintino Spella, and the captain of the carabinieri Piergiorgio Segatel, both accused of misleading, as well as Domenico Catracchia, former administrator of some condominiums in via Gradoli in Rome, accused of false information to the prosecutor). Among others, what emerged from Bellini was what for the Bolognese magistrates are certainly conclusive elements: a frame of an amateur film, shot by a tourist in Bologna on the morning of 2 August 1980, in which it would be seen what for the investigators is the face of the accused; an environmental interception in which the former head of the New Order, Carlo Maria Maggi, affirms that an airman (Bellini was a pilot) who would have carried the bomb took part in the massacre; finally, as emerged in the Palermo trial on the so-called State-Mafia “negotiation” (in which Bellini was heard as a collaborator of justice), the relations between the accused and Sergio Picciafuoco, close to the extreme right and present at the Bologna station 2 August 1980 (Picciafuoco was acquitted of the accusation of having taken part in the attack). On February 15, 2021, Bellini was indicted together with Segatel and Catracchia (Spella died in January 2021, while the venerable of P2 Gelli, the banker Ortolani, the former prefect and former head of the Reserved Affairs office of the Ministry of the Interior D’Amato and the former senator of the MSI Tedeschi). “I feel like Sacco and Vanzetti,” said Bellini, arriving at the court on the day of the first hearing. The ‘turning point’ of the trial has a date, 21 July 2021, the day in which Bellini’s ex-wife Maurizia Bonini, after viewing the amateur video of the tourist, said: “He looks like my husband, it’s Paolo, because he has a dimple here, his hair is further back but it’s still him. “Bellini continued to proclaim himself a stranger to the massacre:” I have nothing to do “with the attack, he argued at the hearing speaking of” infamous crime “, for then add: “In the most absolute way it is not me in the film of the foreign tourist.” Bellini claimed that the night between 1 and 2 August 1980 he was in hospital in Parma with his brother, and that in the morning he would leave Scandiano for Rimini with her niece Daniela. For Bellini, therefore, the ex-wife “lied” after having “changed her mind” (the woman had previously stated that on the morning of 2 August 1980 her husband was in Rimini). “between Bellini and the man portrayed in the film, was then also supported by the consultants defense. In his indictment, the pg Umberto Palma argued, on the contrary, that Bellini was “present in the station in Bologna on August 2”, that “he was a killer of the National Avant-garde”, a killer “protected by the secret services, starting from the murder of Campanile “. The National Avant-garde, the pg underlined, “cannot have been kept out of the massacre, it cannot be made extraneous to this attack, which coagulated various subversive forces”. Avanguardia Nazionale, he commented, is “the link between the financial-organizational top of the Bologna massacre” and Bellini, “who was an operative militant of the National Avant-garde, at least in the mid-seventies”. Furthermore, according to the pg, Bellini’s ex-wife “deserves a license of absolute credibility” for having “demolished the alibi of her ex-husband, which she herself had helped to create”. The magistrates, therefore, are certain that they have “probative boulders” in their hands against Bellini, for whom a sentence of life imprisonment with daytime solitary confinement for 3 years was sought on 25 February (6 years for Segatel and 3 years and 6 months for Catracchia). In his harangue, the lawyer Antonio Capitella, one of Bellini’s defenders, attempted to dismantle the accusations: “We – he argued – think that Bellini is here, partly for the video, but also because this trial required a living defendant to keep the prosecution in place, otherwise there would have been an archiving “. And then: “What is there in the process that makes Bellini’s path cross with those of Fioravanti, Cavallini, Mambro and Ciavardini? Nothing”. As for the version of Bellini’s ex-wife, the lawyer added: “Maurizia Bonini’s statements” are “somewhat constructed, someone convinced Mrs. Maurizia that Paolo had prepared the alibi bringing his niece, but this presupposes that knew that the attack was on August 2. Yet Cavallini did not know, Ciavardini did not know, how could Bellini know? “. On the principals and the alleged financing for the massacre, the lawyer instead emphasized: “There are no elements to say that the massacre was financed and that the money of the Banco Ambrosiano Andino went to the executors, because there are no intermediate steps”. For Bellini’s second defender, Manfredo Fiormonti, “in 50 years there has been no evidence of a connection between Bellini and the Services. His belonging to the services and the coverage he would have enjoyed are mere conjecture”. Finally, the lawyer himself focused on the video that would immortalize Bellini in Bologna on 2 August: “The video in the station was built with cuts and gluing. The fact that in the video there is the station clock stopped at 10.13 does not mean nothing, because there is no date. Also, at what time was the scene shooting anonymously shot? Is there smoke? No. How long had it been since the explosion? And then are you sure it was 2 August?”.

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