Declassification ‘a duty to victims’

P(see previous) (ANSA) – Rome, April 22 – Italian Premier Matteo Renzi on Tuesday signed an order to declassify secret case files on long-held Italian mysteries including a 1980 airplane crash near the Sicilian island of Ustica, the 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing in Milan that killed 17 people and sparked the ‘Years of Lead’, and the 1980 Bologna train station bombing that killed 85 and wounded more than 200. Both bombings have spawned streams of conspiracy theories focusing on the alleged involvement of Italian and probably foreign secret services in suspected cover-ups of acts of terror from militant left- and right-wing groups during the postwar period. “Today we declassified documents on some of the darkest pages of Italian history. This was our duty towards the relatives of the victims of these incidents, which still remain as a dark stain on our collective memory,” Renzi wrote on Facebook.BR”An enormous set of documents will soon be available to researchers, media, and to all citizens. They will be transferred to State archives, significantly speeding up procedures that can take up to 40 years under current regulations”.BR/P
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