Bologna, 1 July 2025 – Massacre of August 2: the sentence of life imprisonment for Paolo Bellini is definitive. The judges of the sixth section of the Cassation who also reiterated the Six -year sentence For the former captain of the carabinieri Segatel piergiangio for misdirection and four years per Domenico Weather in Catchiaadministrator of some condominiums in via Gradoli in Rome, for false information to the public prosecutor.
The Cassation PG had asked for confirmation of the life imprisonment ‘in Toto’ for the Reggio Emilia Primula Paolo Belliniformer representative of national avant -garde, for the accusation of competition in the Bologna massacre that took place on 2 August 1980 and which caused the death of 85 people. “The evidentiary framework is solid – said the representative of the accusation, the deputy attorney general Antonio Balsamo, in his intervention in the classroom -. conclusions of the contested sentence are coherent” Segatel piergiangio for sidetracking and four years for Domenico Catracchiaadministrator of some condominiums in via Gradoli in Rome for false information to the public prosecutor.
Paolo Bellini definitively sentenced to life imprisonment
The 18 defense reasons
In their appeal, Capitella and Fiormonti had lined up 18 reasons for which, according to them, The Cassation had to cancel the sentence who confirmed the life sentence of their client, currently in prison in Cagliari. Among these, the rejection of the request to mention again as a witness to Bellini’s nephew, Daniela, and of the requests with which the two lawyers had requested an anthropometric expertise and “a phonic report on environmental interception in the home of Carlo Maria Maggi”, and “having omitted to ascertain the time marked on the clock worn by a lady resumed behind the anonymous believed, or to ascertain the time The images in which the anonymous believed Bellini appears “.
The mayor Lepore: “Thanks to the Bolognese who have never surrendered”
“With the ruling of today’s Court of Cassation, a sentence of one of the material authors of the massacre of 2 August is definitively confirmed, as well as the reconstruction regarding those who organized it and finished – reads a note of Matteo Lepore -. Names and surnames, acronyms and political motives of the instigators, sidetricators, bonds and subversive plots “.” This is the second judgment that has been final after that concerning another material author, Gilberto Cavallini. The story is now clear and is carved in the marble of justice. Now we know the truth and has been written on an indelible page of republican history. Now it’s up to politics and institutions to take note of these judgments in an integral way and kneel in front of the families of the victims. Italy needs to deal with their past and in particular with the years of the tension strategy, precisely to fully say a democracy. On behalf of the city of Bologna, the gold medal of the resistance to civil valor, I want to thank all the civil lawyers who have contributed to this extraordinary result in addition to the family members of the victims for their battle thanks to which today the Italians and the Italians know the truth. “I want to thank the judiciary and all the staff of Italian justice that served with discipline and honor our country in these long 45 years, to reach the important day today. A heartfelt thanks to the true servants of the state, almost always anonymous but fundamental, from the police to the staff of the public archives. Finally, thanks to civil society, the Italians and the Italians who have resisted, thanks to the Bolognese I have to say it with respect and emotion. Thanks to the Bolognese who have never surrendered. “
The previous sentence: life imprisonment on appeal
In the sentence with which the Court of Assizes of Appeal of Bologna has The sentence to life imprisonment confirmed Paolo Bellini’s former national avant -garde exponent for competition in the massacre of August 2, 1980 at the Bologna station “no motivation vice can be found”. In his indictment he wrote it – and he repeated it today 30 June in the classroom -, the deputy PG of the Cassation Antonio Balsamo, in view of the hearing scheduled precisely before the sixth criminal section of the Supreme Court. In addition to Bellini, there are also the sentences of the former carabinieri captain Piergiorgio Segatel (sentenced at first instance and on appeal to six years for sidetracking) and the former administrator of some condominiums in via Gradoli in Rome Domenico Catrachia (sentenced to four years in the first two degrees of judgment for false information to the public prosecutor).
Asking to reject the 18 reasons for appeal filed by Bellini’s defendersAntonio Capitella and Manfredo Fiormonti, – all deemed unfounded – Balm affirmedasking for the confirmation of the life imprisonment, that “the contested sentence indicated a series of specific facts of fact from which the participation of the accused in the realization of the crimes is deduced”, adding that “Bellini’s criminal liability for the massacre of the Bologna station”, which caused 85 deaths and over 200 wounded, “was affirmed by this sentence through a motivation that puts the principles developed by the most authoritative theorists of Guarantism. Criminal “, in particular” the fundamental lesson according to which the accusatory hypothesis must first of all be confirmed by a plurality of evidence “. For the Substitute PG, the method with which the tests were evaluated “led to ascertain the competition contribution of Bellini to the crimes for which it is a trial in absolutely correct terms on the logical and legal level”. All the test elements collectedcontinues Balsamo, “have been examined First individually and then unitary by the judges of merit “, and the reasoning developed by the contested sentence” is fully in line with the argumentative structure of the other pronunciations, which have become irrevocable, who affirmed the guilt of Valerio Fioravanti, Francesca Mambro, Luigi Ciavardini and Gilberto Cavallini for the massacre of Bologna “.
Also, we read in the indictment, the reconstruction of the facts “which supports their legal qualification made by the contested sentence finds further confirmation in the parts of the motivation relating to the relationships developed by the subversive terrorist groups, protagonists of the trace strategy, with the P2 lodge and the deviated sectors of the secret services”.
Therefore, he summarized the Substitute PG, “far from opting for a methodological approach of historiographic mold, The judges of merit have constantly subjectedin the evaluation of the tests, The accusatory thesis to the refutations constituted by the antagonistic reconstructions proposed by the defenses, which formed the subject of a meticulous and detailed analysis, thus reaching a procedural assessment made in absolute compliance with the fee of the ‘ivetre any reasonable doubt’ “. Defensive censorshipon the other hand, Balsamo wrote, “they seem clearly unsuitable to affect the coherent reconstruction of the facts carried out in the sentence, which carried out an in -depth examination of all the wide evidentiary material acquired during the debate education, developing an articulated motivational tissue that offers a complete response to all the deductions formulated by the applicant and highlights the absolute groundlessness of the ‘alternative tracks’ in a indisputable way. The conclusions achieved by the sentence, therefore claimed Balsamo, “coordinate the evidence collected during the first instance and second instance judgment in an absolutely logical way, highlighting the presence of a unique and unequivocal circumstantial chain”, as “appears evident, in light of the argumentative structure of the motivation of the judgment of merit”, also “the correctness of the negative evaluation expressed by the territorial court renewal renewal during the appeal process “. For these reasons, the Substitute PG of the Cassation asked to reject the 18 grounds of appeal presented by the lawyers of Bellini, who touch themes such as “the rejection of the request for recurring Daniela Bellini … the rejection of the request for anthropometric expertise and phonos expertise … the assessment of the time of resumption of tourist Harald Polzer relating to Bellini” and the statements of the ex -wife of the accused Maurizia. Bonini, who also recognized Bellini as the man filmed in the amateur video shot at the station, “on the arrival time in Rimini” of the same attributed on August 2, 1980. Finally, Balsamo also asked to reject, considering them unfounded or inadmissible, the four reasons for appeal proposed by the defense of Segatel and six in line by the defense of Catrachia.
The civil parties
“In the face of the appeal proposed by the defense of Paolo Bellini we will commit ourselves to counter -test to each ground of appeal with the usual commitment, dedicating all our efforts to achieve a positive result for the families of the victims and the territorial public bodies established civil party”. To say it, commenting on the appeal in the Court of Cassation filed in recent days by Antonio Capitella and Manfredo Fiormonti, lawyers of the former national avant -garde exponent condemned in the first and second degree to life imprisonment for competition in the massacre of 2 August 1980 at the Bologna station, the lawyers of the civil party Andrea Speranzoni, Alessandro Forti, Lisa Baravelli and Alessia Mertuzzi had been lawyers.
History
That summer morning the Bologna station is full of commuters and people who leave for the holidays. Nobody imagines what is about to happen. At 10.25 in the second class waiting room the weather stops forever. A suitcase left near the wall contains a high potential bomb. When the device explodes, the west wing of the station collapses. It is a massacre: 85 dead and over 200 injured. From the rubble are extracted. The bodies, to take them away there are not enough ambulances, buses are used. The pug comes out with an extraordinary edition. August 2, 1980 is a date that nobody, in the city, wants or can ever forget. The most serious attack ever in Italy in the post -war period is an open wound for which Bologna asks for justice. Only in recent years, after dozens of processes and investigations often polluted by sidetracks, the magistrates (with the help of the association of family members of the victims) have managed to reconstruct most of the scenario. The bombs were the neo -fascist terrorists of the Nar, Giusva Fioravanti and his wife Francesca Mambro, condemned in the 90s together with Luigi Ciavardini. The latest sentences then condemned another Nar, Gilberto Cavallini, and the former ‘Black Primula’ Paolo Bellini. The principal, on the other hand, was the head of the Masonic Loggia P2, Licio Gelli, helped by the deviated services. The Bologna massacre was the last great attack on the tension strategy. The defendants have always declared themselves innocent and the prosecutors over time have explored, and discarded, the so -called ‘Palestinian track’.
