The Palestinian ‘infiltrated’ in anti-Israel protests – which later degenerated into violent clashes – at La Sapienza University he had not been “only” arrested for the attempted murder of a manager of the embassy of the Arab Emirates and for the death of an Iranian girl. Towards him, in 1986, there was in fact also an arrest warrant for the formation and organization of an armed gang “at the conclusion of the investigations relating to the attack on 27 December 1985 at Fiumicino airport“. At least according to the documents of the investigation of the Italian judiciary on Palestinian terrorism which Adnkronos has come into possession of and which concern the Abu Nidal faction which acted, according to the judges, under the acronyms ‘Black September’, ‘Arab Revolutionary Brigades’, ‘Black Lebanon’, ‘Revolutionary Organization of Muslim Socialists’, ‘Arab Revolutionary Cells’ and ‘Urban Guerrilla Cells’. In the attack on the Roman airport, carried out by Abu Nidal’s group at the same time as that of Vienna, 13 people died and 76 were injured.
Othman Jihad Mohamd Issa Mahmood Abid El Hali, this is the name of the ‘infiltrator’, invited by the Sapienza collectives to talk about the war in Gaza on 16 April, was identified by the Digos and Forensics police (together with five exponents historians of Roman anarchy) engaged in investigations to reconstruct the responsibilities of the scuffles that broke out first under the Rectorate and then in front of the San Lorenzo police station. And it was on that occasion that it emerged that the 62-year-old, now also involved in anti-racist campaigns and representative of the Palestinian Arab Democratic Union, was arrested on 26 October 1984 for the attempted murder of the second secretary of the United Arab Emirates Embassy Mohamed Al Suweidi and the murder of the Iranian girl who was with him, Noushine Montasseri. Two years later – as Adnkronos discovered – his name ended up in the papers in the Italian judiciary’s investigation into Palestinian terrorism.
With him, 13 other members of Abu Nidal’s faction were sent arrest warrants, held responsible for terrorist acts in Italy and other European countries. The list also includes one of the Fiumicino attackers, arrested on the same day as the airport massacre, and a Jordanian “implicated – according to what we read in the document – in the attack on the Synagogue in Rome on 9 October 1982” which cost the life of a 2 year old boy, Stefano Gay Tachè. (by Silvia Mancinelli)
