«A day in memory of the victims of terrorism», the appointment on May 9th in Tivoli, at 5.30 pm, in the Civic Museum in via della Carità 1 (Initiative in the cycle “Tivoli city of peace and dialogue conceived by Gianni Cipriani) boasts the extraordinary presence of Dr. Giovanni Tamburino, magistrate who never bowed to attempts, even of institutional origin, to deny, in practice, the subversive scope of neo-fascist organisations, even when the so-called “circles” or “cultural associations” – as was intended, for example, by Ordine Nuovo – did hear their voice through shocking attacks that caused hundreds and hundreds of victims. Attacks to which the country instead reacted proudly, managing instead to consolidate democracy.
A decidedly particular and significant aspect of the story is represented by the fact that the magistrates Giovanni Tamburino and Vittorio Occorsio were hired “as targets” by the black terrorist Pierluigi Concutelli, who wondered which of the two to assassinate first.
Thus, against both, against a seriously professional commitment, Pierluigi Concutelli takes action, takes up the «Ingram-Marietta» machine gun (serial number 2-2-000981) and decides that between the two Vittorio Occorsio must be punished as persecutor of the reconstituted party fascist even if with the nickname “New Order”.
At that time Concutelli regularly frequented Tivoli, a member of the “Circolo La Rochelle”, founded and managed by Paolo Signorelli, the mathematics teacher in the “Spallanzani” city scientific high school who was also one of the founders of “Ordine Nuovo”. The terrorists, for “territorial convenience” as will be seen in the trials against them, gathered in those premises, decide for Vittorio Occorsio, in whose assassination the people of Tiburti also directly participate. Sergio Calore, tenant of the apartment in Via dei Foraggi in Rome, home of Concutelli’s “fire group”, and Aldo Stefano Tisei, sutler also in the other attack against Mario Amato, the judge with holes in his shoes.
Everything happens in a context characterized from the beginning, by the massacre in Piazza Fontana, in Milan, on 12 December 1969, at the Banca Nazionale dell’Agricoltura (17 dead, ninety injured), the initial act of the subversive strategy that in our country expressed everywhere. A peculiarity, almost ignored, the crime that struck the BnA on December 12th was the first of five attacks carried out in 53 minutes that same afternoon in Rome and Milan.
Three in the capital, against the BnL (National Labor Bank) branch in via San Basilio, again in Milan, where an unexploded bomb was found in Piazza della Scala; conclusion in Rome, in Piazza Venezia, at the Altare della Patria. Effect, 16 injured.
The “strategy of tension” resumed on 28 May 1974 in Brescia, with the attack in Piazza della Loggia (8 dead, 102 injured); ending with the bombs at the Bologna station on 2 August 1980 (85 dead and over 200 injured). Massacres that the investigations have definitively sanctioned as having a “fascist origin”.
Illustrated context, fighting against terrorists, men in uniform or gown. A choice that many will pay with their lives.
The black terrorist Pierluigi Concutelli, the “captain” of Ordine Nuovo, among the “enemy magistrates” places, as mentioned, Giovanni Tamburino, investigating judge in Padua, guilty of having ordered the arrest of the founders of the “Rosa dei Venti”, the collateral organization to the X Mas of Prince Junio Valerio Borghese, also president of the MSI with secretary Giorgio Almirante.
At that moment, the “black prince” is looking for the support of the mafia families because he is busy preparing the “Immaculate Conception coup”. The judicial documents mention the meeting with the heads of the family at the home of Giuseppe “Pippo” Calderone in San Giovanni La Punta, in the province of Catania, summit summoned by Luciano Liggio. The object is to decide whether to participate in the coup, as requested by the “black prince”. Junio Valerio Borghese, (see: interrogation of the investigating judge of Palermo, 4 December 1984; deposition of the Parliamentary Anti-Mafia Commission, 16 November 1992; interrogation of the anti-mafia maxi-trial, 9 January 1996; international letter rogatory in Marseille, 24 June 1987 and 9 November 1987; sentence- order of the GI Guido Salvini of 18 March 1995, p. 210).
In the summit of San Giovanni La Punta, among the reasons for the discussion – whether or not to participate in the coup was central – was the compensation offered by the coup-plotting prince to the mafia families: if Cosa Nostra had ensured active participation, once the coup d’état was concluded, Junio Valerio Borghese would have intervened in the review of the trials against exponents of the criminal organization, involved in the preparation of the “Immaculate” coup, as well as president of the MSI, the Italian social movement. Of which Giorgio Almirante is secretary.
For his part, Pierluigi Concutelli, founder of the Mpon (New Order political movement), succeeded in his aim on 10 July 1976 by assassinating judge Vittorio Occorsio in Rome.
The claim is in the flyer distributed at the same time: «Bourgeois justice stops at life imprisonment, revolutionary justice goes further. The special tribunal of the Mpon judged Vittorio Occorsio and found him guilty of having, out of careerist opportunism, served the democratic dictatorship by persecuting the militants of Ordine Nuovo and the ideas of which they are bearers. Tens of years in prison were inflicted on its leaders…”.
In Padua, however, Giovanni Tamburino takes charge of the investigations started by his colleagues from La Spezia. Arrest warrants are therefore issued against Giampaolo Porta Casucci, a doctor who claims to be a Nazi, the provincial councilor of the MSI Giancarlo De Marchi and the former fascist hierarch Eugenio Rizzato. Subsequently, Sandro Rampazzo and Santo Sedona, arrested a few days earlier for a robbery, played their part in the same investigation. What the magistrate certainly does not expect is having to note that the Padua police headquarters has been in possession of documents seized after an inspection at Eugenio Rizzato’s house since 1969, but has never handed them over to the judiciary.
Somewhat compromising documents, as they prove the commitment of the “Rose of the Winds” in the preparation (and implementation) of a coup d’état to be carried out with the complicity of senior army officers in agreement with Junio Valerio Borghese.
For younger people, “The Rose of the Winds” suggests the title of a television series.
Considering what appears, Giovanni Tamburino accuses Colonel Amos Spiazzi, De Marchi, Rizzato, Cavallaro and Rampazzo (most of the leaders of the «Rosa dei venti», all already under arrest) of “political conspiracy by association”. Everything corresponds, until the moment in which General Antonio Alemanno, head of the Security Office of the SID (Defense Information Service), orders him to «do not involve others».
Tamburino’s reaction is contained in a letter sent to the President of the Republic Giovanni Leone: «A judicial investigation had revealed the existence of a secret organization to which army officers belonged; a member of the organization, Lieutenant Colonel Amos Spiazzi, claimed to have received orders to make contact with a gang of right-wing extremists and to finance it; the officer, to reveal the name of the person who had given him that order, had asked for the consent of a superior; a regular confrontation had taken place between the lieutenant colonel and a general, general Alemanno, delegated by the head of the Sid, general Miceli: general Alemanno, with two magistrates and the defense lawyer present, had ordered lieutenant colonel Spiazzi, also with conventional signs, not to reveal the name of the soldier who had given him that order.”
Tamburino also asks the Head of State «that a general of higher rank than that of Alemanno be designated and able to offer effective collaboration to justice, freeing Lieutenant Colonel Spiazzi from the bond of secrecy».
Another particular aspect of Giovanni Tamburino’s activity concerns the identification in the context of the «Rose of the winds» investigation of the Palermo prince Gianfranco Alliata di Montereale, a character who has been active for over half a century, starting from Salvatore Giuliano with the Portella della Ginestra massacre of 1 May 1947 up to Junio Valerio Borghese.
‘Behind all the plots’, in the book, judge Giovanni Tamburino retraces his investigations on the Rose of the Winds
Giovanni Tamburino, magistrate from 1970 to 2015, member in the 1980s of the Superior Council of the Judiciary chaired by Sandro Pertini, co-founder of the Movement for Justice of which Giovanni Falcone was a member, head of the penitentiary administration from 2012 to 2014, led the investigation which in 1974 highlighted the complicity between neo-fascist extremist groups, the secret service of the time and military circles. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Flamigni Archive. Per Donzelli is co-author of L’Italia delle stragi (edited by Angelo Ventrone, 2019).
