Gelli's anti-democratic approach and his affiliations with Italian intelligence agencies have been recreated in the Bologna trial that recently finished.
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The trial before the Court of Assizes of Bologna was completed after little over three hours in the council chamber, stemming from the inquiry into the perpetrators of the 1980 massacre. They agreed to prosecute Paolo Bellini for life for the crime of massacre, former carabinieri captain Piergiorgio Segatel for six years for obstructing justice, and Domenico Catracchia for four years for false information given to the public prosecutor by an apartment manager in Rome's Viola neighbourhood.
The architecture of the bomb of August 2, 1980
The inquiry was split into two distinct parts. Beyond re-creating Paolo Bellini's position in the National Avant-garde, the magistrates of Bologna concentrated on re-creating the apparatus that planned, coordinated, funded, and executed the 2 August 1980 massacre. Only the neofascists of the Nar (the organisation headed by Licio Gelli in the 1970s and '80s), but a true chain of horror that began with Loggia P2, the occult influence group led by Gelli at the turn of the 70s and '80s. The association between Licio Gelli and several Tuscan neo-fascist terrorist groups had already been recreated in detail during the work of the parliamentary inquiry on P2 directed by Tina Anselmi".
Principles and financing of Bologna massacre
In one of the key discussions throughout the trial, Licio Gelli's so-called "Appunto Bologna," or "Bologna document," was brought up, which is a form of booklet that was confiscated from him on September 13, 1983, following his detention in Geneva. It is the most important piece of evidence submitted by the Public Prosecutor of Bologna in order to establish the source of the funds that would have funded the assault and the following diversion of the investigation.
The first page of the paper has the title Bologna as well as the account number of a Swiss bank account held by Licio Gelli, which was used to record certain financial transactions that occurred soon after the detonation of the bomb in the Bologna train station. However, the document was never forwarded to the Bolognese magistrates who were investigating the massacre, and it was instead buried for years in the procedural documents on the crack of Banco Ambrosiano, the Milan-based banking organisation headed by Roberto Calvi until 1982 and closely associated with the P2 lodge. There are three key transactions recorded in the manuscript booklet, with an aggregate value of $1.5 billion and beginning with the Peruvian branch of Banco Ambrosiano Andino, the banking group's Peruvian affiliate.
There was a second document obtained from Licio Gelli during the investigation into the Ambrosiano crack that was directly related to the 'Bologna' account. This document was also confiscated from Licio Gelli during the investigation into the Ambrosiano crack. It is a letter from the P2 chief confirming the transfer of funds to Marco Ceruti, a Florentine entrepreneur who is thought to be one of Gelli's closest associates and friends. In the weeks leading up to the massacre, Ceruti and Gelli each get a million dollars in cash from Gelli; they then go to Rome, where they meet up with Valerio Fioravanti and Francesca Mambro, who are on their way to Bologna, where they would take part in the assault on August 2nd. During the month of September, Ceruti personally gets a 4 million dollar deposit into his bank account, which, according to the thesis of the Public Prosecutor of Bologna, which was approved by the Corte di Assise, would be utilised for deception activities.
In addition to Licio Gelli and Umberto Ortolani (the financial brains of the group), the former director of the Viminale's private affairs office Federico Umberto D'Amato and the editor of de The Borghese Mario Tedeschi, both of whom are members of the P2 lodge, make up the Bolognese magistrates.
Paolo Bellini, the fifth man
When the Public Prosecutor's Office in Bologna sought the reopening of the investigations of Paolo Bellini, a right-wing exponent of Reggio Emilia who had previously been probed and acquitted during the inquiry back in the 1990s, the public prosecutor's office responded positively. After a series of memoirs were presented to the court by the families of those killed in the massacre, the new investigations were launched. The starting point for these new investigations was a video shot in super 8 by Harald Polzer, who happened to be a Swiss tourist who happened to be at the station at the time of the bomb explosion. An identifiable individual could be seen walking away warily from the camera in a few frames of the clip. His features were very comparable to those seen in Paolo Bellini's pictures from the 1980s.
According to the wife's testimony, she met her husband at approximately 9.30 on 2 August, an hour before the slaughter, and they departed together for their vacation in Trentino an hour later. An environmental interception of Bellini's wife's house was requested by the Attorney General in July 2019; in a discussion with her son, the lady said that "he was in Bologna." During her questioning of the lady, she acknowledged that she had lied about her alibi in order to prevent her husband's participation in the inquiry at the request of her father-in-law Aldo Bellini. During the trial, the lady identified her husband's face on the footage of August 2, 1980, without doubt.
Paolo Bellini is a pivotal player in the story. Investigations have shown that he is a member of the subversive right as well as the Stefano Delle Chiaie National Avant-garde organisation, according to the findings. His family then developed tight relationships with a number of MSI senators, who have continued to protect him throughout time. According to the reconstruction provided by the Public Prosecutor of Bologna, Bellini also benefited from the attention of the Italian secret services throughout his lifetime.
Source: TODAY