Bologna Mayor Matteo Lepore on
Tuesday awarded the Turrita d'argento prize to Paolo Bolognesi,
Daria Bonifetti and Rosanna Rossi Zecchi, the historic leaders
of the associations representing the families of victims of
three of the most painful moments in Italian and local history -
the 1980 Bologna station bombing, the Ustica air crash and the
Uno Bianca massacres between the end of the 1980s and 1994.
The August 2 1980 bombing of the Bologna train station killed 85
people.
Staged by right-wing extremists, it was Italy's worst terrorist
attack since World War II.
On 27 June 1980, a Bologna-Palermo flight by the now-defunct
Itavia airline fell into the Tyrrhenian Sea between the islands
of Ponza and Ustica, killing all 81 people on board.
The Uno Bianca criminal group in the Emilia Romagna region
around Bologna and in the Marche killed 24 people and wounded
over 100 others between 1987 and 1994.
Members of the centre-right opposition deserted the ceremony
held at the municipal council of Bologna.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED © Copyright ANSA
