A juvenile judge on Wednesday issued a
fresh indictment in the the 1974 rightist militant bombing in
Brescia's central Piazza della Loggia, which killed eight
people, for an Italian who was 17 at the time and has since
become a Swiss citizen.
Marco Toffaloni, 66, believed to be one of those who actually
set off the bomb on 28 May 1974, was sent to on trial on charges
of massacre.
Toffaloni currently lives in Switzerland and is a Swiss citizen.
His defence counsel had asked for a dimissal, arguing that the
case had timed out under the statute of limitations.
In another court, a preliminary hearing is underway against
another former rightist militant, Roberto Zorzi, who was an
adult at the time of the events, and who is also believed to be
one of the material perpetrators.
The government said on March 23 that it would stand as
plaintiff in the latest trial into the Piazza della Loggia
bombing that killed eight people and wounded 102 more during an
anti-fascist rally in the northern city of Brescia.
In 2015, a court of appeal in Milan issued a final life
sentence to rightist militant Ordine Nuovo (New Order) members
Carlo Maria Maggi and Maurizio Tramonte for ordering the
bombing, apparently closing one of the longest-running cases on
terrorism during Italy's 'years of lead' of rightist and leftist
terror.
Zorzi and Toffaloni are two other Ordine Nuovo-linked former
militants.
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