The 2nd of August

The 2^nd of August 1980 was my fourth birthday.

It took a long time before I came to realize that, on that day, 85 people had died, and more than 200 had been injured, victims of what was called political terrorism.

I believe this has been one of the darkest pages of the already dark Italian history. A vile attack against common people.

Try to think about what it must have been the train station in Bologna on that day. Tourists were leaving, for the Adriatic coast or for the south. Bologna was, and still is, a crossroad for the entire peninsula. There were whole families, grandparents and grandkids, couples, and friends. Surely most people were happy and relieved for the long-awaited summer holidays.

But at 10:25 a bomb with 200 kg of explosives blew up. The lives of hundreds of people were to be changed forever.

The direct culprits of all this were two neo-fascists. But, besides them, condemns were issued against Licio Gelli, Francesco Pazienza, Pietro Musumeci, and Giuseppe Belmonte for throwing the investigations off track. They were all members of the infamous freemason lodge P2, the last three were even secret agents of the State.

They tried to throw the investigations off track by making up a Palestinian plot. A shameful action to hide the responsibilities of the P2 and the Movimento Sociale Italiano (father of Alleanza Nazionale).

Nowadays the PDL has put in practice most of Gelli’s program, wiretaps have shown the new face of the P2, and it’s fundamental to remember the responsibilities of these people.