Bologna massacre
Sign in to saveterrorist bombing of the Central Station at Bologna, Italy
Key facts
- Location
- Bologna Centrale railway station , Italy
- Date
- 2 August 1980 , 10:25 (UTC+2)
- Attack type
- Bombing
- Weapon
- Time bomb
- Injured
- 200+
- Perpetrators
- Luigi Ciavardini, Valerio Fioravanti , and Francesca Mambro (members of the Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- mass murder
- Country
- Italy
- Located in
- Bologna
- Location
- Bologna Centrale railway station
- Image
- Stragedibologna-2.jpg
- Number of deaths
- 85
- Number of injured
- 200
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- armament
- improvised explosive device
- uses
- time bomb
- Commons category
- Neofascist bombing at Bologna (1980)
- point in time
- 1980-08-02
- number of perpetrators
- 5
- time period
- Years of Lead
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Encyclopedic overview
The Bologna massacre (Italian: strage di Bologna) was a terrorist bombing of the Bologna Centrale railway station in Bologna, Italy, on the morning of 2 August 1980, which killed 85 people and wounded over 200. Several members of the neo-fascist terrorist organization Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari (NAR, Armed Revolutionary Nuclei) were sentenced for the bombing, although the group denied involvement. Investigations in the 2020s, and following prosecutions from the Bologna Corte d'Assise, declared Licio Gelli, along with other members of the masonic lodge and secret society Propaganda Due, as the mastermind behind the massacre.
Events
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bologna massacre” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.