Milano - Piazza Fontana. And the Terrorist Bomb Attack.

            The Postcard

A postally unused cartolina postale that was published by Cecami. The card has a divided back. 

The roof of the Duomo can be seen in the background.

The Piazza Fontana Bombing

The Piazza Fontana in Milan was the location of a terrorist attack that occurred on the 12th. December 1969 when a bomb exploded at the headquarters of Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura in the Piazza (near the Duomo).

The explosion happened at 16.45 on the third floor of the bank. Michelle Carlotto, 27, a clerk at the bank, said: 

"I was sitting at my desk behind the bank 
counter. I heard a blast, a bolt which stunned 
me.
In the smoke I saw a body fly from the public 
section above the counter and fall one metre 
away from me. I was shocked, I couldn't move."

Police said eight kilograms (18lbs) of explosives had been placed in an aluminium box with a slow-burning fuse attached to the device.

17 people were killed and 88 wounded. The same afternoon, three more bombs were detonated in Rome and Milan, and another was found unexploded. 

The attack was carried out by the far-right, neo-fascist paramilitary terrorist group Ordine Nuovo and, possibly, certain undetermined collaborators.

Giuseppe Pinelli

The bombing was initially attributed to Italian anarchists. After over 80 arrests were made, suspect Giuseppe Pinelli, an anarchist railway worker, died after falling from the fourth-floor window of the police station where he was being held. 

Serious discrepancies existed in the police account, which initially maintained that Pinelli had committed suicide by leaping from the window during a routine interrogation session. 

Three police officers who interrogated Pinelli, including Commissioner Luigi Calabresi, were put under investigation in 1971 for his death, but a later inquiry concluded that there were no wrongdoings regarding Pinelli's death. Public prosecutor Gerardo D'Ambrosio established that his fall had been caused by:

"Fainting and losing balance, tired after 
three days of intense questioning."

Despite being exonerated (he was not in the room when Pinelli fell), the far-left organisation Lotta Continua held Calabresi responsible for the death of Pinelli, and in 1972 he was murdered by left-wing militants in revenge.

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