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Armed Revolutionary Nuclei
The Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari (), abbreviated NAR, was an Italian neo-fascist armed militant organization active during the Years of Lead from 1977 to November 1981. It committed over 100 murders in four years, and had planned to assassinate the politicians Francesco Cossiga, Gianfranco Fini and Adolfo Urso. The group maintained close links with the ''Banda della Magliana'', a Rome-based criminal organization, which provided such logistical support as lodging, false papers, weapons, and bombs to the NAR. In November 1981, it was discovered that the NAR hid weapons in the basements of the Health Ministry. The first trial against them sentenced 53 people in May 1985 on charges of terrorist activities. Ideology The late seventies were a time of political violence in the form of bombings, assassinations, and street warfare between rival militant factions. Young neo-fascists saw the state-sanctioned far-right political party MSI as betraying them, through inaction in the face of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valerio Fioravanti
Giuseppe Valerio Fioravanti (born 28 March 1958) is an Italian former terrorist and actor, who was a leading figure in the Far-right politics, far-right ''Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari'' (Armed Revolutionary Nuclei, or NAR). Fioravanti appeared in films and television at a young age, and was considered the most famous child in Italy. He and Francesca Mambro were fugitives wanted for terrorist offences by their early twenties, and went on the run as suspects in the Bologna bombing. Both were captured after gunfights with police, and later found guilty. They were sentenced to ten life sentences plus 250 years. Fioravanti was released from prison in 2009. Biography Background Fioravanti was born in Rovereto to a Roman family, his father was a television presenter. As a child actor, Fioravanti starred in a popular series of the 1960s, "La famiglia Benvenuti", with Enrico Maria Salerno and Valeria Valeri playing his parents. Fioravanti's younger brother Cristiano had joined a far rig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acca Larentia Killings
The Acca Larentia killings, also known in Italy as the Acca Larentia massacre (), were a double homicide that occurred in Rome on 7 January 1978. The attack was claimed by the self-described ' (Armed Nuclei for Territorial Counterpower). Members of militant far-left groups were charged but acquitted, and the culprits were never identified. Five teenagers of the Youth Front, the youth wing of the Italian Social Movement, a far-right and neo-fascist party, were ambushed while leaving the local party headquarters, and two of the teens (aged 18 and 19) were killed. The killings caused riots that same day, in which another MSI sympathiser was killed in clashes with police. Commemorations for the Acca Larentia killings take place each year and are controversial. As of 2024, opposition parties said such displays of pro-fascist sentiment were outlawed and demanded an investigation. Events Five members of the MSI were fired upon with automatic weapons by a group of five or six assa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franco Anselmi
Franco Anselmi (1 March 1956 – 6 March 1978) was an Italian neofascist terrorist who was active in the organization ''Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari'' (Armed Revolutionary Nuclei). He was killed during an attempt to rob a gun shop in Rome. Early life Franco Anselmi was born in Bologna on 1 March 1956, the youngest of three children. His family moved to Florence and then to Rome, where young Franco enrolled in the Kepler XI Liceo Scientifico. At school, he was already expressing nationalist views and sympathy for far-right parties and organizations. In 1972, during his fourth year at the school, he was attacked by a group of left-wing students. The blows put Anselmi in a coma for three months. Upon his release from medical care, he had suffered permanent damage to his eyes that significantly lowered his visual ability. To compensate for the lost school time, he enrolled at the Monsignor Egisto Tozzi Institute, in the Monteverde area of Rome, where, in 1975, he made the acquaintan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alessandro Alibrandi
Alessandro Alibrandi (12 June 1960 – 5 December 1981) was an Italian neofascist terrorist who was active in the organization ''Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari'' (Armed Revolutionary Nuclei). He was killed during a firefight with the police in Rome while attempting to steal their weapons. Early life and family Alessandro Alibrandi's father, Antonio Alibrandi, came from a wealthy family of Civitavecchia landowners. In his days as a law student in the ''Facoltà di Giurisprudenza'' (jurisprudence faculty), Antonio Alibrandi was a far-right activist. He entered the judiciary in December 1953 and rose to serve as investigating magistrate in Rome for fifteen years. Antonio and his wife had three children: Alessandro, born on 12 June 1960, Cristina, and Lorenzo. Alessandro enrolled in the ''Liceo Scientifico Statale John Fitzgerald Kennedy'' high school, in the Monteverde area. It is said that he sometimes used to walk around the ''Liceo'' corridors with a gun tucked over his trouser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesca Mambro
Francesca Mambro (born 25 April 1959) is an Italian activist and former terrorist, who was a leading member of the far-right Italian Armed Revolutionary Nuclei (NAR). She was arrested in Rome in March 1982 as a suspect in the Bologna bombing of August 1980. Mambro was tried and found guilty of the bombing, charges totalling 96 murders. She was sentenced to nine life sentences, or 84 years' imprisonment. Mambro was paroled in 2013 and her sentence expired five years later. Early life Mambro was born on 25 April 1959 in Chieti, the only daughter of four children (her brothers were Mariano, Mario and Italo). Mambro's father was a Marshal of Public Security. Her family moved to Rome when she was young, dwelling near Piazza Bologna. Mambro attended a magistral school. Far-right politics Mambro became politically active while attending the lyceum, and later joined the Italian Social Movement, first in its youth section and later graduating to the FUAN, where she worked at the organis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |