From the founder of Lotta Continua Giorgio Pietrostefani, believed to be the instigator of the Calabresi murder, to Sergio Tornaghi, of the Walter Alasia column, and Narciso Manenti, sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder in Bergamo of the carabinieri officer Giuseppe Gurrieri. They were the leaders of the Years of Lead, those of terrorism and street executions, the most difficult for Milan and Italy, the ten former terrorists for whom extradition to Italy by France was today denied. Responsible for attacks and murders, which cannot be forgotten, beyond the Alps they have rebuilt a normal life, between work and family.
GIORGIO PIETROSTEFANI, 78 years old from Abruzzo as a promising young tennis player and executive positions in prestigious companies, is perhaps the best known name, because it is linked to one of the darkest pages in Italian history, that of the murder of commissioner Luigi Calabresi. Definitely convicted in Italy as the instigator of that crime, in France he had regular residence and has always worked, leading what his friend and former leader of Lotta Continua Adriano Sofri called “the discreet life of an old man and grandfather. “. He seems to have recently had some health problems, which also led to a liver transplant. In Paris he met Mario Calabresi, son of Commissioner Luigi, but the content of that face to face has never been revealed.
In France he found a house, a wife and a job as a gardener, NARCISO MANENTI64 years old, found guilty of the murder in Bergamo, in March 1979, of the police officer Giuseppe Gurrieri, 50, killed in front of his 14-year-old son in a doctor’s office he had to raid with the intent to kidnap a doctor who was service at the penitentiary institutes of Bergamo.
MARINA PETRELLA, the 67-year-old former Br responsible for the convictions of the murder of General Galvaligi, works today for an association that deals with issues related to the elderly. After marrying the Brigadier Luigi Novelli, she had a first daughter in prison in Italy and, after escaping to France, she had another born from a second union. Her first daughter fought for her mother’s amnesty, ever since in 2008 the then French President Nicolas Sarkozy stopped Petrella’s extradition to Italy for “humanitarian reasons”: at that time she was hospitalized in serious physical conditions.
They hang the same charges on ROBERTA CAPPELLI65 years old, engaged on the other side of the Alps as a support teacher for disabled children.
GIOVANNI ALIMONTI, 66 years old accused of the attempted murder of a deputy executive of Digos, worked as a waiter in a restaurant in Paris, but he also worked as a translator. He is a restaurateur MAURIZIO DI MARZIOformer Red Brigadier today in his sixties, whose name is linked to the attack on the manager of the provincial employment office of Rome Enzo Retrosi, in 1981. And, above all, to the attempted kidnapping of the deputy head of the Digos of the capital Nicola Simone on the day of Epiphany of 1982.
New life, which does not cancel what was done in youth, even for ENZO CALVITTI67 years old from Molise; SERGIO TORNAGHIsentenced to life imprisonment for armed gang and also protected by the so-called Mitterand doctrine; RAFFAELE VENTURA, 70 years old, last residence in Montreuil, in the × le-de-France region, convicted of moral complicity in the murder in Milan of the deputy brigadier Antonio Custra; And LUIGI BERGAMIN73 years old, the Venetian terrorist former CAP ideologist who conceived the murder of Marshal Santoro and participated in the execution of Sabbadin.
Source: Ansa
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