Former Premier Giuliano Amato told the
foreign press in Rome Tuesday that he had never said he had the
truth in saying the 1980 Ustica disaster that killed 81 was
probably caused by a French missile seeking Libyan leader
Muammar Gaddafi, who was not in the target plane that was missed
due to a tip off from late Socialist premier Bettino Craxi.
"In the interview (with Rome daily La Repubblica) I never said I
was giving the truth on Ustica," when a DC9 from the now defunct
Itavia airline plunged into the sea near the island off Sicily.
"I said I was putting forth the hypothesis deemed the most
credible among those formulated, stressing I didn't had the
truth to offer, but my aim was to provoke if possible an
approach to the truth.
"And I didn't tell (French President Emmanuel) Macron to
apologise but to deal with the thing: if he shows it is
unfounded Ok, if not he must apologise".
Amato also told the foreign press that a pilot might reveal the
truth; that politics can still do a lot to seek the truth; and
that he had not spoken to Premier Giorgia Meloni on the case.
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