Former premier and ex Constitutional
Court chief Giuliano Amato will be heard by the parliamentary
intelligence service oversight body COPASIR at 13:30 Tuesday
about his claims that the June 1980 Ustica air disaster that
killed 81 people was caused by a French missile intended for
late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
In a newspaper interview a month ago Amato said the most likely
explanation for the downing of the passenger plane of the
now-defunct Itavia line was that it got in the way of a French
missile aimed at a Libyan jet believed to be carrying Gaddafi.
Amato also suggested that Gaddafi was not aboard because he had
been tipped off to France's plans by then Socialist premier and
Amato mentor Bettino Craxi, who was later downed by the
Bribesville scandals and ended his days a fugitive from Italian
justice in Tunisia.
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