Former Lazio regional comms chief and
ex rightist militant Marcello De Angelis was only saying what
many others think when he said those convicted of the 1980
Bologna train station bombing are innocent, his ex boss and
rightwing Lazio Governor Francesco Rocca said Friday.
Rocca said even some on the left like Green chief Angelo Bonelli
and Democratic Party MP Alessio D'Amato had said the same,
signing "a document in 1996 that said what De Angelis said".
De Angelis was forced to resign last month, maibly over his
contention that rightist NAR ex-militant members Francesca
Mambro, Giusva Frioravanti and Paolo Ciavardini, De Angelis's
brother in law, were innocent of the bombing that killed 85
people and wounded over 200.
"The mud on the Lazio region and on Marcello De Angelis was only
to cover the many things we are doing. Surely the phrase used
was institutionally ungrammatical but the substance of what
Marcello said, is what many think and are still asking to delve
into deeper", said Rocca, interviewed by the editor of rightwing
daily Il Tempo at the 'Itaca' initiative, referring to the
doubts raised by the now former head of communication of the
Lazio Region on the guilt of Fioravanti, Mambro and Ciavardini.
"The worst insults came from Bonelli and D'Amato who in '96,
after the Supreme Court, signed a document that said what De
Angelis said. I can't stand intellectual dishonesty."
De Angelis was also involved in two other controversies that
contributed to his resignation: a reference in a song by his
rightwing 'identity' rock band to Jews as a merchant race, and
his sending best wishes for the winter solstice on December 21
with a photo of a candle-holder like those used by Nazi war
criminal Heinrich Himmler, which were made in Auschwitz.
The Nazis wanted to replace Christmas with a celebration of the
solstice.
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