Former premier and ex Constitutional
Court chief Giuliano Amato testified for two hours Tuesday to
the parliamentary intelligence service oversight body COPASIR
about his claims that the June 1980 Ustica air disaster that
killed 81 people was caused by a French missile meant for late
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
In a newspaper interview a month ago Amato said the most likely
explanation for the downing of the DC-9 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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