• Piazza Fontana, Friday 12 December 1969 at 16.37. The massacre and the processes
  • 12 December 1969, 50 years ago the Piazza Fontana massacre
  • Milan, 17 panels with the names of the victims of the Piazza Fontana massacre
  • Piazza Fontana, 17 photos for 17 victims. In Milan, a photographic exhibition to commemorate the massacre

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12 December 2019A special session of the City Council with the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella arrived in Milan to remember fifty years after that 12 December 1969, the day of the Piazza Fontana massacre, in which they lost their lives following the explosion of a bomb at the Bank National Agriculture 17 people. The Council scheduled in the early afternoon precedes the procession that traditionally starts from Piazza della Scala and ends in Piazza Fontana, with the interventions of the authorities. In the courtroom the speeches of the president of the municipal council, Lamberto Bertolè, of the mayor of Milan, Giuseppe Sala, and of the representatives of the association of the families of the victims of the massacre who, after so many trials and a proven judicial truth, continue to look for answers that still they do not have. The judicial case ended in 2005, when the Cassation closed it with a general acquittal of the defendants examined by the investigation carried out in the 1990s by the work on the "Black Plots" of the then investigating judge Guido Salvini.

Hall: "Celebrating fiftieth in schools to not forget"
"December 12 is an important date for our Milan: we remember the tragedy of Piazza Fontana, that sad historical moment but also how the city reacted" said Mayor Sala in a video published by the Anci website, in a column dedicated to the fiftieth anniversary of the Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura massacre, together with a video testimony of the journalist Ferruccio De Bortoli. "This year the remembrance and reflection - underlines the mayor of Milan - are even more important: half a century has passed since that day. We will celebrate it with great attention, bringing the message to the schools, making our children and grandchildren they know what Piazza Fontana has been for us ".



Licia Pinelli: "Fifty years, an important step"
"This year is an important step, it is a turning point. Every word of the president will be an incentive to move forward for democracy. To speak of my husband Pino in a certain way is also a piece for democracy". After years of silence, in the 50/0 anniversary of the Piazza Fontana massacre, Licia Rognini, widow of Giuseppe Pinelli, returns to speak in an interview with Radio Popolare, explaining that she will participate today in the Milan city council, with the president of the Republic Giuseppe Mattarella.

An online archive dedicated to Pinelli is born
And just to remember the figure of Giuseppe Pinelli a site was created where the 5,000 articles collected by Licia Rognini between 1969 and 2015 on her husband will be archived, as well as testimonials, videos and documents: the project "Giuseppe Pinelli: a story only ours, a story of all "made by the Centro Studi Libertari with the collaboration of a scientific committee that includes Claudia and Silvia Pinelli, the two daughters of the anarchist railwayman who died on December 15th 1969. The purpose of the project, reads in a note, is to collect materials, documents, memories concerning the figure of Pinelli, his life and the circumstances of his death, and make them available on the site unastoria.archiviopinelli.it. The project also intends to "incorporate stimuli and signals, in order to build a living, dialogued, bottom-up, and non-ideological story".

To learn more: chronicle of a massacre that marked the beginning of the strategy of tension