Milan police headquarters bombing

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At 11am on 17 May 1973, a hand grenade was thrown at Milan's police headquarters in Lombardy, Italy.^[1]^[2] It happened during a memorial ceremony there for police officer Luigi Calabresi, who had been shot dead in Milan a year earlier.^[2] Four civilians were killed by the blast and 45 other people were injured.^[1]

The attacker was Gianfranco Bertoli (30 April 1933 - 17 December 2000), who self-identified as an anarchist.^[2] He was arrested at the scene and in 1975 was convicted in relation to the attack and sentenced to life imprisonment.

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