Via dei Georgofili bombing
The Massacre of via dei Georgofili (Italian: Strage di via dei Georgofili) was a bomb attempt by mafia, in the night between 26 and 27 May 1993, in Florence, Italy.
The attempt was carried on with a Fiat Fiorino full of explosives, parked near the Torre dei Pulci, between the Uffizi and the Arno River. The edifice was the seat of the Accademia dei Georgofili. The large explosion caused the death of five people: Caterina Nencioni (50 days old), Nadia Nencioni (9 years old), Dario Capolicchio (22 years old), Angela Fiume (36 years old), Fabrizio Nencioni (39 years old); other 48 people were wounded. The tower and other buildings were destroyed and other damaged, including the Galleria degli Uffizi museum.
The massacre was ordered by the Corleonesi mafia clan, led by Totò Riina, in reply to the application of the article 41-bis law, by which jailed mafiosi were isolated and put under severe restrictive measures. The bombing was followed by other two: on July 27 in Rome, near the churches of St. John Lateran and San Giorgio al Velabro and at Milan, in via Palestro, where another car bomb killed five people. Later, pentito Gaspare Spatuzza declared to have repented for his participation in the attempts. In the same declarations, Spatuzza cited politicians Silvio Berlusconi and Marcello Dell'Utri as the new political associates of mafia at the time, after their traditional supporting parties, such as Democrazia Cristiana had been wiped out by the 1992 Mani Pulite scandal.[1]
References
- ^ Bravi, Alessandra. "Spatuzza: Firenze, perdono E cita Dell'Utri e il premier". Il Corriere della Sera. RCS.
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