Piazza Fontana bombing
Terrorist attack carried out in Milan in 1969 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Piazza Fontana bombing (Italian: Strage di Piazza Fontana) was a terrorist attack that occurred on 12 December 1969 when a bomb exploded at the headquarters of Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura (the National Agricultural Bank) in Piazza Fontana (near the Duomo) in Milan, Italy, killing 17 people and wounding 88. The same afternoon, another bomb exploded in a bank in Rome, and another was found unexploded in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.[1] The attack was carried out by the Third Position, neo-fascist paramilitary terrorist group Ordine Nuovo and possibly certain undetermined collaborators.
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Location | Piazza Fontana, Milan, Italy |
Date | 12 December 1969 16:45 (UTC+1) |
Target | Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura |
Attack type | Mass murder, bombing |
Weapons | Bomb |
Deaths | 17 |
Injured | 88 |
Perpetrators | Carlo Digilio (member of Ordine Nuovo), other unknown ON members |
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