It was cold and there was a thick fog in Milan at 16.37 on 12 December 1969, when a bomb caused 17 deaths and over 80 wounded in the National Bank of Agriculture in Piazza Fontana in Milan, where negotiations were underway agricultural and livestock market. The 50th anniversary of the massacre this year, in the presence of the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella , will be celebrated, while the dense fog of that day continued to envelop all the seven processes that were celebrated (three investigations) and that did not have never brought to the ascertainment of the personal responsibility of executors, principals and detinators. A judicial affair that 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 who recently also published a book with the emblematic title: "The curse of Piazza Fontana '. A" curse "that began immediately after the attack, with the bad idea of making another unexploded device shine in the headquarters of the Italian commercial bank in Piazza della Scala, dispersing elements useful for the investigations. It was not triggered and was contained in a black Mosbach & Gruber bag which, with Rhula watches, will become a trademark of the local stragismo. Immediately investigations on the anarchist track, the arrest of the dancer Pietro Valpreda , hastily or maliciously identified as the author of the massacre and who will be acquitted in 1985 after a long judicial ordeal, and on 15 December the death of the anarch ico Giuseppe Pinelli precipitated from the fourth floor of the questor during an interrogation. Some time later the black track with the investigations on elements of the New Order of Padua and the indictment of Giovanni Ventura and the publisher 'nazimaoista' Franco Freda. Then the shock, with the decision to transfer the trial from Milan to Rome, from Rome again to the Lombard capital and finally to Catanzaro.
Result: both Valpreda and the neo-fascists were acquitted. In the 90s it seems to glimpse a light in the tunnel where the investigations had sunk. The first repentants came forward: the new Order's arms maker in Triveneto, Carlo Digilio and Martino Siciliano, a militant from Mestre. They tell in detail of preparatory meetings for the attacks culminating with that of Piazza Fontana, they provide information on explosives, devices, on the Paduan and Mestrine cells of On and on the Milanese of the La Fenice group. The inquiry leads to a trial in 2000. The ordinovist Delfo Zorzi, now a wealthy fashion entrepreneur in Japan, accused the ON regent, the Venetian doctor Carlo Maria Maggi, Giancarlo Rognoni, head of the Milanese group La Fenice, Roberto Tringali, accused of aiding and Digilio himself. At the end, life imprisonment for Zorzi, Maggi and Rognoni, while for Digilio the prescription is taken. Three years after the cold shower for the victims' relatives. The acquittals are on appeal. Digilio is not considered credible and, in the blackberries, there was also the bad story of the retraction of Siciliano, 'bought' by Zorzi.
May 3, 2005 again the end word. The defendants are definitively acquitted even if the judges of the Supreme Court, in the reasons, confirm the picture emerged from the investigations and how the attacks were the work of the new Order. What's more, the Court believes that a "positive" response should be given to the judgment of responsibility of Freda and Ventura for "the Piazza Fontana massacre and the other attacks committed that day". However, Freda and Ventura cannot be judged because they have already been tried and definitively acquitted for the same facts.
A further mockery, such as the payment of court costs for the relatives of the victims. Decision 'remedied' by the Presidency of the Council that had been a civil party and had made the payment.