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09:36, August 03, 2007 |
Italians marched Thursday in Bologna, a city in north-central Italy, to commemorate the victims of the 1980 bombing in its train station which left 85 people dead and some 200 injured, local media reported.
Relatives of the victims took part in the march from the central Piazza Nettuno to the station where Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi made an unannounced appearance.
Prodi, who is a native of Bologna, said in a brief speech that the massacre was carried out by terrorists "who tried to destroy democracy in this nation and who were defeated on moral, cultural and political levels."
In a message to Bologna Mayor Sergio Cofferati, House Speaker Fausto Bertinotti stressed the need to uncover the full truth behind the station bombing because "a nation which cannot look back at its past with a full understanding cannot plan for its future," said the reports.
The Bologna station massacre is believed to have been the joint work of neofascists, members of the secret services and the subversive right-wing Propaganda-Due Masonic lodge, which was outlawed in 1982, according to the reports.
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