Among the people in the terrorist commando who physically carried out the Bologna station massacre on 2 August 1980 «there was without a shadow of a doubt» Paolo Bellini , whose presence in the station at the time of the attack «was aimed either at transporting, delivering and placing at least part of the explosive» or at providing material support for the action «in full awareness» that the device that killed 85 people would be placed in the waiting room, including three Sardinian women: Lidia Olla, Maria Fresu ( at the centre of what some say is a “mystery” ) and her little daughter Angela, just three years old.
This is how the Court of Appeal of Bologna identifies the role in the massacre of the former Avanguardia Nazionale for which the life sentence was confirmed on July 8.
Bellini, charged more than 40 years after the events, is considered the material executor in collaboration with the former NAR members definitively sentenced (Giusva Fioravanti, Francesca Mambro, Luigi Ciavardini), with Gilberto Cavallini (life sentence on appeal) and with Licio Gelli, Federico Umberto D'Amato, Mario Tedeschi and Umberto Ortolani, considered the instigators, financiers and organizers, but all investigated when they were already deceased.
"Without a shadow of a doubt", reiterates the Court (president Alberto Pederiali, drafting counsel Domenico Stigliano) in another passage of the more than 420 pages of motivation, Paolo Bellini "knew perfectly well that his contribution (consisting of either the transport and delivery - of all or part - of the explosive - or of logistical support to those who brought and placed the explosive) was not only 'facilitating' but actually decisive and essential in the realization, with the latter's awareness of the contribution received from Bellini being irrelevant ".
