Paolo Bellini, the former member of Avanguardia Nazionale, was attacked in UTA prison and definitively sentenced for complicity in the Bologna massacre of August 2, 1980, which caused the death of 85 people (including Sardinians Lidia Olla, Maria Fresu, and their three-year-old daughter Angela).
His lawyer, Antonio Capitella, announced the news. Bellini was reportedly attacked in recent days by a young Moroccan inmate with a sharpened toothbrush, which he had "transformed" into an improper weapon. The blow was aimed at his face, but Bellini apparently dodged it and was hit in the arm. He suffered a minor wound, which was treated in the prison infirmary.
"It's an attack that certainly worries us," beyond the minor wound, Capitella says. "He's in a prison for common inmates, but he should be in a penitentiary for collaborators." "We had just sent him a proxy to apply for a transfer. We'd like to transfer him to a prison for collaborators; the preferred location would be Campobasso. If they send him elsewhere, that's fine too, as long as it's for collaborators."
Bellini "doesn't live a common life out of prudence," he adds. "Over the years, his statements have sent about thirty people to life imprisonment..." Hence the urgent need for his lawyer to transfer him.
(Unioneonline)
