Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari
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The Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari (NAR, Armed Revolutionary Nuclei) was an Italian neofascist terrorist organization active from 1977 to November 1981. It committed 33 murders in four years, and had projected to assassinate Francesco Cossiga, Gianfranco Fini and Adolfo Urso. An off-shoot of Terza Posizione, the group maintained close links with the Banda della Magliana criminal Roman organization. The Banda della Magliana provided it logistical support (lodging, false papers, weapons and bombs, etc.) In November 1981, it was discovered that the NAR hid weapons in the Health Minister's basements. The first trial against them sentenced 53 persons on May 2, 1985, on charges of terrorist activities.
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[edit] Members
The NAR were directed by Valerio Fioravanti (before a child actor in RAI), his little brother Cristiano Fioravanti, Dario Pedretti, Francesca Mambro and Alessandro Alibrandi. Other important members included: Luigi Ciavardini, Gilberto Cavallini, Stefano Soderini, Franco Anselmi, Giorgio Vale, Massimo Carminati, Claudio Bracci, Stefano Bracci, Mario Corsi detto "Marione", Stefano Tiraboschi, Lino Lai, Paolo Pizzonia, Patrizio Trochei, Walter Sordi, Marco Mario Massimi, Pasquale Belsito, Fiorenzo Trincanato, Andrea Vian. In 1980, NAR member Giorgio Vale became the leader of Terza Posizione, which was used as a front for the NAR.
[edit] 1980 Bologna massacre
NAR members Giusva Fioravanti and Francesca Mambro have been sentenced as responsible for the 1980 bombing of the Bologna main train station which killed 85 people. It is however noteworthy that Fioravanti and Mambro, despite acknowledging their participation to a significant number of killings, always denied their implication in the bombing. Therefore, in spite of a definitive tribunal sentence, their involvement is still matter of debate. Stefano Delle Chiaie is also thought to have been the ARN architect of the Bologna massacre.
[edit] Weapons cache in the Health Minister
According to Magliana pentito Maurizio Abbatino, NAR member Massimo Carminati was the only one who could freely access to the weapon cache discovered by Italian justice in November 1981. Massimo Carminati not only held close links with the Banda della Magliana, but also with SISMI secret agents, in particular General Pietro Musumeci and colonel Giuseppe Belmonte, a member of Propaganda Due masonic lodge.
[edit] Assassination of Mario Amato
NAR members Gilberto Cavallini and Luigi Ciavardini (sentenced in 2007 to a 30 years prison term for the 1980 Bologna bombings [1]) also assassinated on 23 June 1980 the magistrate Mario Amato, charged of investigations on the radical right, as well as Francesco Evangelista on May 28, 1980 [2].
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[edit] See also
- Banda della Magliana
- Strategy of tension
- Assassination of Carmine Pecorelli
- 1980 Bologna massacre
