Via dei Georgofili bombing
Via dei Georgofili bombing | |
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Explosives | |
Deaths | 5 |
Injured | 48 |
Perpetrators | Sicilian Mafia |
The via dei Georgofili bombing (Italian: Strage di via dei Georgofili) was a terrorist attack carried out by the Sicilian Mafia in the very early morning on 27 May 1993 outside the Uffizi in Florence, Italy.
The via dei Georgofili bombing was carried out with a
After Corleonesi Mafia clan boss Salvatore Riina was captured in January 1993, the mafia began a campaign of bombing Italian cultural heritage sites. Numerous terror attacks, including this one, were ordered as warning to its members to not turn state's witness, but also in response for the Italian state overruling of the Article 41-bis prison regime.[3]
In June 1998, pentito Gaspare Spatuzza received a life sentence in relation to the bombing.[4][5][6]
In 2000, Riina, Giuseppe Graviano, Leoluca Bagarella and Bernardo Provenzano were sentenced to life imprisonment for ordering the massacre.[7]
References
- ^ "Quel boato che squarciò il silenzio della notte: Firenze ricorda la Strage dei Georgofili". la Repubblica (in Italian). 2018-05-26. Retrieved 2020-08-07.
- ISBN 9783791347158.
- ^ The Olive Tree of Peace: The massacre in via dei Georgofili Archived 14 August 2014 at the Wayback Machine, The Florentine, 24 May 2012)
- Il Corriere della Sera. RCS.
- ^ (in Italian) Cronologia Centro Siciliano di Documentazione "Giuseppe Impastato"
- ^ Si pente il sicario di don Puglisi, La Repubblica, 15 October 2008.
- ^ Gianluca Monastra (22 January 2000). "Ergastolo a Totò Riina per la strage" (in Italian). la Repubblica. Archived from the original on 8 April 2014.
External links
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