On July 22, 1970, a train derailed near the Gioia Tauro train station in Calabria, killing six people.[1] At the time, Italian authorities suspected that a bomb had caused the crash and sent troops to guard Calabrian railways.[2] In the 1990s Judge Guido Salvini attributed the attack to National Vanguard.[3] In February 2001 a court in Palmi, Calabria found that Vito Silverini, Vincenzo Caracciolo, and Giuseppe Scarcella (all deceased at the time) had planted the bomb.[1]
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- ^ a b Ward, David.Contemporary Italian Narrative and 1970s Terrorism: Stranger than Fact. Springer. 2017. Page 12
- ^ Dickie, John. Blood Brotherhoods: A History of Italy's Three Mafias. PublicAffairs. 2014. page 405.
- ^ Cento Bull, Anna. Italian Neofascism: The Strategy of Tension and the Politics of Nonreconciliation. Bergahn Books. 2012. Page 39. "Avanguardia Nazionale, founded by Stefano Delle Chiaie in 1959, was not among the groups charged with the Piazza Fontana massacre in the recent retrial. However, its role in stragismo was reasserted in the sentenze-ordinanze produced by Judge Salvini with reference both to the bomb attacks carried out in Rome on 12 December 1969, which produced no victims, and to other massacres carried out in the South of Italy. The most important of these was a bomb attack carried out against the train Freccia del Sud at Gioia Tauro on 22 July 1970, which caused the death of six passengers ..."