Carlo Cicuttini

Carlo Cicuttini (1947 – 24 February 2010) was a former member of the neo-fascist grouping Ordine Nuovo, who was convicted in absentia in 1987 for his part in a bombing attack in Peteano di Sagrado, 1972. The leader of the Monfalcone section of the Italian Social Movement–National Right party, he was found to have made an anonymous call to the local Carabinieri Station, stating that a Fiat 500 with several bullet holes had been found abandoned. Four Carabinieri attended the scene and by opening the boot of the car triggered the bomb hidden inside it. Three of them were killed while one was seriously injured. Vincenzo Vinciguerra, a member of the neo-fascist Avanguardia Nazionale, was later tried and found guilty of planting the bomb.

Military officers helped Cicuttini escape to Spain, where he married and lived for two decades. He was arrested by Spanish police in 1982. Spain denied the Italian extradition request two times (in 1983 and 1986).[1] He was eventually captured on a business trip to France in 1998 and extradited back to Italy. Cicuttini supposedly had ties with the Guerrilleros de Cristo Rey and the Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberación.[2] The Italian secret service CESIS confirmed that Cicuttini had also taken part in the 1977 Atocha massacre, killing five people (including several lawyers), members of the Workers' Commissions trade-unions closely linked with the Spanish Communist Party. There has been speculation about him being part of an international network of far-right terrorists involved in Operation Gladio.[1]

Cicuttini died of cancer on 24 February 2010 at a Palmanova hospital.

References
  1. Un informe oficial italiano implica en el crimen de Atocha al 'ultra' Cicuttini, relacionado con Gladio, El País, December 2, 1990 (in Spanish)
  2. "Detenido un ultraderechista italiano que vivía en España". El Pais. 18 April 1998.

Bibliography
  • "Il Fascista Del Duemila". Kaos Edizioni. 30 April 1995.
  • "France extradites right-wing terrorist". Associated Press. 24 May 2000.
  • "France arrests Italian far-right extremist". Agence France Presse. 17 April 1998.
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