The defense of Paolo Bellini, the former member of Avanguardia Nazionale sentenced in the first instance to life imprisonment for the Bologna massacre, claims to have found proof that the man filmed in the station on the morning of the attack, 2 August 1980, and identified by his ex-wife Maurizia Bonini as the former terrorist from Reggio Emilia, he would actually be another person. The lawyers Antonio Capitella and Manfredo Fiormonti have in fact identified a frame in support of their thesis extrapolated from the video shot at the station by the tourist Harald Polzer.
At the opening of the appeal process, the lawyer Capitella, speaking to journalists, explained that among the new elements brought by the defense, “there is the frame of the video that we extracted from the analogue copy that we made at the State Archives, from which it emerges that the watch of a lady who was behind the alleged Bellini shows a time that could be 1.15pm or 12.15pm, incompatible with his presence in Rimini at 11.30am as his wife says”. Hence the belief that “the presence of the anonymous person” at the Bologna station on the first platform at 1.15 pm, based on the time marked on the anonymous lady’s watch, deprives the recognition made by Maurizia Bonini of any probative value.
In light of this, Capitella and Fiormonti will ask the Court to acquire the film kept at the State Archives of Bologna to extract an analogue copy and then carry out a technical assessment to ascertain the time marked on the watch worn on the left arm by the anonymous lady.
“As a panel of civil parties representing the families of the victims, in view of the photogram filed by the Bellini defence, we reiterate that we are absolutely calm and today at the hearing we would have been ready to provide adequate and effective responses, aimed at dismantling the alleged element of evidence”, say the lawyers Andrea Speranzoni, Alessandro Forti, Lisa Baravelli and Alessia Merluzzi, defenders of the families of the victims of the massacre of 2 August 1980. “The treatment of the question – explain the lawyers – was however reserved by the Court of Assizes of Bologna’s appeal to the hearing on 7 February. For now, we do not believe it is appropriate to anticipate the arguments that we already have and that we will discuss extensively in the cross-examination in a week’s time, in the courtroom. However, we are aware of our argumentative strength and rationality”.
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