Franco Gabrielli (born 13 February 1960) is an Italian police officer, prefect and civil servant. He has been director of

SISDE Servizio per le Informazioni e la Sicurezza Democratica (Intelligence and Democratic Security Service), was the domestic intelligence agency of Italy. With the reform of the Italian Intelligence Services approved on 1 August 2007, SISDE was replac ...

(the civil intelligence service) and

prefect Prefect (from the Latin ''praefectus'', substantive adjectival form of ''praeficere'': "put in front", meaning in charge) is a magisterial title of varying definition, but essentially refers to the leader of an administrative area. A prefect's ...

L'Aquila L'Aquila ( , ) is a city and ''comune'' in central Italy. It is the capital city of both the Abruzzo region and of the Province of L'Aquila. , it has a population of 70,967 inhabitants. Laid out within medieval walls on a hill in the wide valle ...

. In November 2010, he was named chief of the Italian

Protezione Civile The (Civil Protection), officially (Civil Protection Department), is the national body in Italy that deals with the prediction, prevention and management of emergency events. It was established in 1992 by , which was updated in 2012, and it is ...

, an office he held until 2015. In 2016, Gabrielli was named chief of the

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, holding the office until 2021.

Biography

Born at

Viareggio Viareggio () is a city and ''comune'' in northern Tuscany, Italy, on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea. With a population of over 62,000, it is the second largest city within the province of Lucca, after Lucca. It is known as a seaside resort as ...

, he graduated in

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. He subsequently worked for

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(the Italian anti-terrorist department) in

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, and later moved to the , an interforce directorate for police coordination on the national territory. In 2001 he became chief of DIGOS in

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and from 2003 he coordinated investigations on the New Red Brigades. In 2005 he became director of the Central Antiterrorism Service and, in the July of the same year, he contributed to the arrest of

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, responsible for the

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. Other investigations he directed were those on the

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Via dei Georgofili Massacre and the assassination of . On 16 December 2006 he was appointed as director of SISDE, a position he held until the service was disbanded the following year and replaced by AISI. Gabrielli remained as director the latter until 15 June 2008. On 6 April 2009 he was named

, a city in

Abruzzo Abruzzo (, , ; nap, label=Neapolitan language, Abruzzese Neapolitan, Abbrùzze , ''Abbrìzze'' or ''Abbrèzze'' ; nap, label=Sabino dialect, Aquilano, Abbrùzzu; #History, historically Abruzzi) is a Regions of Italy, region of Southern Italy wi ...

recently struck by a devastating earthquake. From 2009 to 2010 Gabrielli was vice-commissar for the emergency in Abruzzo, and later was vice-chief of the

department for technical and aerial matters. On 13 November 2010, he became national director of the Protezione Civile, succeeding

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after the latter had been involved in bribery scandals.

External links

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