Mario Amato (24 November 1937, in

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– 23 June 1980, in

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) was an Italian

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, assassinated in 1980 by NAR (''Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari'') members and .Arrestato l'estremista nero Ciavardini per una rapina a mano armata
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'', October 10, 2006 After the assassination of judge Vittorio Occorsio, responsible for investigations into the radical right in Italy, Attorney general Giovanni de Matteo appointed Mario Amato to resume Occorsio's investigations. Despite the dangers inherent in his investigation, Amato was denied the use of an armored car. At the news of Amato's death, neo-fascists

Valerio Fioravanti Giuseppe Valerio "Giusva" Fioravanti (born 28 March 1958) is an Italian former terrorist and actor, journalist and human rights activist, who, with Francesca Mambro, was a leading figure in a Far-right politics, far-right terrorism, terrorist gro ...

and

Francesca Mambro Francesca Mambro (born 25 April 1959) is an Italian activist and former terrorist, who was a leading member of the far-right Italian Armed Revolutionary Nuclei (NAR). She was arrested in Rome in March 1982 for complicity in the Bologna bombing o ...

celebrated the event, according to their own judicial declarations, eating

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and drinking

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. Fioravanti and Mambro, both NAR members, received life sentences in 1995 for the 1980 Bologna train-station bombing, while Luigi Ciavardini was condemned in 2007 to a 30-year prison term for his role in the same bombing.

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