Italy’s former prime minister Giuliano Amato claims that France’s military mistakenly shot down an Italian passenger plane off Sicily in 1980. The actual target: the Libyan dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi. The case exacerbates tensions between Paris and Rome.
Giuliano Amato, 85, is a deserving statesman. The socialist and native of Turin has twice been prime minister and has served his country for many years as a constitutional judge. He can look back on a fulfilling public life. But there is something else that bothers the thin man with the pointed face: an unsolved case that dates back 43 years and which Amato, like many of his compatriots, still hasn’t let go of. A kind of national trauma of Italy.
Source: Stern
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