Part IV Judicial Responses, 33 Realizing the Right to Redress for Victims of Terrorist Attacks

On 2 August 1980, at 10.25, a bomb exploded in the second class waiting room of the central train station in Bologna, Italy, killing 85 persons and wounding 207, the majority of whom were permanently disabled. Italians and foreigners were both among the victims.1 Lengthy judicial proceedings subsequently determined that the main responsibility for planting the bomb in the train station lay with three persons affiliated with the ‘Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari’—a terrorist organization of fascist denomination—namely Giusva Fioravanti, Francesca Mambro, and Luigi...