Overview

• On June 27, Rome’s public prosecutors filed a formal request to archive the Ustica massacre investigation, citing unanswered rogatory commissions.
• Their 450-page dossier presents new testimonies, Italian radar records and intercepted communications that point to French and American military exercises over the Tyrrhenian Sea when the DC-9 was downed.
• Daria Bonfietti, president of the victims’ relatives association, condemned the closure bid as judicial surrender and demanded retrieval of missing documents, including Admiral Fulvio Martini’s secret archives.
• President Sergio Mattarella and parliamentary leaders Lorenzo Fontana, Ignazio La Russa and Chiara Braga have publicly urged allied states to open archives and cooperate with further inquiries.
• A judge must decide by November 26 on the request, creating a deadline for lawmakers and the Italian government to pursue renewed international investigations.