Overview

• President Sergio Mattarella branded the 1980 station bombing as a “spietata strategia eversiva neofascista” aimed at undermining Italy’s constitutional values.
• Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni condemned the brutality of the attack without mentioning its confirmed fascist roots, prompting criticism from victims’ representatives.
• Paolo Bolognesi, head of the families’ association, accused officials of condemning the bombing’s “fruit” while failing to uproot its ideological source.
• Education Minister Anna Maria Bernini decried parts of the ceremony as a “comiziaccio politico,” deepening the divide between the government and victims’ groups.
• The government renewed its pledge to declassify and transfer Cold War–era documents to the Central State Archive in pursuit of full transparency.