Massacre of Ustica and revelations of Giuliano Amato: why now?

Today the Ustica massacre of 1980 is still in the heart of information, 43 years ago. According to the former trusted man of Bettino Craxi, of which he was deputy and "Doctor Slim", former prime minister twice, former vice president of the Constitutional Court, at the age of 85 he claimed that the Itavia DC9 crashed into the sea near the island on June 27, 1980, with 77 passengers and 4 crew on board, was allegedly shot down by a French missile, all with US approval.

The target of the missile would have been a MIG which would have carried the Libyan leader Gaddafi who, warned in some way by Craxi, would not have gotten on board. A politician on board a fighter is a bit strange, let's leave out the details. Gaddafi was seen as too friendly to the Palestinians by the US and as a nuisance to French-speaking Africa by Paris.

In the end Giuliano Amato launches an invitation to the French president Macron to finally reveal the truth because, too young to be linked to the events of 43 years ago, he would have no connection with the affair and therefore his hands are free.

Why is this curious confession, coming from a powerful man introduced into the secrets of the Italian Republic over the last half century, conquering the front pages of newspapers today with this revelation?

An old story.

French involvement in the tragedy is anything but new. Already in the eighties there had been rumors. In 2007, the former president of the Republic and former prime minister at the time of the tragedy, Francesco Cossiga, clearly stated that the French had shot down the Itavia with a plane from the aircraft carrier Clemenceau. In 2016, the same French TV Canal + spoke clearly of this hypothesis. The fact that the French were behind Gaddafi's fall 30 years after Itavia should say a lot about Paris' involvement.

The famous Libyan MIG 23 fighter that fell on the Sila, in theory 15 days after the Italy incident, but according to witnesses that fell on the same day, immediately raised doubts about an air battle that would take place that day over the southern Tyrrhenian Sea, with so much of interceptions of telephone calls communications between the Italian radar centers.

So what Amato would have revealed is all but a novelty. So why bring this story up now, by the way without bringing any additional documents. In all these years has he failed to collect a rare track or definitive recording?

Why talk about it now?

We recall that there is a civil condemnation from the defense and interior ministries, which were forced to repay the victims of the massacre with 100 million for not having been able to ascertain the truth, despite having the means.

We recall that Amato, as vice president of the Council of the Cossiga government, was informed of the facts by the secret services, but Cossiga spoke about it 16 years ago. What has Amato done in these years? Why didn't he intervene directly at the time, confirming everything and therefore giving more weight to the Pickaxe's claims?

I personally believe that this very late release, let's say about forty years, is nothing more than a way to get back to the center of games, to get people talking about themselves. To think that Macron will take the initiative and reveal the secrets of his predecessors, however remote, seems fanciful to me: we do not know the events of the Third Republic a hundred years ago, we think that the French will reveal a burning secret like this, when Macron still has to lean to the Soialist and Gaullist families present in parliament?

Anyway, nothing new under the sun, so let's move on to something else.

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