Italy remembers victims of deadly terrorist attack.

Italian president Sergio Mattarella on Friday recalled the victims of the Bologna Massacre in which 85 people were killed and 200 were injured on 2 August 1980.

In a statement on the 44th anniversary of the atrocity, Mattarella expressed solidarity with the families of the victims of the most deadly attack in Italy since the end of world war two. 

The no-warning terror attack occurred at Bologna Centrale railway station during the so-called Anni di Piombo, or Years of Lead, a period of social turmoil and political violence in Italy from the late 1960s until the 1980s.

Sono le 10.25 del #2agosto del 1980, un sabato qualunque, sulla via per le vacanze: una bomba esplode alla stazione di #Bologna, facendo 85 morti e 200 feriti. Il documentario d'archivio realizzato da #RaiTeche "La bomba" è su #RaiPlay: https://t.co/6lQPTEzekn. pic.twitter.com/RqwwlpMovZ

— Rai Storia (@RaiStoria) August 2, 2024

Five members of far-right terrorist groups were subsequently convicted in relation to the Bologna massacre, while investigations also uncovered alleged links to Italy's secret services.

Describing it as an "incurable wound" and "one of the most tragic events in the history of our republic", Mattarella said that Bologna had been "the theatre of a ruthless neo-fascist subversive strategy nourished by complicity hidden in subversive cliques that attempted to attack the freedom won by Italians."

The clock at Bologna Centrale railway station is fixed permanently at 10.25 to commemorate the exact moment of the actrocity.