![]() ![]() He is going back home after a long day of work at the Supreme Court of Genoa. Smartly dressed in a blue Indian fabric suit, assistant district attorney Mario Sossi is on a bus. The sequence capturing Giovanni Floris murder Over the following years, for the whole decade and more, there will be many other violent terrorist attacks in Italy, defying dark, Machiavellian years in the history of the Bel Paese. Ironically, he was a taxidermist for a living. Mario Rossi, such an anonymous name for such an important act in the history of Italy. Their murder is considered another piece of the complex puzzle that is Italian political terrorism, which had started in 1969, with the bomb attack in Milanese square Piazza Fontana. One of the killers is called Mario Rossi and, together with his partner in crime, he is a member of a gang named XXII Ottobre (October 22nd). He has just been murdered with the complicity of an inside-man who works at that very same firm. ![]() Two men, wearing leather shoes, brown corduroy trousers and broad collar suede jackets, are riding the turquoise Lambretta.They are chased by the police as they have just killed and robbed a man, Alessandro Floris, a security guard at the Istituto Autonomo delle Case Popolari (a company superseding council housing) who had left his office with a suitcase full of money. The disputes of May ‘68 are still leaving their marks on Europe and Genoa, with student associations rioting and squatting universities. Slogans like ‘PROLETARIAN UNIONS’ or ‘OCCUPIED UNIVERSITY’ are written all over the walls. The Lambretta is registered GE112187 and is winding like a snake among the dirty walls of the Renaissance buildings of the city centre. Humidity rises from the dirty manholes, moistening the cobblestones of Via Bernardo Castello, in the centre of Genoa. ![]() It’s the end of March 1971 and it is still cold. The scooter is rocking out through the lanes of this industrial city, a winding labyrinth of prostitutes, Jewish jewelries, pushermen and thorny cafes. The music thumps lysergic between the alleys of a North Italian city, following the journey of a turquoise Lambretta. A hungry bass line is running ferociously, and a chorus is chanting something shamanic and unintelligible. In the first installment, Lorenzo Cibrario leads us through the maze-like alleys of Genoa among Lambretta-riding far-left terrorists and a mysterious Pakistani funk musician.Ī prog flute plays velocissimo over rapid percussion, while a tambourine keeps the time frantically. Italia 70 is a series of stories exploring the music that soundtracked the Years of Lead, the turbulent and overtly politicised times that left an indelible mark in Italian history between 1969 and the late 1980s. ![]()
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