Life term for gangsters
NZPA-Reuter Florence Five Mafia gangsters were given life sentences vesterday for a 1984 Christmas train bomb attack on an Italian train which killed 16 people and injured more than 200. ~ The Florence court jailed a Naples Mafia chieftain, Giuseppe Misso, for life_ and a West German electronics expert, Friedrich Shaudinn, the only defendant tried in his absence, for 25 years for making the remote-controlled ynjer which detonated the bomb. A sixth man was jailed for 28 years. Two other Neapolitans were acquitted on the grounds of insufficient evidence. Prosecutors had asked for life sentences for all nine of the principal defendants who were charged with multiple murder, subversion, and carrying out a terrorist attack. The bomb ripped open the carriage of a train taking hundreds of Italians home for Christmas when it exploded in a tunnel between Florence and Bologna on December 23, 1984. During the five-month trial prosecutors alleged the attack was plotted by a group of Mafiosi with neo-Fascist connections to divert police attention from a crackdown on organised crime.
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Press, 27 February 1989, Page 12
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