Mambro, Fioravanti, Ciavardini, Cavallini and Bellini: the convicted mass murderers and their links with the MSI

Paolo Bolognesi reiterated it once again from the stage, this time referring to the list of names "finally convicted" for the August 2nd bombing: "It is a fact that all the Italian mass murderers passed through the Italian Social Movement, a party founded in 1946 by members of the Italian Social Republic." These are the ties that those convicted as perpetrators—Valerio Fioravanti, Francesca Mambro, Luigi Ciavardini, Gilberto Cavallini, and Paolo Bellini—had with the Italian Social Movement, founded by veterans of the Italian Social Republic and members of the fascist regime.

Valerio Fioravanti and Francesca Mambro

The future terrorist leaders of the NAR began their political activity in the MSI headquarters on Via Siena in Rome, in the 1970s.

Luigi Ciavardini

In early 1978, at the age of 16, he attended the Italian Social Movement branch. He then joined the Student Struggle Movement, a precursor to Terza Posizione, which he would later join and befriend Nanni De Angelis and Giorgio Vale. He participated in several fund-raising heists, especially with the latter, Ciavardini, before joining the armed struggle with the NAR.

Paul Bellini

His father, Aldo Bellini, was an officer in the Folgore, nostalgic for the Fascist period. He knew the magistrate Ugo Sisti, the prosecutor of Bologna, and maintained close relationships with politicians from the Italian Social Movement and intelligence officers. Paolo Bellini joined Avanguardia Nazionale in 1971 and, according to his testimony, frequented Avanguardia Nazionale members from Parma and Massa Carrara as an "infiltrator" because his father, Aldo, Senator Franco Mariani of the MSI, and Giorgio Almirante wanted to be informed "about right-wing extremism."

Gilberto Cavallini

Born in Milan into a fascist family, Cavallini was one of the founders of the Boys SAN, the first Inter ultras group, before abandoning his life in the fans' stands to dedicate himself to political activism[4] in the right-wing ranks, first in Giovane Italia and then in the Italian Social Movement, declaring himself a fascist. Before joining the NAR, he was involved in fights and beatings against left-wing militants.