On 6th July, the Italian Supreme Court ruled to requalifythe double attack against the Carabinieri cadet School of Fossano that took place in June 2006 (two nighttime explosions that caused no injuries), from slaughter against public safety (Article 422 of the Italian code), to slaughter against the security of the State (Article 285 of the code).
The original offence, qualified as slaughter, carries a penalty of no less than 15 years’ imprisonment, whereas the punishment for the new offence is life imprisonment. It seems paradoxical that the most serious offence envisaged by our legal system was deemed to exist in this case, and not in the many very serious events that have occurred in Italy in recent decades, from the massacres of Piazza Fontana in Milan and Bologna train station and the Capaci bombing, to the via D'Amelio and via dei Georgofili bombings etc.
