THE MASSACRE OF PIAZZA FONTANA

What is the meaning of the massacre of Piazza Fontana in recent Italian history? First of all, a set of caesuras that deeply mark the relationship between citizens and the state. In particular, the emergence of radical political violence, together with the involvement of state apparatus in its implementation, and the spread of a strong feeling of distrust towards the ruling political class (increasingly implicated in the so called trame nere) and institutions. At that moment, a process of delegitimization starts, which primarily affected the ruling political class, but which in the second half of the Seventies will also increasingly impinge on the opposition parties, considered equally unable to stop the degradation of the country. A significant part of the public opinion will then begin to look at the most active and non-conformist sectors of the judiciary in the hope of shading light on what is obscure in the background of the Republic. It is a hope that represents an explicit request to the judiciary to play a role of substitution and control over a political world now considered closed in itself, not infrequently corrupt and privileged, and in any case far from the "real country".