Piazza Fontana bombing

Piazza Fontana bombing
Part of the Years of Lead
Milan's Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura building in December 2007
LocationPiazza Fontana, Milan, Italy
Date12 December 1969
16:45 (UTC+1)
TargetBanca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura
Attack type
Mass murder, bombing
WeaponsBomb
Deaths17
Injured88
Perpetrators New Order

The Piazza Fontana bombing (Italian: Strage di Piazza Fontana) was a terrorist attack that occurred on 12 December 1969 when a bomb exploded at the headquarters of Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura (the National Agricultural Bank) in Piazza Fontana (near the Duomo) in Milan, Italy, killing 17 people and wounding 88. The same afternoon, another bomb exploded in a bank in Rome, and another was found unexploded in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.[1] The attack was carried out by the Third Position, neo-fascist paramilitary terrorist group Ordine Nuovo, and possibly undetermined collaborators.

  1. ^ "Accidental Death of an Anarchist" (PDF).