Editor
18th June 2002, 21:09
The Mysterious Death of Michele Landi
Italy: Is the intelligence service behind the murder of the government official Biagi?
by Gerhard Feldbauer
At the end of March the Italian trade unions had called for a mass demonstration in Rome against the democracy and welfare cut-offs of the government of Silvio Berlusconi. When the government official Marco Biagi was shot four days before in Bologna, allegedly by new "red brigades for communism", the protests were threatened with failure. Berlusconi and his minister of the interior Scajola immediately accused the trade unions of compliancy. The demonstations and an announced general strike would be on the same side as the terror of the new red brigades. However, the organizers persisted and the demonstration turned out,with three million participants,just like the following general strike aimed as a loud challenge to the government.
The murder of Biagi appears now more and more as a provocation by the inner intelligence SISDE. The facts: As proof for the alleged murder of the government official by the red brigades a 26 page declaration of confession was submitted. The public prosecutor's office assigned the IT expert Michele Landi to determine the identity of the alleged confesser's e-mail through computer research. This obviously revealed with his investigations completely different authors than the red brigades. After the submission of his report Landi was found dead on the 5th of April in his appartment in Rome. Although the courts medical investigation did not exclude foreign effect, the ministry of the Interior immediately announced "suicide by hanging". Several people testified that Landi had denied the authenticity of the "confession" of the red brigades and had spoken of "important discoveries", one of the main suspects revealed. Furthermore he had told friends that he was being shadowed.
After the family of the deceased had complained of the murder to the public prosecutor's office, further results of the investigation shook the suicide allegation. Investigators found that the corpse did not come from the rope found in the appartment with which Landi was said to have hung himself. Furthermore hair was found, which neither came from the deceased,nor his friends. The public prosecutor Matassa,who was responsible for the investigation, explained plainly that the intelligence service produced the suicide of Landi, because he became a safety risk with his investigation results about the alleged left-wing extremist terror scene. Thereupon Minister of the interior stated on TV it still had to be considered a suicide and demanded the media be"gagged".
The threat showed effect. The media was silent for several weeks,apart from exceptions like the Liberazione or IL Manifesto. The writer Umberto Eco stated that press censorship prevails and the head of the government "manipulates the media".
In the middle of May further investigation results became public, which disproved the suicide allegation of the Minister of the Interior. Thus injuries showed up on the neck of the victim caused by foreign effect. In addition Landi was at the time of death under such a heavy alcohol effect that his own hanging was almost completely impossible.The most serious indication though: A secret file with his research results about the murder of Biagi had been deleted from his computer.
First published by German newspaper Junge Welt (http://www.jungewelt.de).
http://www.jungewelt.de/2002/06-18/004.php
Translated using Babelfish (http://babelfish.altavista.com), revised, edited by Noly Lopez.
(Edited by Editor at 3:21 am on June 19, 2002)
(Edited by Editor at 3:25 am on June 19, 2002)edit SoS
(Edited by Editor at 8:48 am on June 19, 2002)
Italy: Is the intelligence service behind the murder of the government official Biagi?
by Gerhard Feldbauer
At the end of March the Italian trade unions had called for a mass demonstration in Rome against the democracy and welfare cut-offs of the government of Silvio Berlusconi. When the government official Marco Biagi was shot four days before in Bologna, allegedly by new "red brigades for communism", the protests were threatened with failure. Berlusconi and his minister of the interior Scajola immediately accused the trade unions of compliancy. The demonstations and an announced general strike would be on the same side as the terror of the new red brigades. However, the organizers persisted and the demonstration turned out,with three million participants,just like the following general strike aimed as a loud challenge to the government.
The murder of Biagi appears now more and more as a provocation by the inner intelligence SISDE. The facts: As proof for the alleged murder of the government official by the red brigades a 26 page declaration of confession was submitted. The public prosecutor's office assigned the IT expert Michele Landi to determine the identity of the alleged confesser's e-mail through computer research. This obviously revealed with his investigations completely different authors than the red brigades. After the submission of his report Landi was found dead on the 5th of April in his appartment in Rome. Although the courts medical investigation did not exclude foreign effect, the ministry of the Interior immediately announced "suicide by hanging". Several people testified that Landi had denied the authenticity of the "confession" of the red brigades and had spoken of "important discoveries", one of the main suspects revealed. Furthermore he had told friends that he was being shadowed.
After the family of the deceased had complained of the murder to the public prosecutor's office, further results of the investigation shook the suicide allegation. Investigators found that the corpse did not come from the rope found in the appartment with which Landi was said to have hung himself. Furthermore hair was found, which neither came from the deceased,nor his friends. The public prosecutor Matassa,who was responsible for the investigation, explained plainly that the intelligence service produced the suicide of Landi, because he became a safety risk with his investigation results about the alleged left-wing extremist terror scene. Thereupon Minister of the interior stated on TV it still had to be considered a suicide and demanded the media be"gagged".
The threat showed effect. The media was silent for several weeks,apart from exceptions like the Liberazione or IL Manifesto. The writer Umberto Eco stated that press censorship prevails and the head of the government "manipulates the media".
In the middle of May further investigation results became public, which disproved the suicide allegation of the Minister of the Interior. Thus injuries showed up on the neck of the victim caused by foreign effect. In addition Landi was at the time of death under such a heavy alcohol effect that his own hanging was almost completely impossible.The most serious indication though: A secret file with his research results about the murder of Biagi had been deleted from his computer.
First published by German newspaper Junge Welt (http://www.jungewelt.de).
http://www.jungewelt.de/2002/06-18/004.php
Translated using Babelfish (http://babelfish.altavista.com), revised, edited by Noly Lopez.
(Edited by Editor at 3:21 am on June 19, 2002)
(Edited by Editor at 3:25 am on June 19, 2002)edit SoS
(Edited by Editor at 8:48 am on June 19, 2002)