Naples. A plaque today commemorates the five victims of the terrorist attack on the USO (United States Organization) American military club in Naples, which occurred on April 14, 1988, by the “Japanese Red Army”.
A terrorist attack still without justice and thirty-three years later a plaque has been placed, together with two laurel wreaths, to remember the 5 victims and 15 injured.
During a brief ceremony, without official speeches, the massacre in via Calata San Marco, in the center of Naples, was remembered, where on April 14, 1988, around 20:15 p.m., a car bomb exploded, killing five people and injuring XNUMX. The initiative was attended by the prefect of Naples, Marco Valentini, the mayor Luigi De Magistris, the prosecutor Giovanni Melillo, the US consul general in Naples, Mary Avery, and the heads of the Police Force. “The city of Naples in eternal memory of the victims of Calata San Marco and of all the victims of terrorism,” reads the plaque.
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Il US Consulate he called the initiative “a sign of friendship between the United States and Italy. The commitment to bring to justice the person responsible for the attack continues – he added -. this is still an open wound. Attacks like this one do not only affect the Italian and American community, but their effects last for years. This is why 33 years later we remember this event”.
The investigations into the Calata San Marco attack “are extremely delicate and difficult, called to reconstruct personal stories, plots and scenarios that today seem distant and elusive but that we believe can instead be recomposed and deciphered”. Said the Public Prosecutor of Naples, Giovanni Melillo, speaking at the webinar organized by the Prefecture of Naples on the anniversary of the attack when the explosion of a device in front of the Uso Club, a US military club, caused the death of 5 people: the Neapolitans Antonio Gaezza, Assunta Capuano, Guido Scocozza and Maurizio Perrone, who happened to be there, and Angela Santos, a US Marine. The attack was the work of the Japanese Red Army. "The office I manage - Melillo explained - feels the value of the commitment to seize every useful effort to continue to do the work of truth and justice, an effort that today as then makes use of the collaboration of the State Police, as witnessed by the words of Lamberto Giannini who, as central director of anti-terrorism, over a year ago wanted to share the choice to give life and new life to the investigations. We count on the collaboration for the purposes of justice of other States, first of all the United States of America that has never closed the file opened with the killing of the marine Angela Santos".
The names of the 5 victims, the prosecutor stressed, "are finally engraved on a plaque that was discovered today at the site of the explosion. If there is a common trait among the countless variants of terrorism at an international level, it is the debasement of human life; in every declination of terrorism the victim is made insignificant, he only counts in the perspective that he dies in the way that is most useful to the political and ideological method of fear. Remembering the sacrifice of the victims of Calata San Marco - concluded Melillo - is to demonstrate the opposite, that is, that the city of Naples and our country do not forget this and the other massacres that have bloodied its recent history".
Article published on 14 April 2021 - 16:18
