Bologna Massacre, 2nd August 1980. Operativity of the international picture: Middle-Eastern dynamics charting leads beyond the Strategy of Tension.

On 2nd August 1980, a huge explosion hits the waiting room of the second class of the station of the city of Bologna at 10,25 in the morning, together with the hall and the canopy by approximately thirty metres. Directly in front of the waiting area, two wagons of the Ancona-Chiasso train were also struck by the explosion on the first platform. In the following day, all national newspapers expressed the collective upset before this outrageous event, feebly faithful that human negligence could have been blamed for a gas explosion. The Italian citizenship already knew on its own that it was the peak of a violent wave hitting the country in those years and the Strategy of Tension inheritance brought trials’ inquiries to accuse extremist right-wing subversion. Notwithstanding, the following research envisages finding room for other plausible interpretations. The international dynamism of the years 1970s and 1980s, which embraced international terrorist groups’ operativity in a phenomenon known as publicity terrorism, is considered entitled to a more comprehensive analysis and the present ambition is to inspect other investigative routes to the Bologna Massacre, while taking into consideration the influence of one of the most impacting elements of that decade: Arab-Palestinian ethno-nationalism. Secular Arab-Palestinian terrorism left a major footprint on the international relations equilibrium since 1967, bringing its regional causes outside the Middle-Eastern borders through a coercive diplomacy that cannot be underestimated in one of the most tremendous terrorist events to ever strike Italian history.