Ex-Italian PM: France Likely Downed Passenger Plane Trying to Kill Libya’s Gaddafi
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Sputnik – 02.09.2023
ROME – Former Italian Prime Minister Giuliano Amato has alleged that France and its US allies were likely responsible for the mysterious passenger plane crash off Sicily in June 1980, and that the incident was the result of a plot to assassinate late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
“The most credible version is about the responsibility of the French Air Force with the complicity of the Americans and those who participated in the air war over our skies on the evening of June 27,” Amato said in an interview with Italian newspaper la Repubblica on Saturday, recounting the June 27, 1980 crash of Itavia Flight 870, in which all 81 passengers and crew onboard were killed.
“A plan had been launched to hit the plane on which Gaddafi was flying,” Amato said, referring to reports of a dogfight taking place in the area between French and Libyan jets on the day the Italian passenger plane went down, and rumors that Gaddafi was on board one of the Libyan Air Force MiG jets.
The plan was to “simulate NATO drills involving many aircraft” during which a missile would have been fired – passed off as an accident – at the plane carrying Gaddafi, Amato said. However, Gaddafi got a warning from then-Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi, Amato’s former rival, and never boarded the jet, with the French missile allegedly intended for him ending up hitting the Itavia plane instead.
The Itavia McDonnell Douglas DC-9 passenger jet crashed into the Tyrrhenian Sea off the western Italian coast, between the islands of Ponza and Ustica en route from Bologna to Palermo.
In 2015, the Palermo Court of Appeal ruled that the crash was caused by a missile hitting the DC-9, and that the missile was fired by another aircraft that crossed the passenger plane’s route. The court ruled out previously claimed versions about a bomb being planted on board the civilian airliner.
In his interview on Saturday, Amato said the Elysee should admit its responsibility, so that it can “wash away the shame that weighs down on Paris.”
“After forty years, the innocent victims [of the crash] have not received justice. Why continue to hide the truth? The time has come to shed light on this terrible state secret. [French President Emmanuel] Macron could do it. And NATO could do it,” he said.
France and its US allies have long denied any involvement in Itavia Flight 870’s crash.
Commenting on Amato’s allegations, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni called on the politician to disclose any materials he may have related to the incident.
“Taking into account that the materials concerning the DC-9 tragedy are not classified, and that the judicial authorities and parliamentary commissions have done a lot of work over decades, I ask Amato to understand whether, in addition to his conclusions, he has other elements that allow him to review the decisions of the judiciary and the parliament, and possibly to make them available, so that the government can take all possible and consistent steps,” Meloni was quoted as saying in a statement released by her office.
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Gaddafi was targeted AFTER he agreed to end his nuclear weapons program, not before. The reason Gaddafi was killed was to prevent Libya from playing a key role in the future development of Africa. Given the anti-colonial developments taking place in Africa around the BRICS, Gaddafi’s assassination prevented his and Libya’s participation in that.
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Giuliano Amato is another of the innumerable traitors of Italia, he is/has always been a tool of NATO/USofAs, he has always done their bidding no many how many innocent Italiani died in the process.
This is not news. Thinking folks figured this out angle from nearly day one. So why is Amato “leaking” all this now? Maybe the AngloZios are using him and his old story to undermine France in as much they in the middle of huge African debacle they are destined to lose?
PS The interview appeared on the pages of “La Repubblica” owned by John Elkann. Too wealthy to be an asset, he is a simply collaborationist (he betrays not for money but because he likes to) who has always hated Italia.
PSS Giuseppe Fioroni, an important Italian political leader, has again claimed that the tragedy was caused by a bomb planted by Palestinians. This, of course, instantly betrays the real reason for the 40-year cover up, i.e., the involvement of Israel.
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