Piazza Fontana bombing
| Piazza Fontana bombing | |
|---|---|
| Part of the Years of Lead | |
Milan's Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura building in December 2007 | |
| Location | Piazza Fontana, Milan, Italy |
| Date | 12 December 1969 16:45 (UTC+1) |
| Target | Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura |
Attack type | Mass murder, bombing |
| Weapons | Bomb |
| Deaths | 17 |
| Injured | 88 |
| 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. The attack was carried out by the neo-fascist paramilitary terrorist group Ordine Nuovo, and possibly undetermined collaborators.