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Former Italian prime minister's "bomb": France shot down plane with 81 passengers in an attempt to kill Gaddafi

2023-09-03 12:37:12Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Former Italian prime minister's "bomb": France shot down plane
Muammar Gaddafi and Giuliano Amato

In an interview published on Saturday, former Italian Prime Minister Giuliano Amato claimed that a French air force missile had accidentally shot down an Italian passenger jet over the Mediterranean Sea in 1980 in a failed attempt to kill the then leader of Libya, Moammar Gaddafi.

Twice the Prime Minister Giuliano Amato called on the French President Emmanuel Macron to either deny or confirm his assertion regarding the cause of the crash on June 27, 1980, of a plane carrying out domestic flights in Italy, where as a result they lost the lives of 81 people on board.

In an interview with the Italian daily 'La Repubblica', Mr. Amato said he is convinced that the plane was shot down by the French air force while targeting a Libyan military aircraft.

Mr. Amato admitted that there was no concrete evidence to support this claim, but he also added that Italy had informed Gaddafi at the time and so according to him the Libyan leader, who was returning to Tripoli from a meeting in the former Yugoslavia, had not boarded on the Libyan military plane.

The 1980 Italian passenger plane crash remains one of Italy's most enduring mysteries of modern times. Some say that the event was the result of a bomb that had exploded on board the plane that was flying from Bologna to Sicily, while others say that from the examination of the remains extracted from the bottom of the sea, a few years later, it turned out that the plane had been hit from a rocket.

Radar tracks showed a flurry of aircraft activity in that part of the sky at the time of the accident.

"The most reliable version is that of the responsibility of the French air force for what happened that evening of June 27, in cooperation with the Americans", Mr. Amato is quoted as saying.

NATO planned to "simulate an exercise, with many planes in action, during which a missile was supposed to be launched" that would have Gaddafi as a target, Mr. Amato said.

After the crash, French, American and NATO officials denied that they had conducted military air activities that day.

According to Mr. Amato, the missile is suspected to have been fired by a French warplane which had been launched from an aircraft carrier, possibly off the southern coast of Corsica.

President Macron, 45, was a child at the time of the accident.

"I wonder why a young president like Macron would not want to remove the shame that weighs on France," said Mr. Amato to 'La Repubblica'. "And he can remove this only in two ways - either by demonstrating that this thesis is unfounded or after the foundation of (the thesis) is verified, by apologizing more deeply to Italy and the families of the victims on behalf of his government." .

Mr. Amato, 85, said that in 2000, when he was prime minister, he had written to the then presidents of the United States and France, Bill Clinton and Jacques Chirac respectively, to pressure them to drop light on what happened. But his requests, he said, had been met with their total silence.

Asked by The Associated Press, Mr. Macron's office said Saturday that it would not immediately comment on Mr. Amato's statements.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni called on Mr Amatos to say whether there is concrete evidence to support his claims, so her government can pursue the matter further.

Mr. Amato's words "deserve attention," Ms. Meloni said in a statement released by her office, noting that the former prime minister's assertions "were his personal deductions."

Assertions about the involvement of France in this accident are not new. In a 2008 television interview, former Italian President Francesco Cossiga, who was serving as prime minister at the time of the incident, said a French missile had hit the plane, but that its target had been a Libyan military jet. Mr Cossiga also said he had learned that the military branch of Italy's secret services had briefed Gaddafi on the possible attack.

Muammar Gaddafi was killed in Libya's civil war in 2011.

Weeks after the downing of the Italian passenger plane, the remains of a Libyan MiG military jet, with the badly decomposed body of its pilot, were discovered in the remote mountains of southern Calabria.


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