Carlo Cicuttini

Ronchi hijacking On 6 October 1972, Ivano Boccaccio, a former paratrooper, embarked on the Fokker aircraft of the Aero Trasporti Italiani airline scheduled to depart at 17:00 hrs from the Ronchi dei Legionari airport to its Bari destination. 21-year old Boccaccio was wearing a blonde wig and carrying Cicuttini's Luger pistol, a hand grenade, and a parachute that had been, as was subsequently revealed during the Italian authorities' investigation, purchased in Switzerland by Vincenzo Vinciguerra together with Cicuttini, all three of them being Ordine Nuovo members at the time. and the freedom of some unnamed "political prisoners." Later, in the evening, he freed the passengers in exchange for the plane's refueling, during which the crew managed to escape. The police stormed the plane and Boccaccio was killed under circumstances that never became known in detail. While living in Spain, and during the period of the country's transition to democracy, Cicuttini, according to reports by Italian intelligence agencies, was involved in numerous armed actions undertaken by the Guerrilleros de Cristo Rey and the Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberación, such as attacks against the ETA.

After lengthy investigations carried out by Venetian magistrate Felice Casson, arrest warrants were issued in 1982 for Cicuttini and Vinciguerra on account of their participation in the Peteano massacre and the hijacking. Casson used voice experts to identify the voice in the 1972 anonymous phone call to the carabinieri as belonging to Cicuttini.

On 17 April 1998, Cicuttini was arrested by the French police while he was in Toulouse and, after a period of legal challenges he mounted, he was extradited to Italy, where he commenced serving his Peteano bombing sentence of life imprisonment that would run concurrently with his 11-year prison term for the Ronchi hijacking.

Death While serving his sentence in the Parma prison, Cicuttini was diagnosed in 2009 as having a lung tumor. He was allowed to get treatment under guard in the Palmanova hospital, where he died on 24 February 2010.