21 Facts About Valerio Fioravanti

Giuseppe Valerio Fioravanti was born on 28 March 1958 and is an Italian former terrorist and actor, who was a leading figure in the far-right Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari.

Valerio Fioravanti was born in Rovereto to a Roman family, his father was a television presenter.

Valerio Fioravanti's parents tried get him away from the escalating violence by sending him to study in the US for a year, he returned to make his last film, which was released in 1975.

Valerio Fioravanti abandoned university studies to join a paratroop unit of the Italian army; he was repeatedly punished for disciplinary infractions.

Valerio Fioravanti met Fioravanti at a far right university club.

Mambro later said the experience made her decide to carry a gun, although her personal involvement with Valerio Fioravanti played a major part in her taking up terrorism.

Valerio Fioravanti was one of a number of teenage activists in Rome who saw the state-sanctioned far-right political party as betraying them, through inaction in the face of attacks by political opponents and the police.

Valerio Fioravanti was a good friend of Carminati, and through him, he was introduced to some members of Rome's dominant criminal gang members, including Massimo Sparti, who became close to Cristiano.

Valerio Fioravanti anticipated others would be drawn to emulate NAR, and that other cells would spring up spontaneously, as they shifted to taking action irrespective of the consequences.

Valerio Fioravanti advocated small, fast-moving groups, as he intended the name "Armed Revolutionary Nuclei" to be adopted by largely independent cells.

Valerio Fioravanti was doing military service when the first killing occurred, it is believed to have been committed by either Cristiano or Alibrandi in September 1977; a leftist militant was shot dead.

Valerio Fioravanti quickly collaborated to provide police with a thorough account of NAR activities, and was released under a new identity after a year.

The prosecution at Valerio Fioravanti's trial alleged he obtained explosive material by scuba diving on a sunken WW2 Italian warship and taking recovered anti-aircraft shells apart to extract the propellant.

Valerio Fioravanti said that Armed Revolutionary Nuclei had never deliberately targeted ordinary people.

Valerio Fioravanti has said that the 1980 Bologna train station bombing was the work of Libya, and that the Italian state had been reluctant to pursue that line of enquiry because of dependence on Libya's oil, and thus blamed neo-fascists.

The prosecution said that Valerio Fioravanti had admitted to crimes which demonstrated an indiscriminate ruthlessness, and that he had espoused an ideology that justified attacks similar to Bologna, as had Mambro.

Valerio Fioravanti alleged that, two days after the blast, Fioravanti had come to him to obtain false documents, and said he worried someone might recognize Mambro from the station.

Mambro worked outside at an anti-death penalty organisation from 1998; her daughter with Valerio Fioravanti was born two years later, and Mambro was conditionally released in 2002.

Valerio Fioravanti was given day release from 2000, and conditionally released in 2004.

Valerio Fioravanti is currently a contributing writer for Il Riformista focusing on human rights and criminal justice system in Iran and the United States.

Valerio Fioravanti's articles are dedicated to Hands off Cain, a non-profit organization that supports the abolition of the death penalty and torture worldwide.