Giuseppe Valerio Fioravanti (born 28 March 1958) is an Italian former child actor and terrorist, founder of the neo-fascist terrorist group Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari.
Fioravanti was born in Rovereto. He served jail time for the 1980 Bologna train station bombing. He had been convicted, altogether, to 10 life terms plus 250 years, and was found guilty for the killing of 93 people. He pleaded guilty for seven murders and several robberies, but denies implication for the Bologna massacre. He served actually 27 years in prison, the last 9 years working outside the prison in the organization Nessuno tocchi Caino, linked to the Radical Party of Italy. He was released on 3 August 2009.
Fioravanti married in prison in 1985 the former terrorist Francesca Mambro, his co-accomplice in the Bologna massacre. They now have a daughter. In 1997, the Venice Film Festival debuted a documentary of his on Rome's Rebibbia prison, Piccoli Ergastoli (Little Life Sentences).
Fioravanti was arrested on 5 February 1981, after two policemen were killed in a shootout in Padua with members of the Terza Posizione terrorist grouping. Fioravanti was shot, a tip-off led to his arrest later that day. He was sought at that time in connection with a series of crimes, including the Bologna bombing.[1]
In 1988, he was convicted and served a life sentence for the Bologna bombing.[2] He was acquitted on appeals in 1990, but a retrial started in 1993.[3][4] In 1995, the Supreme Court confirmed his earlier sentence.