Gianni Aricò, his German fiancée Annelise Borth (known as "Muki"), Angelo Casile, Franco Scordo, Luigi Lo Celso, carried out documentation work on two events that took place in the summer of 1970 known as the Reggio revolt.
When they judged they had collected enough material they decided to travel to the capital to deliver them to the editorial office of Umanità Nova and meet the lawyer Di Giovanni, who had collaborated on the counter-investigation into the Piazza Fontana bombing.
"The two lorry drivers involved, according to counter-investigations carried out by anarchists,[6] were employees of a company headed by Prince Junio Valerio Borghese,[7] a well-known figure in the Italian far-right and the leader of an attempted coup a few months after the incident took place.
[8] In 1993, Giacomo Lauro and Carmine Dominici confirmed, to the Milan investigating judge Guido Salvini, the alleged collusion between far-right circles and the 'Ndrangheta and claimed the direct responsibility of the latter in the events of Reggio and in the Gioia Tauro bombing.
Certainly these Aniello brothers were real highwaymen, since the truck they drove, number plate SA 135371, on 28 October 1970, caused a collision, on the outskirts of Milan, in which 8 people died and 40 were injured".Mario Guarino [it] attests that Angelo Casile had compiled a list of extremists in contact with the Greek junta that was also published by L'Espresso.
[12] In 2001, new doubts were raised about the death of the five anarchists, and the head of the Calabrian Anti-Mafia Directorate Salvo Boemi defined the hypothesis that the incident had been a massacre as "logical and plausible":[9] "I am convinced that those five young people had found important documents.