[1] In the evening of 31 May 1972, while the European Cup final between Inter and Ajax was being transmitted live on television, an anonymous telephone call was made to the Gradisca d'Isonzo station of the carabinieri.

[4] On 6 October 1972, Ivano Boccaccio, 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.

[5] At some point after take-off, Boccaccio, threatening with his gun the pilots and warning them that he was carrying a bomb, forced the plane back to Ronchi, where he demanded a ransom of 200 million lire[N 1] and the freedom of some unnamed "political prisoners.

It has been alleged that, on 24 January 1977, he took part in the attack carried out at the offices of the Communist Party of Spain-supported Comisiones Obreras union, in which five activists were killed by armed, masked men.

[9][N 6] 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,[7] 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.