Francesco Cossiga ( 1928 – 2010 ) was an Italian politician, the 43rd Prime Minister and the eighth President of the Italian Republic.

Cossiga was born in Sassari in the north of Sardinia.

In 1977, when Cossiga was minister of internal affairs, police squads organized by Cossiga shot against a demonstration in Rome, killing student Giorgiana Masi.

Cossiga for many years stated that she was killed by her companions.

According to Italian journalist Enrico Deaglio, Cossiga to justify his lack of action " accused the leaders of CGIL and of the Italian Communist Party to know the location where Moro was detained ".

During the early 1980s, Cossiga attacked several times the antimafia judges and spoke in favour of judge Corrado Carnevale, a member of the Corte di Cassazione ( Italy's supreme court ) who had annulled numerous sentences against mafia leaders and was later tried for these actions.

Cossiga was elected President of the Italian Senate 1983, a position he held until 1985, when he became the President of Italy.

Following his resignation as president of the Senate in 1985, Cossiga was elected President of Italy ( Head of State ).

It was not until his last two years as President that Cossiga began to express some unusual opinions regarding the Italian political system.

These statements, soon dubbed " esternazioni ", or " mattock blows " ( picconate ), were considered by many to be inappropriate for a President and, often, beyond his constitutional powers ; also, his mental health was doubted and Cossiga had to declare " I am the fake madman who speaks the truth.

Cossiga declared that his support for D ' Alema was intended to end the conventional exclusion of the former Communist Party ( PCI ) leaders from the premiership in Italy.

In 1999 UDR was dissolved and Cossiga returned to his activities as a senator, with competences in the Military Affairs ' Commission.

However, the previous year Cossiga had stated that he rejects theoretical conspiracies and that it " seems unlikely that the rather impossible September 11 was the result of an American plot.

In the same statement, Cossiga claimed that a video tape circulated by Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda and containing threats against Silvio Berlusconi was " produced in the studios of Mediaset in Milan " and forwarded to the " Islamist Al-Jazeera television network.

As President of the Republic, Cossiga was Head ( and also Knight Grand Cross with Grand Cordon ) of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic ( from 3 July 1985 to 28 April 1992 ), Military Order of Italy, Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity, Order of Merit for Labour and Order of Vittorio Veneto and Grand Cross of Merit of the Italian Red Cross.

He was a cousin of Francesco Cossiga ( who was a leader of the Italian Christian Democrats and later became a President of the Italian Republic ), and both were relatives of Antonio Segni, another Christian Democrat leader and President of the Republic.

), that it was Dalla Chiesa that, during Aldo Moro's kidnapping, had informed the then Interior Minister Francesco Cossiga of the location of the cave where Moro was detained.

Francesco Cossiga also said the " crisis committee " also leaked a false statement, attributed to the Red Brigades, saying that Moro was dead.

Francesco Cossiga, former head of secret services and Head of state of Italy, advised the 2008 minister in charge of the police, on how to deal with the protests from teachers and students: He should do what I did when I was Minister of the Interior.

Andreotti was one of the most likely candidates to succeed Cossiga as President of the Republic in 1992.

As the result of a vote of no confidence in Prodi's government, D ' Alema's nomination was passed by a single vote, with the support of a loyal communist faction ( PdCI ) and of some centrist MPs ( UDR ) led by former president of the Republic Francesco Cossiga.

According to the Italian Constitution, after his resignation from the office of President, Cossiga became lifetime senator, joining his predecessors in the upper house of parliament, with whom he also shared the title of President Emeritus of the Italian Republic.

Following this report, which also claimed that the CIA had been involved in the assassination of the Swedish Prime minister Olof Palme, then President Francesco Cossiga requested the opening of investigations while the CIA itself officially denied these allegations.

* Francesco Cossiga, Christian-Democrat minister, prime minister and president

* On August 19, 2011 the prosecutor of Bologna placed under investigation two German terrorists, Thomas Kram and Christa Margot Frohlich, both linked to the group of terrorist Carlos, who would be present in Bologna on the day of the attack, thus following the trail of Palestinian terrorism, never accepted by the president of the family victims Paolo Bolognesi and instead repeatedly revived by Francesco Cossiga.

Francesco Cossiga, on March 15, 1991, at the time of his presidency, said he had been wrong to define " fascist " the massacre at Bologna station and had been misinformed by the secret services.

The Italian Government led by Christian Democrat Prime Minister Francesco Cossiga first assumed the explosion to have been caused by an accident ( the explosion of an old boiler located in the basement of the station ).

Tension developed between Cossiga and the President of the Council of Ministers Giulio Andreotti.

Cossiga announced his involvement in the establishment of the organization.

Cossiga resigned two months before the end of his term, on 1992.

In February 1998, Cossiga created the Unione Democratica per la Repubblica ( a political party ), declaring it to be politically central.

Cossiga died on 17 August 2010 because of respiratory problems.

In 2007, in a statement published by the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, Cossiga commented on the 11 September attacks and on a video attributed to Osama Bin Laden 2001.

The only Presidents ever to be elected on the first ballot are Francesco Cossiga and Carlo Azeglio Ciampi.

* 1928 – Francesco Cossiga, Italian politician, 8th President of Italy ( d. 2010 )

** Francesco Cossiga, Italian politician, 8th President ( d. 2010 )

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