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Ein Tirol was a terrorist organization that carried out bomb attacks in South Tyrol in the 1980s .
Historical context
More than ten years after the last attacks in South Tyrol at the end of the 1960s and after the implementation of the South Tyrol Package and the Second Statute of Autonomy was introduced, bombs exploded again from 1978. Attacks such as the one on the victory monument in Bolzano , the Kapuzinerwastl ( Alpini monument to the Abyssinian War ) in Bruneck and the grave of the fascist Senator Ettore Tolomei in Montan formed the beginning of a new ten-year series of attacks. The attacks were also responded to with violence: attacks on the house of Governor Silvius Magnago , the Andreas Hofer monument in Merano and various hotels as well as the poisoning of apples on trees were the "Italian answer" carried out by the Associazione Protezione Italiani ( "Association for the Protection of Italians") and Movimento Italiani Alto Adige ("Movement of Italians in South Tyrol").
Group activities
From 1986, after another quieter period with only isolated actions, the Ein Tirol group was active. To her belonged Karl Ausser, Karola Unterkircher, Peter Paul Volgger and Karl Zwischenbrugger. She carried out the attacks before important political events or election dates.
- Pipe bomb attack on the headquarters of Radiotelevisione Italiana on Mazzini Square in Bolzano
- Attack on a pressure pipeline of a power plant in Lana
- Attack on the Banco di Roma financial institution
- Attack on a building of the state telephone company SIP
The series of attacks ended in 1988 with the arrest of Karl Ausser and later the other members of the underground organization.
literature
- Hans Karl Peterlini : South Tyrolean bomb years . Raetia Edition, Bozen 2003
Individual proof
- ↑ Neo-fascists in South Tyrol poison the apple harvest . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna October 1, 1981, p. 01 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).