Franco Angioni
Franco Angioni (born August 25, 1933 in Santa Marinella near Civitavecchia , Latium ) is a former Italian general and politician. From 1982 to 1984 he led a peacekeeping operation by Italian forces in Lebanon .
Life
Angionis family comes from Sardinia . At the age of 16 he entered the Nunziatella military high school in Naples , where he also graduated from high school . This is followed by officer training at the military academy in Modena and Turin . Angioni then served in a special forces battalion in the Folgore paratrooper brigade , which he later commanded. In the USA he completed the Ranger -Education, in Canada , the Staff College and in the UK a course on electronic warfare . In Italy he completed general staff training , became a colonel in 1974 and, after being employed in the training area, headed the operations department of the Army General Staff. He first came into contact with Lebanon in 1979 when an Italian helicopter squadron was relocated to Naqoura, near the Lebanese-Israeli border, as part of a UN contingent.
Lebanon
After this first experience, he was elected as troop leader when the international community decided to send a UN peacekeeping force to civil war- torn Lebanon. The US , UK , France and Italy are sending contingents . End of August beginning of September 1982, the evacuated Bersaglieri - Battalion Governolo within two weeks of Arafat and his 13,000-strong force from Beirut (Lebanon 1). On September 12, 1982, the battalion returns to Italy, but four days later it comes in some refugee camps to massacres of civilians , resulting in a renewed international intervention has the effect (Lebanon 2, 1982-1984). The deployment of the Italian contingent ITALCON is prepared and then managed by Angioni. The 2,100-strong Italian contingent consists of some support troops and three mechanized infantry battalions (including the San Marco marine battalion ), which in Beirut cover an area of 32 square kilometers between the “Green Line” and the coast, including the refugee camps of Chatila and Bori el Barajne. Under Brigadier General Franco Angioni, the Italian soldiers carried out their mission between September 1982 and February 1984 with remarkable professionalism. The British press , which is otherwise relatively cynical towards the Italian military , writes that an efficient and serious Italy (Financial Times) has shown itself in Lebanon. Thanks to its cautious approach, Italy loses only one soldier in this difficult mission between the civil war fronts: the twenty-year-old marine, Filippo Montesi. The US contingent in particular is the target of suicide attacks, which ultimately lead to the withdrawal of the international peacekeeping force.
Politician
Franco Angioni was from 2001 to 2006 a member of parliament for the “Left Democrats” (former communists).
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Angioni, Franco |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 25, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Santa Marinella near Rome |