Marco Toffaloni, who was a minor at the time of the 1974 Piazza della Loggia bombing, has appealed the 30-year prison sentence handed down to him as the material executor of the attack by the juvenile court. His defense argues that “a more thorough examination of the procedural findings should have led the Court to a full acquittal.” The appeal raises several points, beginning with the most contested piece of evidence: a photograph taken in the piazza immediately after the bombing. While the first-instance judges ruled the image depicts a young Toffaloni, his lawyer objects that the same court-ordered analysis had only spoken of a “probable identification,” not a certainty. Furthermore, the appeal states that “out of eleven witnesses, ten did not recognize Toffaloni as the unknown man in the square.”
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