In Banari, the investigative book written by journalist Pier Giorgio Pinna will be presented within the Ammajare OFF festival. 

This is a true spy story. Not a thriller or fiction. As incredible as it sounds, every aspect of events hidden by intelligence forces really happened. It all took place 30 years ago and today finds confirmation in circumstances linked on the eve of possible world wars. On 2 March 1994, most likely to conceal arms trafficking traceable to institutional apparatuses, the Volpe 132 helicopter of the Finance Police was shot down near Europe’s largest experimental joint-forces range, Quirra/Capo San Lorenzo, in south-eastern Sardinia: the two pilots died, their bodies never found. Because of the simultaneous presence in that stretch of sea of the container ship Lucina, later reappearing on other Red Sea and Mediterranean routes, this forgotten tragedy connects to at least two others. The first is the killing of journalist Ilaria Alpi and cameraman Miran Hrovatin in Somalia (on 20 March of the same year). The second is the massacre on board the ship on 7 July, again in 1994, when in Algeria the captain and six Italian seafarers aboard the Lucina had their throats cut. Over the decades the three events have been at the center of cover-ups and distortions in the investigation’s course. But in recent months a great deal of top-level investigative material has resurfaced. And, among other things, details have been recovered of a major RIS expert report, 150 pages never published before, which for a long time people tried to keep secret without success.