Mariano Rumor was an Italian politician, a member of the Democrazia Cristiana and the 40th Prime Minister of Italy

Prime minister of Italy

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He was born in Vicenza

Vicenza

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, Veneto

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. He graduated in Letters and was elected to the Constituent Assembly, which was opening the way for the new Italian Parliament of the Italian Republic, in 1946.

In 1973, Interior Minister Mariano Rumor was attacked by Gianfranco Bertoli, a self-described anarchist. Four were killed during the bombing, and 45 injured, while Rumor escaped alive from it. Bertoli was served a life-term in 1975. Bertoli was an informant of SIFAR

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at the time, and was in the early 1990s linked to Operation Gladio

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. Court proceedings showed that this connection was one of mistaken identity.