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thigh in a firefight three weeks earlier (19 June 1981), during which some members of the Red
Brigades had made an unsuccessful attempt on the life of Antonio De Vita, defense lawyer of the repentant terrorist Patrizio Peci, who defended himself by shooting his gun. Furthermore, Pittella was accused of having developed a plan with the Red Brigades to kidnap for extortion purposes Ferdinando Schettini, the vice-president of Basilicata and his political rival within the Italian Socialist Party, who as the region's health councilor had revoked the agreement with Pittella's clinic the region.
406:, after which he got paroled. Meanwhile, his private nursing home was put up for sale to the Basilicata region. The appeal process between 1989 and 1990 confirmed the sentence of twelve years and one month in prison, of which almost three had already been served and another two had been pardoned. At the final sentence, handed down in the Moro Third trial of the Supreme Court of Cassation on 10 May 1993, Pittella made himself untraceable by fleeing to France. Based on what is told by Pittella himself, Ligas was in prison in Messina when she made a written statement to
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In the Ligas case, Pittella was involved for subversive association and participation in an armed gang for having made
Sanatrix, his clinic in Lauria, available to the Red Brigades. In 1981, he treated the fugitive terrorist Natalia Ligas without drawing up a report. Ligas had been wounded in the
315:, Pittella received 25.0% of the votes, this time coming third, once again behind Bonaventura Picardi (41.0%), as well as Luigi Grezzi of the Italian Communist Party (26.5%); by a technicality, he was the only one of the three to be elected. He was re-elected a third time in the
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who garnered 46.2%; both were elected senators. At the end of the electoral campaign, on the holiday of 1 May 1972 and in the presence of the then
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Pittella fell and broke his hip on 14 February 2018. He died in Lauria on 15 April 2018, aged 86, of complications from the injury.
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469:"E' venuto a mancare l'ex senatore Domenico Pittella, il padre di Marcello e Gianni Pittella"
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President of the Hygiene and Health Commission of the Senate of the Republic
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957:"Insurrezione armata, a giudizio l'ex senatore del PSI Pittella"
1041:"Decreto del Presidente della Repubblica 10 marzo 1986, n. 130"
983:"Fa nuove ammissioni Pittella, la sua posizione s'aggrava'"
439:"Addio 'don Mimì', la Basilicata piange Domenico Pittella"
495:"Morto ex senatore Pittella curò il brigatista Ligas"
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1095:"Gli anni difficili. Domenico Pittella si racconta"
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1012:"Moro-Ter, per i giudici Pittella era delle Br"
1161:(in Italian). 17 February 2000. Archived from
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562:– via GianniPittella.com, October 2020.
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1068:"Pittella e' latitante. Curò una terrorista"
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547:Brienza, Rosita Stella (2 August 2015).
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1240:3 interventi di Totò Domenico Pittella
1093:Lamboglia, Mario (10 September 2011).
603:Lamboglia, Mario (10 September 2011).
520:Lamboglia, Mario (10 September 2011).
1302:Senators of Legislature VIII of Italy
1123:Una vita per il socialismo umanitario
794:Rizzini, Marianna (21 January 2016).
306:Minister of Labor and Social Security
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1126:(in Italian). Koinè Nuove Edizioni.
955:Scottoni, Franco (25 January 1985).
928:Padellaro, Antonio (20 March 2024).
874:Arachi, Alessandra (15 March 2024).
821:Bracalini, Paolo (29 January 2018).
630:Sergi, Pantaleone (17 August 1984).
573:Mennella, Giuseppe F. (8 May 1983).
375:Personal life, Ligas case, and death
369:Tomaso Staiti di Cuddia delle Chiuse
1292:Senators of Legislature VI of Italy
1272:Italian Socialist Party politicians
1099:Eco di Basilicata Calabria Campania
711:"Le amicizie imbarazzanti di Bossi"
609:Eco di Basilicata Calabria Campania
526:Eco di Basilicata Calabria Campania
97:25 May 1972 – 11 July 1983
58:2 July 1980 – 11 July 1983
311:In the Lauria constituency at the
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1066:Vulpio, Carlo (6 November 1993).
847:Olivo, Federica (18 March 2024).
767:Mackinson, Thomas (6 July 2018).
709:Vasile, Vincenzo (31 July 2011).
393:member of the European Parliament
286:1970 Basilicata regional election
244:Early life, family, and education
1101:(in Italian). Lauria. p. 30
611:(in Italian). Lauria. p. 14
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270:University of Naples Federico II
202:University of Naples Federico II
901:Rossi, Cosimo (19 March 2024).
1242:at Radio Radicale (in Italian)
664:(in Italian). 28 February 1991
16:Italian politician (1932–2018)
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