Giuseppe Valerio Fioravanti was born in Rovereto, Trentino, Italy on March 28, 1958. He is an Italian terrorist and actor, who was a leading figure in the far-right Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari (Armed Revolutionary Nuclei, or NAR). Fioravanti appeared in films and television at a young age and was considered the most famous child actor in Italy. He and Francesca Mambro were fugitives wanted for terrorist offences by their early twenties and went on the run as suspects in the Bologna bombing. Both were captured after gunfights with police and later found guilty. They were sentenced to ten life sentences plus 250 years. Fioravanti was released from prison in 2009.
Fioravanti was born in Rovereto to a Roman family, his father was a television presenter. As a child actor, Fioravanti starred in a popular series of the 1960s, ‘La famiglia Benvenuti’, with Enrico Maria Salerno and Valeria Valeri playing his parents. Fioravanti's younger brother Cristiano had joined a far-right youth section at 13; he acquired a reputation for relishing violent confrontations with leftists. According to Fioravanti, his original motivation for associating with far-right militants was not political, but a desire to protect his brother. Fioravanti's parents tried get him away from the escalating violence by sending him to study in the U.S.A. for a year, he returned to make his last film, which was released in 1975. In early 1977, he was charged with assault and given 40 days in jail for possession of a pistol. Fioravanti abandoned university studies to join a paratroop unit of the Italian army; he was repeatedly punished for disciplinary infractions. After a crate of hand grenades was stolen while he was on guard duty, Fioravanti was court-martialed for leaving his post and sentenced to several months in a military prison.
Fioravanti met Francesca Mambro, the daughter of a policeman, at a far-right university club and they soon married. The pair were arrested and convicted of homicide of policemen and for the slaughter in a Bologna station. Giusva spent 28 years in the Rebibbia jail in Rome, originally imprisoned for ten life sentences plus 250 years, he was
Despite continuing to deny responsibility for the Bologna massacre, both were given day releases from the prison. Mambro worked outside at an anti-death penalty organization from 1998; her daughter Arianno with Fioravanti was born in 2000, and Mambro was conditionally released in 2002. Fioravanti was given day releases from 2000 and conditionally released in 2004. The conditions ended in 2009. Fioravanti and Mambro have repudiated and expressed regret for their admitted terrorist activities and continue to maintain they had no involvement in the Bologna station bombing. Fioravanti is currently a contributing writer for Il Riformista focusing on human rights and criminal justice system in Iran and the United States. His articles are dedicated to Hands off Cain, a non-profit organization that supports the abolition of the death penalty and torture worldwide
As Giusva Fioravanti he was a child actor who appeared in four Spaghetti westerns from 1967 to 1970.
FIORAVANTI, Giusva (aka Valerio
Fioravanti, Giusva) (Giuseppe
Valerio Fioravanti) [3/28/1958,
Rovereto, Trentino, Italy, - ] –
child actor, married to Francesca Mambro [1959- ] (1985-
) father of a Arianna Fioravanti [2000- ], became a neo-fascist terrorist and was
arrested and convicted for the murder of a policemen and for the slaughter in
Bologna station, imprisoned in 1981 for life for several murder accounts. He
was paroled in 2004.
Cjamango – 1967
(Manuel Hernandez) [as Giusva]
El Puro – 1969
(Antonio)
Hate is My God –
1969 (young Steve/Vincent Kearney)
Shango – 1970
(Pedrito Fernandez)
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