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Former [[Italian President]] [[Francesco Cossiga]] attributed the cause of the crash of the [[Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870]], killing all on board, while en route from Bologna to Palermo, in 1980, to a missile fired from a [[French Navy]] aircraft. On 23 January 2013 Italy's top criminal court ruled that there was "abundantly" clear evidence that the flight was brought down by a missile.<ref name="washingtonpost.com">{{cite news |title=Italian court: Missile caused 1980 Mediterranean plane crash; Italy must pay compensation |agency=[[Associated Press]] |date=23 January 2013 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/italian-court-missile-caused-1980-mediterranean-plane-crash-italy-must-pay-compensation/2013/01/28/8337ede8-6976-11e2-9a0b-db931670f35d_story.html}}</ref>


In June 2010, Italian President [[Giorgio Napolitano]] urged all Italian authorities to cooperate in the investigation of the incident.<ref>{{cite news|last=Troendle|first=Stefan|publisher=Tagesschau|title=Napolitano fordert Aufklärung des Absturzes von Ustica|date=27 June 2010|url=http://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/ustica108.html|accessdate=27 June 2010|quote=Zum Jahrestag der Flugzeugkatastrophe von Ustica hat Italiens Staatspräsident Giorgio Napolitano alle staatlichen Stellen aufgefordert, daran mitzuarbeiten, das Unglück endlich aufzuklären. Es müsse eine befriedigende und ehrliche Rekonstruktion der Ereignisse stattfinden, damit alle Unklarheiten beseitigt würden.}}</ref>

In September 2011 the Palermo civil tribunal ordered the Italian government to pay 100 million euros ($137 million) in civil damages to the relatives of the victims for failure to protect the flight and for concealing the truth and destroying evidence.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Italy court fines government $137 million over mysterious crash of plane over Ustica |agency=[[Associated Press]] |date=13 September 2011 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/italy-court-fines-government-137-million-over-mysterious-crash-of-plane-over-ustica/2011/09/13/gIQArlRxPK_story.html }}</ref>

Finally, on 23 January 2013, Italy’s top criminal court ruled that there was "abundantly" clear evidence that the flight was brought down by a stray [[missile]] and confirming the lower court's order that the Italian government must pay compensation.<ref name="washingtonpost.com"/>

In April 2015 the appeals court in Palermo confirmed the rulings of the Palermo civil tribunal of 2011 and rejected the appeal by the state attorney.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Ustica, Corte d’Appello conferma: "Il Dc-9 venne abbattuto da un missile" |date=8 April 2015 |newspaper=[[Il Fatto Quotidiano]] |url=http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2015/04/08/ustica-corte-dappello-conferma-dc-9-venne-abbattuto-missile/1573006 }}</ref>

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