page_title: Mariano Rumor
section_title: Interior Minister and assassination attempt
hierarchical_section_title: Mariano Rumor / Political career / Interior Minister and assassination attempt
caption_attribution_description: English: Milan massacre in 1973
context_page_description: Mariano Rumor was an Italian politician and statesman. A member of the Christian Democracy, he served as the 39th Prime Minister of Italy from December 1968 to August 1970 and again from July 1973 to November 1974. As Prime Minister, he led five different governments, supported by various coalitions.
  Rumor also served as Minister of Agriculture from 1959 to 1963, Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1974 to 1976 and Minister of the Interior in two brief periods, in 1963 and from 1972 to 1973. Rumor was also Secretary of the Christian Democracy from 1964 to 1969.
context_section_description: In 1972, Rumor was appointed Minister of the Interior, in the government of Giulio Andreotti.
  In 1973, Rumor was the target of an assassination attempt, planned by Gianfranco Bertoli, a self-described anarchist. Four were killed during the bombing, and 45 injured, while Rumor escaped alive from it. Bertoli was given a life-term in 1975. Bertoli was an informant of SISMI, the "Military Intelligence and Security Service", at the time. Court proceedings later showed that this connection was one of mistaken identity.
caption: An image of the 1973 Milan massacre, of which Rumor was considered the main target
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