Giuliano Amato says he believes the missile was a failed attempt to assassinate Libya’s then-leader Moammar Gaddafi.
A former Italian premier contended that a French air force missile accidentally brought down a passenger jet over the Mediterranean Sea in 1980 in a failed bid to assassinate Libya’s then-leader Moammar Gaddafi.
The wreckage of the plane was recovered from the sea floor years later, though the cause of the crash has still not been determined Mr Amato was quoted as saying: “The most credible version is that of responsibility of the French air force, in complicity with the Americans and who participated in a war in the skies that evening of June 27.”
According to Mr Amato, a missile was allegedly fired by a French fighter jet that had taken off from an aircraft carrier, possibly off Corsica’s southern coast.
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