Years of Lead

The Years of Lead were a period of terrorism in Italyball lasted from late 60s until early 80s, mainly located in the northern part of Italyball.

The Years of Lead are often considered to have begun with the Hot Autumnstrikes starting in 1969; the death of the policeman Antonio Annarumma in November 1969; the Piazza Fontana bombing in December of that year, which killed 17 and was perpetrated by right-wing terrorists in Milan; and the subsequent death of leftist anarchist worker Giuseppe Pinelli while in police custody under suspicion of a crime he did not commit.

The term's origin possibly came as a reference to the number of shootings during the period, or a popular 1981 German film Marianne and Juliane, released in Italy as Anni di piombo, which centered on the lives of two members of the West German militant far-left group Red Army Faction which had gained notoriety during the same period.