Antonino Allegra (1924-4 January 2016) was an Italian policeman who served as head of the Political Bureau of the Milan Police Headquarters during the Years of Lead.
Biography[]
Antonino Allegra was born in Santa Teresa Riva, Sicily, Italy in 1924, and he became a policeman. He served as a police chief in Trieste and Turin before becoming head of the Political Bureau of the Milan Police Headquarters during the stormy political climate of the late 1960s. He searched for anarchist leaders after the Piazza Fontana bombing of 1969, although the attack was, in reality, carried out by neo-fascist extremists. He also had to hunt for suspects after the murder of commissioner Luigi Calabresi, who had led the Piazza Fontana investigation. Allegra died in 2016.