Adriano Sofri

Adriano Sofri (born 1 August 1942) is an Italian far-left former politician, journalist and writer. He was convicted for ordering the assassination of Milan Police officer Luigi Calabresi in 1972. This was one of the most prominent murders during the period of social turmoil and political violence in Italy known as the "Years of Lead". Spanning from the late 1960s until the late 1980s, they were marked by a wave of both far-left and far-right incidents of political terrorism. During the 1960s and 1970s, Sofri was the leader of the far-left militant organization called Lotta Continua ("Continuous Struggle"), together with Giorgio Pietrostefani. Sofri spent his sentence between 1997 and 2012. In the meantime, he wrote for various Italian national newspapers, such as Il Foglio, La Repubblica, and Panorama. He is a daily columnist for Il Foglio still nowadays.