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It was sometimes thought that since the bombing in 1980, time had been stopped at this station.
On August 2, 1980, a neo-fascist terrorist group hid a time bomb at the Bologna Centrale station, killing 85 people and wounding more than 200. It is one of the major incidents during the tumultuous Years of Lead, the period of social and political strife that lasted from the 1960s to the 1980s. Some time after this massacre, a subtle controversy occurred concerning the station’s clock. In a 2010 study, local people were asked about it, but only 47 percent responded that they remembered the clock had stopped since the bombing. But as it turned out, this was a collective false memory, a phenomenon commonly referred to today as the “Mandela effect.”
