Killer Cop Killer Cop Killer Cop () is a 1975 Italian poliziottesco-crime film directed in 1975 by Luciano Ercoli. The film's plot reprises the very real Piazza Fontana bombing which happened in Milan in 1969. The gun in the umbrella used in the movie is similar to a Bulgarian umbrella used at London in 1978 to kill Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov. "Killer Cop" was shot in Milan. "Killer Cop"'s plot is influenced from the Piazza Fontana bombings. The funerals seen in the film on a television screen are actual footage of the funerals of the victims of the bombings. "Killer Cop" was
Bulgarian umbrella Vladimir Kostov the same year in the Paris "Métro". The poison used in both cases was ricin. Both assassination attempts are believed to have been organized by the Bulgarian Secret Service of the time of the Cold War with the assistance of the KGB. Such an umbrella was intended to be used in the assassination of Pallo Jordan and Ronnie Kasrils by the South African Civil Cooperation Bureau death squad. These two cases inspired the 1980 French film "Le Coup du parapluie" ("The Umbrella Coup") directed by Gérard Oury and starring Pierre Richard, and Bulgarian writer Stefan Kisyov's novel "The