Esercito Volontario per l'Indipendenza della Sicilia

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The Esercito Volontario per l'Indipendenza della Sicilia ( EVIS ; German  Volunteer Army for the Independence of Sicily ) was a separatist movement on the Italian island of Sicily in the post-war period . It was founded as an armed unit in October 1944 , shortly after the Sicilian Political Independence Movement (MIS) was founded in 1943. The EVIS was led by Antonio Canepa (also known under the pseudonym Mario Turri ), a professor at the University of Catania .

history

The EVIS emerged as an armed resistance, but also as the core of a first and regular army of the Sicilian Republic . Initially, the EVIS consisted of around 50 men. The young people gathered in uniform , but acted distributed and secret.

On June 17, 1945 Canepa was shot together with two other EVIS supporters in an exchange of fire with Carabinieri . The incident is known as the crime scene, Murazzu Ruttu near Randazzo . The circumstances of the death of Canepa and his colleagues could not be conclusively clarified in court; to this day they have been the subject of much speculation, including the assumption that there was a murder plot by the right wing in the Sicilian independence movement against the communist Canepa. With Canepa's death began the decline of the separatist movement in Sicily, which was completed in 1947.

The famous EVIS commander Salvatore Giuliano waged the guerrilla war even further until his death in 1950, which is also unresolved.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c La Repubblica of November 25, 2008, p. 1, Separatismo nuovo giallo sulla morte di Canepa
  2. ^ Farrell, Joseph, Understanding the Mafia, Manchester 1997, 80
  3. ↑ La Repubblica of June 26, 1996, p. 17, Il capobanda, il traditore, la prima strage del dopoguerra

literature

  • F. Gaja: L'esercito della lupara. Maquis Editore, Milano 1990, OCLC 800262731 .
  • Antonio Canepa: La Sicilia ai siciliani! Catania 1944, (published under the pseudonym Mario Turri ).
  • GC Marino: Storia del separatismo siciliano 1943–1947. Editori Riuniti, Roma 1979, OCLC 641854711 .