Gino Lucetti
Gino Lucetti (born August 31, 1900 in Carrara , † September 17, 1943 in Ischia ) was an Italian anarchist .
He was born in the Avenza district of the city of Carrara. After losing his father, a stonemason, at the age of ten, he had to work in the marble quarries of Carrara . During the First World War he served in the stormtroopers . After the war, he developed anti-fascist and anarchist views, emigrated to Marseille , France, and returned to Italy in the 1920s.
On September 11, 1926, he dropped a bomb on the car in which Benito Mussolini was sitting on the square in front of Porta Pia in Rome . However, the explosive device ricocheted off the top, exploded on the floor and injured some passers-by. Mussolini, who has held several ministries since 1922 and who as Duce increasingly developed into a dictator , was unharmed and accused the French government of excessive tolerance towards anti-fascist activists. In the subsequent trial, Lucetti was sentenced to 30 years in prison on June 11, 1927.
In 1943 he was freed from prison on the island of Santo Stefano by the Allies who had recently invaded Naples . Lucetti withdrew to the island of Ischia , where he fell victim to a German bomb attack on September 17th.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Short biography from September 21, 2005
- ↑ Author: Marianne Wienemann ( Memento of the original from December 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Gino Lucetti and the attempt on Mussolini
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lucetti, Gino |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian anarchist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 31, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Carrara |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 17, 1943 |
| Place of death | Ischia |