Luigi Calabresi

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Luigi Calabresi (born November 14, 1937 in Rome , † May 17, 1972 in Milan ) was an Italian police superintendent who was assassinated in front of his house and died two shots from a revolver.

murder

The murder of Calabresi took place against the background of several bombings in Rome and Milan in 1969. During the investigation, the anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli was arrested, who later fell out of the window under unexplained circumstances and died in police custody. Giuseppe Pinelli was wrongly suspected. It later emerged that the terrorist attack had been carried out by the right wing. In the absence of evidence, the police officers were dismissed and the court found that Pinelli's fall was an accident.

Calabresi was accused in parts of the public of being responsible for the death of Pinelli. The leftist movement Lotta Continua was among those who blamed Calabresi for this.

The perpetrators and instigators of the murder of Calabresi were determined only after many years. Adriano Sofri and Giorgio Pietrostefani were identified as the instigators of the murder, and Ovidio Bompressi and Leonardo Marino as perpetrators and convicted.

Luigi Calabresi received the gold medal of the Italian Republic for civil valor.

Beatification process

At the initiative of the priest Ennio Innocenti, a beatification process was initiated for Luigi Calabrese . As the responsible diocesan bishop, Dionigi Cardinal Tettamanzi has been examining the submitted material since 2007. Pope Paul VI raised Luigi Calabresi to the venerable servant of God .

literature

  • Biacchessi, Daniele: Il caso Sofri. Cronaca di un'inchiesta, Ed. Riuniti, Rome 1998.
  • Mario Calabresi : The blue Cinquecento. History of my family in the shadow of terrorism , SchirmerGraf, Munich 2008, ISBN 3-86555-052-5 , Org .: Spingendo la notte più in là - Storia della mia famiglia e di altre vittime del terrorismo, Mondadori, Milan 2007, ISBN 8804568429 .
  • Gemma Capra; Luciano Garibaldi : Mio marito. Il commissario Calabresi: il diario segreto della moglie, dopo 17 anni di silenzio . Turin: Paoline, 1990
  • Casamassima, Pino: Il libro nero delle brigate rosse, Newton-Compton Verlag, Rome 2007, ISBN 978-88-541-1085-4 .
  • Aldo Cazzullo : Il caso Sofri. Dalla condanna alla “tregua civile” , Mondadori, Milan 2004.
  • Giannuli, Aldo: bomb a inchiostro. Luci e ombre della Controinformazione tra il '68 e gli anni di piombo, BUR, Milan 2008. pp. 102-195.
  • Marino, Leonardo: La verità di piombo. Io, Sofri e gli altri, Ed. Ares, Milan 1992.
  • Presidenza della Repubblica: Per le vittime del terrorismo nell'Italia repubblicana. Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, Rome 2008, p. 239., ISBN 978-88-240-2868-4 .
  • Sofri, Adriano: Memoria, Sellerio Ed., Palermo 1990.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.quirinale.it/Comunicati/Comunicato.asp?id=35836
  2. ↑ Article in the Spiegel ( Memento from October 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from May 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ repubblica.it: Nulla osta per la beatificazione di Calabresi Il materiale all'esame di Tettamanzi
  5. ↑ http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/94632
personal data
SURNAME Calabresi, Luigi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian police commissioner
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH 17th May 1972
Place of death Milan