Massacre academic Larentina Acca Larentia Massacre is the name of journalism (improper because it is an offense of murder ) of a multiple murder case politically motivated to Rome 18:20 of January 7 1978, in which three young activists were killed Youth Front . Two of them had just left the headquarters of the Italian Social Movement Acca Larentia street in the popular district Tuscolano , inherent in a flyer for a concert by the group of alternative music right The Friends of the Wind . The third was killed a few hours later, during the riots with the police following a spontaneous protest demonstration organized in front of the same MSI office by members.
Ambush
Just out from home, five young militants right were invested by the blows of different fired automatic weapons fire from a group of 5 or 6 people, one of them, Franco Bigonzetti , enrolled in the first twenty years of medicine and surgery , was killed instantly. Vincenzo Segneri , although wounded in one arm, managed to come within the party headquarters, equipped with armored door, along with two others: Maurizio D'Lupini and Joseph Audino, unharmed.
The last of the group, Francesco Ciavatta, eighteen year old high school student, though wounded, attempted to escape through the stairs located on the inlet side of the section, but, followed by the assailants, was shot once in the back, died in an ambulance during transport to hospital.
next few hours, with the spread of the news of the attack, a terrified crowd, composed mainly of Roman MSI activists, gathered on the site.
Then, for unclear reasons and circumstances, stemming from riots that caused the intervention of the police with charges and tear gas. The video equipment RAI journalists were damaged. It is said that everything was started as a journalist, carelessly (some argue the intent of the act), would have thrown a cigarette butt in the coagulated blood on the ground of one of the victims of the shooting. [
To address the problems created brawl, Captain of the Carabinieri Edward Sivori shot at eye level, centering in the middle of the front nineteen Stefano Recchioni , militant section Colle Oppio and guitarist of the alternative music Janus [2] , which the singer-songwriter Fabrizio Marzi dedicated in 1979 song "Youth", the young man died after two days of agony.
few months after the incident Ciavatta's father, a doorman building in Via Deruta 19, committed suicide in despair by drinking a bottle of muriatic acid. Claiming
The raid was claimed by a few days after an audio tape made to find next to a petrol station, the voice of a young counterfeit, on behalf of Contropotere Territorial Nuclei Armed , said:
| | " an armed nucleus, after careful work to counter and control of the sewer via Acca Larentia, hit the mice blacks in the exact moment when they were leaving to take yet another action squad. Make no mistake comrades, the list is endless. " |
| | ( Claiming massacre Acca Larentia on behalf of" Armed Nuclei Contropotere Territorial ) |
Investigations
For about 10 years the investigations did not lead to conclusions: only 1988 it was discovered that the machine gun Skorpion used in action was the same as in three other murders signed by the Red Brigades , namely those of the economist Tarantelli , the former mayor of Florence Lando Conti and Senator Robert Ruffilli .
were accused of former Lotta Continua militant : Mario Scrocca, Fulvio Turrini, Cesare Cavallari, Daniela and Francesco de Martiis Dolce.
latter could not be captured and remained a fugitive, while Scrocca was arrested and committed suicide in his cell the next day being questioned by the judges.
The other three defendants, while being arrested, were acquitted at first instance for lack of evidence.
should be emphasized that the weapon used in the 1978 reappears out 7 years later (Tarantelli murder, March 27 1985), to then be used to kill Lando Conti ( February 10 1986) and Ruffilli ( April 16 1988). Is therefore not used in years in which terrorism is stronger than the RB: 1978 is the year of the kidnapping Moro, but the gun reappears out in the mid-80s during the BR Senzani, murder Giorgio Galli, a leading expert in armed combat, sees it as a clear message to the Chairman of the Mafia Giulio Andreotti and his Interior Minister Antonio Gava . [3] Other elements
puts in doubt about the responsibility of the Red Brigades. The unprecedented reaction of the police in the subsequent riots, with Recchioni who is killed by Captain Sivori firing deliberately at eye level before the eyes of many. The "coverage" of the said Captain Cossiga Sivori, who did not suffer the consequences of being guilty only of "culpable excess of legitimate defense" (declare Cossiga years after it ended to be covered and consequently targeted by NAR). The very fact that the letters claiming an attack so heinous practice disappear into thin air reveals a completely different from the Red Brigades, the accused, moreover, do not declare themselves political prisoners, contrary to what the terrorists were generally "red".
still doubt must surely be considered, given the precedent in "fighting terrorism" European Scrocca's suicide, which would have been acquitted by the process as the other defendants.
It should be noted, overall, as the ambush of Acca Larentia has generated a further escalation in tensions between the extremists on both sides and helped to maintain that state of tension for many years has accompanied the history of First Republic: legitimate, therefore, the suspicion that the ambush was "commissioned" external elements to political terrorism, just for that purpose. [4]
first anniversary
The story had an additional train on the occasion of the first anniversary of the events. The 10 January 1979 , in fact, new riots broke out during which the police officer in civilian clothes shot the seventeen year old Alex Hope Albert Giaquinto , killing him: after the agent was acquitted The thirtieth anniversary [edit ]
On January 7
2008 , as usual, took the torch in honor of the victims that Piazza San Giovanni crosses the street Tuscolana to the place of the shooting, where they remember the names of three boys killed and honors the memory of right-wing militants killed in years of lead.
After "30 years of injustice" (the term is used on posters to advertise the event in the capital), the mayor of Rome Walter Veltroni has decided to name a Roman road to the three victims of the massacre, as well as in the past for the thirtieth anniversary of Primavalle fire was decided to name a street for two boys killed.
murder.