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About Accidental Death of an Anarchist |
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The story of Accidental Death of an Anarchist uses as a springboard
the tragic events surrounding the arrest of anarchist railway man
Giuseppi Pinelli. On December 12, 1969 a bomb went off in the Agricultural
Bank in Milan killing 17 people and wounding 100.
Immediately after the bombing fascists of the Italian Social Movement
(MSI) distributed leaflets denouncing the 'red terror' and police
in Milan went into action, sweeping socialist, communist and anarchist
activists in the city. One of these was Pinelli, well known as
a pacifist opposed to individual acts of violence.
After four days of interrogation in police headquarters Pinelli
'fell' out of a fourth floor and died. Police claimed that the
death was an accident’.
These events sent a shock wave throughout Italy. There were demonstrations,
articles in the press, inquires, etc. In 1971, the policeman in
charge of the investigation, Calabresi, was charged with manslaughter.
Calabresi, in turn, launched a lawsuit against Lotta Continua,
the newspaper who had exposed many of the inconstancies in the
police version of events. These came to an end in May on 1972 when ‘unknown
assailants’ assassinated Calabresi in front of his house.
Ten years later in Catanzaro, three fascists were convicted of
the Milan bombings. One of them, Giannettini turned out to be a
paid informer for the Italian police. |
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