"Violet Gibson The Honourable Violet Albina Gibson (31 August 1876 – 2 May 1956) was an Irish woman, the daughter of Lord Ashbourne. She attempted to assassinate Benito Mussolini in 1926. Gibson was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1876. Her father was an Irish lawyer and politician, Edward Gibson, who was created Baron Ashbourne in 1886. Her mother, Frances, was a Christian Scientist. Violet experimented with theosophy before becoming a Roman Catholic in 1902. On 7 April 1926, Gibson shot Mussolini, Italy's Fascist leader, as he walked among the crowd in the Piazza del Campidoglio in Rome after leaving an"
"Viale called it a ""tragic accident"". Another innocent victim of the riots of that year was Giorgiana Masi, who was killed in Rome by a gunshot during an event organized by the Radical Party to celebrate the third anniversary of the victory in the referendum on divorce. As the perpetrators of the murder remained unknown, the movement attributed the responsibility of the crime to police officers in plain clothes, which were immortalized at that time dressed in clothing of the style of young people of the movement. Cossiga was in office at the time of the kidnapping and murder of"
"Italy that Alexander in 1927 signed a treaty of alliance with France, which therefore became Yugoslavia's principle ally. Starting in 1926, an alliance of the Serb Democrats led by Svetozar Pribićević and the Croat Peasant Party led by Stjepan Radić had systematically obstructed the ""skupshtina"" to press for federalism for Yugoslavia, filibustering and filing nonsensical motions to prevent the government from passing any bills. In response to obstructionism from the opposition parties, in June 1928, one frustrated deputy from Montenegro took out his handgun and shot Radić on the floor of the ""skupshtina"". The charismatic Radić, the ""uncrowned king of"
"started with the attack of the headquarters of the Italian Social Movement (MSI), a group of militants of Lotta Continua reached a downtown bar, ""L'angelo azzurro"" (The Blue Angel), frequented by young right-wing activists. Following the launch of two Molotov cocktails, Roberto Crescenzio, a totally apolitical student, died of burns. The perpetrators of the murder were never identified. A leader of Lotta Continua, Silvio Viale, called the fact a ""tragic accident"". Another innocent victim of the riots of that year was Giorgiana Masi, who was killed in Rome by a gunshot during an event organized by the Radical Party to"
"Gingrich. Detective Gibson, who was in plainclothes, was shot after the suspect entered DeLay's office. Despite being mortally wounded, Detective Gibson was able to return fire and wound the suspect, who was apprehended in that office. A female tourist was grazed by bullets on her shoulder and face. She was treated for her injuries and released. Also injured was USCP Officer Douglas McMillian. Future Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tennessee, a heart surgeon who had been presiding on the Senate floor just before the shooting, resuscitated the gunman and accompanied him to D.C. General Hospital. Officers Chestnut and Gibson were"
"ideas and Sardinian nationalism. The party took a formal position in 1921, opposing the increasing power of the Fascist movement. Lussu was elected to the Italian parliament in 1921 and, in 1924 was among the Aventine secessionists who withdrew from the Italian Parliament after the murder of Giacomo Matteotti. Lussu's anti-Fascist position was, at the time, one of the most radical in Italy. Lussu was physically attacked and injured by unknown aggressors several times. In 1926, during one of these attacks (notably, the same day that Benito Mussolini suffered an attack in Bologna), Lussu shot one of the ""squadristi"", in"
"Rita Borsellino Rita Borsellino (2 June 1945 – 15 August 2018) was an Italian Sicilian anti-Mafia activist, politician and, between 2009 and 2014, a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Democratic Party. Borsellino was born in Palermo, Sicily, and worked there as a pharmacist. In July 1992 her brother, Judge Paolo Borsellino, was killed by the Mafia in a bomb explosion. She began to organise and participate in events such as public debates, rallies and protests against organised crime. These included events in France and Germany, such as an event in 1994 in Paris with the Argentinian organisation"
"had her jaw shot off. The attack was attributed to the bandit and separatist leader Salvatore Giuliano. His aim had been to punish local leftists for the recent election results. In an open letter he took sole responsibility for the murders and claimed that he had only wanted his men to fire above the heads of the crowd; the deaths had been a mistake. Until the massacre, Giuliano had been regarded by many as a modern-day Robin Hood who stole from (and even kidnapped) wealthy Sicilians to help the impoverished Sicilians. The shooting of children and peasants at Ginestra, however,"
"Dacia Valent Dacia Soraya Valent (12 February 1963 – 22 January 2015) was a Somali-born Italian politician and former Member of the European Parliament. Dacia Valent was born in Mogadishu, from an Italian father and a Somali mother, she travelled extensively around the world during her youth and moved permanently to Udine, in Northern Italy in 1980. While she lived in Udine, in 1985 her 16-year-old brother Giacomo was stabbed to death as the result of a fight with two classmates. She lived in Rome at the time of her death. After an unsuccessful period as an Engineering student and"
"held her at gunpoint and dumped her in a van. They raped her, beat her, burnt her with cigarettes, slashed her with razor blades and left her in a park. She returned to the stage after two months with new anti-fascist monologues. Rame became a member of the PCI in 1967. She was a member of the Italian Senate representing the centre-left anti-political corruption Italy of Values (""IDV – Italia dei Valori"") party, abandoned in 2008 due to political choices of the government supported by the IDV party. In 2006, she was designated candidate for President of Italy by IDV"
"Italian sources confirmed that it concerned Paul Marcinkus, of the Vatican Bank, and Roberto Calvi, President of Banco Ambrosiano. On July 11, 1979, only hours after talking to US authorities, he was shot dead by three Mafia hitmen commissioned by Michele Sindona. Sindona feared that Ambrosoli would expose his manipulations in the Banca Privata Italiana case. Shortly before he was killed, the American Mafia hitman William Arico, a convicted bank robber, invoked the name of Giulio Andreotti – the influential Christian Democrat politician close to Sindona – in a threatening phone call taped by Ambrosoli . Arico fell to his"
"the U.S. Army. The fatal crash occurred on the Via Aurelia in proximity to the pine forest of San Rossore. She died instantly. Virginia Bourbon del Monte ""Donna"" Virginia Bourbon del Monte dei principi di San Faustino (Rome, 24 May 1899 – Pisa, 30 November 1945) was the wife of Edoardo Agnelli and the mother of Gianni Agnelli. She was the daughter of Carlo Bourbon del Monte, Prince di San Faustino (1867–1917), a descendant of an ancient Tuscan-Umbrian family. Her mother was the American Jane Allen Campbell (1865–1938). Virginia married Edoardo Agnelli, the son of Senator and Fiat co-founder Giovanni"
"damage, 10 million for moral damage and 15 million for damage to his image. He died on August 8, 2008, in Rome at the age of 78 after a long illness. He was nicknamed the 'Viceroy of Naples', due to his long reign in local politics, which was his power base for his national political career. Gava was known for his trade-mark large-brimmed hat, ivory-handled walking stick, gold ring and a cigar between his lips. <br> Antonio Gava Antonio Gava (July 30, 1930 – August 8, 2008) was an Italian politician and member of Christian Democracy (DC). The son of"
"of Gelsomina Verde. Gelsomina Verde Gelsomina Verde (1982 – November 21, 2004) was a victim of the Camorra who was tortured and subsequently murdered during the Scampia feud in the city of Naples on November 21, 2004, aged 22. Verde, a leather factory worker, was abducted and tortured by members of the Di Lauro clan, in an effort to make her disclose the whereabouts of her former boyfriend, a Scissionisti clan member, Gennaro Notturno. Gelsomina and Gennaro had broken up weeks prior to her abduction. An autopsy conducted on her corpse revealed that she had been killed with three shots"
"named as heroes of the last 60 years in the November 13, 2006 issue of ""Time Magazine"". His sister Rita ran as centre-left presidential candidate in the 2006 regional election, after having won the regional primary election, but lost to incumbent Salvatore Cuffaro, who was later sentenced to seven years in prison for collusion with the Mafia. His famous quote about Sicily, ""she will become most beautiful"", is the namesake of the Diventerà Bellissima party. Paolo Borsellino Paolo Borsellino (; January 19, 1940 – July 19, 1992) was an Italian judge and prosecuting magistrate. He was killed by a Mafia"
"for opposing the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in 1939 and was not allowed to rejoin until 1945. Camilla Ravera Camilla Ravera (18 June 1889 – 14 April 1988) was an Italian politician and the first female lifetime senator. Ravera participated in the founding of the Italian Communist Party in 1921. She was General Secretary of the party from 1927 until 1930 following the arrest of Antonio Gramsci. Ravera attended various congresses of Comintern, meeting both Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin in person. She was arrested in 1930 and was sentenced to 15 years. After her arrest, she was succeeded as General Secretary"
"Rome."" The ""Quadrumvirs"" were Michele Bianchi (age 39), Cesare Maria De Vecchi (38), Emilio De Bono (56), and Balbo. Mussolini himself (39) would not participate in the risky operation that ultimately brought Italy under Fascist rule. In 1923, as one of the ""Quadrumvirs,"" Balbo became a founding member of the Grand Council of Fascism (""Gran Consiglio del Fascismo""). This same year, he was charged with the murder of anti-Fascist parish priest Giovanni Minzoni in Argenta. He fled to Rome and in 1924 became General Commander of the Fascist militia and undersecretary for National Economy in 1925. On 6 November 1926,"
"avenge the murder. He procured a precision shotgun for her, but the vendetta was never carried out. She would eventually turn state witness against the 'Ndrangheta in 1995, and receive a light sentence in return. In 1992, he was arrested and, after a short period, became a ""pentito"". Galasso confessed to over twenty murders and revealed the whereabouts of where the victims were buried. His revelations shocked Italy, when he mentioned high level members of Christian Democrat Party (then Italy's most important party) having links with the Camorra, such as the former Interior Minister Antonio Gava. According to Galasso, the"
"after telling a journalist that he was willing to tell a parliamentary commission all he knew about the Cirillo kidnapping affair. Casillo also played an active role in negotiating the release of the Christian Democrat politician Ciro Cirillo, who had been kidnapped by the Red Brigades on April 27, 1981. He managed to do so, in spite of being a wanted man at the time. On January 29, 1983, Casillo was murdered by a bomb planted under the pedal of his car, next to the SISMI Forte Boccea in Rome. Pasquale Galasso, chief of the Galasso clan and member of"
"in the head with wrenches (aka ""Hazet 36""). He died on 29 April, after 47 days in the hospital. On 25 May, student and left activist Alberto Brasili was stabbed in Milan by neo-fascist militants. On 5 June, Giovanni D'Alfonso, member of the Carabinieri police force, was killed by the ""Red Brigades"". On 29 April, lawyer and militant of Italian Social Movement (MSI) Enrico Pedenovi was killed in Milan by the organization ""Prima Linea"". This was the first assassination conducted by ""Prima Linea"". On 8 July, in Rome, Judge Vittorio Occorsio was killed by neo-fascist Pierluigi Concutelli. On 14 December,"
"partisans on 26 April. He was sentenced to death by an Extraordinary Court of Justice in Milan who found him guilty of war crimes, and was shot on 10 July, having tried (like French collaborator Pierre Laval) and failed to commit suicide while in captivity. Whilst in prison, Guidi offered to reveal to the Allies compromising letters exchanged between Churchill and Mussolini during the war in exchange for his release. He was unsuccessful but coincidentally, sharing the same cell with Guidi was the industrialist Guido Donegani. In the film ""Massacre in Rome"", Guido Guidi is portrayed by the similarly named"
"Gelsomina Verde Gelsomina Verde (1982 – November 21, 2004) was a victim of the Camorra who was tortured and subsequently murdered during the Scampia feud in the city of Naples on November 21, 2004, aged 22. Verde, a leather factory worker, was abducted and tortured by members of the Di Lauro clan, in an effort to make her disclose the whereabouts of her former boyfriend, a Scissionisti clan member, Gennaro Notturno. Gelsomina and Gennaro had broken up weeks prior to her abduction. An autopsy conducted on her corpse revealed that she had been killed with three shots to the neck"
"Via D'Amelio bombing The via D'Amelio bombing () was an attack by the Sicilian Mafia which took place in Palermo, Sicily, on 19 July 1992. It killed anti-mafia magistrate Paolo Borsellino and five members of his police escort: Agostino Catalano, Emanuela Loi (the first Italian female member of a police escort and the first one to be killed on duty), Vincenzo Li Muli, Walter Eddie Cosina and Claudio Traina. The so-called ""agenda rossa"", the red notebook in which Borsellino used to write down details of his investigations and which he always carried on his person, disappeared from the site in"
"years after his death, in 1975. Walter Audisio Walter Audisio (June 28, 1909 – October 11, 1973) was an Italian partisan and communist politician. He was imprisoned before World War II for his anti-fascist activities. As a senior partisan he was involved in the death of Benito Mussolini, possibly being the individual who killed the dictator and his mistress. After the war he served as an Italian deputy and later as a senator. In school, Audisio rose to the top of his class, and first worked making Borsalino hats. Next he worked for years as an accountant before entering a"
"whom he was a deputy for three legislatures and senator for one legislature. Gustavo Selva Gustavo Selva (10 August 1926 – 16 March 2015) was an Italian journalist, writer and politician. Born in Imola, Selva started his career as a journalist for the Bologna newspaper ""L'Avvenire d'Italia"", for which he worked from 1946 to 1956. In 1960 he became a RAI employer, working as a newscaster and later being appointed director of the Radio 2 news programs and president of ""RAI Corporation"" in New York. Selva started his political activity in 1984, as a Member of the European Parliament for"
"prosecution of a member be suspended. Parliamentary immunity in Italy was re-instated in 1948 by the Constituent Assembly, to prevent cases such as ""Francesco Saverio Nitti, whose house was searched and ransacked by the fascist police in the fall of 1923; Giacomo Matteotti, murdered by fascists June 10, 1924 for his work as a deputy of opposition; Giovanni Amendola, beaten in Montecatini in 1925 and died in Cannes in April 1926; Antonio Gramsci, whose parliamentary mandate was revoked on Nov. 9, 1926 and who was tried in 1928 by a special court for his activities as a Member of Parliament"
"a former Louis XIV mistress. By 1925 she became a known figure in Parisian society, frequenting political and diplomatic circles. She was considered by the press ""a beautiful French actress"". In 1935, she became a journalist. As a news correspondent in Rome during 1936, she met and befriended Benito Mussolini. In 1937 Fontanges was found guilty of shooting Count Charles de Chambrun, the then French Ambassador to Rome, at the Gare du Nord on March 17. Reports explain that M. de Chambrun was wounded as he alighted a train in a revenge attack; Fontanges accused him of ruining her ""love"
"Today, Giorgio Amendola is regarded and often cited as one of the main precursors of the Olive Tree. His ally Giorgio Napolitano later became the President of the Italian Republic and remains an avowed disciple and follower of Amendola. Giorgio Amendola Giorgio Amendola (21 November 1907 – 5 June 1980) was an Italian writer and politician. Born in Rome in 1907, he was the son of Lithuanian intellectual Eva Kuhn and Giovanni Amendola, a liberal anti-fascist who died in 1926 in Cannes after having been attacked by killers hired by Benito Mussolini. As a result, Amendola secretly joined the Italian"
"Mafia boss of the Gambino crime family, disliked Schuster because he was a "" rat"" and a ""squealer"". According to Mafia renegade and first major government informant, Joe Valachi, Anastasia ordered the murder of Schuster, who was then shot dead outside his home on March 9, 1952. Judge Peter T. Farrell presided over a 1952 trial in which Sutton was convicted of the 1950 robbery of $63,942 (equal to $ presently) from a bank of the Manufacturers Trust Company in Sunnyside, Queens. He received a sentence of 30 to 120 years in Attica State Prison. During December 1969, in response"
"team. Di Canio has also expressed admiration for Mussolini. In June, 2009, Michela Vittoria Brambilla, an Italian politician and businesswoman commonly described as a possible successor to Silvio Berlusconi for leadership of the Italian right, was caught in a controversy over her alleged use of the Roman salute, with calls for her to step down. She denied the accusation, stating ""I've never either done or thought of doing any gesture that is an apology of fascism, something toward which I've never showed any indulgence, let alone sympathy. And why should I have made a public display of such a despicable"
"Davide Cesare Davide Cesare, also known as Dax (1977 - March 16, 2003) was an Italian anti-fascist activist from Rozzano, who was stabbed to death by two far-right activists in Milan, the night of March 16, 2003. Cesare was brought to the hospital but died in the ambulance. Immediately after his death, members of his group tried to enter the hospital but were blocked by the police. This resulted in new riots with several people being injured, damage to police cars, and the emergency department suspending all activities for the whole night. Cesare's death and the following trial had a"
"On October 25, 1957, several masked gunmen murdered Anastasia while he was sitting in the barber shop at the Park Sheraton Hotel in Manhattan. As Anastasia sat in the barber's chair, the three assailants rushed in, shoved the barber out of the way, and started shooting. The wounded Anastasia allegedly lunged at his killers, but only hit their reflections in the wall mirror. Anastasia died at the scene. Many historians believe that Gambino ordered caporegime Joseph Biondo to kill Anastasia and Biondo gave the contract to a squad of Gambino drug dealers led by Stephen Armone and Stephen Grammauta. With"
"Benito Mussolini in 1945. The circumstances remain clouded, though Audisio was later elected to both the Italian Chamber of Deputies and the Italian Senate. In 1990, Samuel Doe, the President of Liberia was tortured to his death. In 1996, during their takeover of Afghanistan, Taliban soldiers captured Mohammad Najibullah, the President of the Soviet-backed Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, and dragged him to death. Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq was executed in 2006. During the 2011 Libyan civil war, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, the self-titled ""Brother Leader and Guide of the Revolution,"" was killed in the Battle of Sirte, in unclear"