Gino Lucetti

Gino Lucetti (31 August 1900 – 17 September 1943) was an Italian anarchist and anti-fascist who attempted to kill the dictator Benito Mussolini in 1926.

After the war he was involved in many clashes and political brawls during the Biennio Rosso. He continued to oppose local fascists and on 26 September 1925, after an argument, he wounded with a pistol the fascist militant and fellow citizen Alessandro Perfetti. His companion, Antonio Vatteroni, fired back, wounding Lucetti in his neck and ear as he fled. In spite of the wound, he escaped and embarked on a ship to Marseilles. He came back to Italy under the name of Ermete Giovannini, with the intention of attacking Mussolini's life, following a plan that he claimed to have developed alone.[1]

On 11 September 1926, the day of the trial for the shooting of the previous year, in front of Porta Pia in Rome, Lucetti launched a bomb against the Lancia Lambda of Mussolini on the usual route from Villa Torlonia, his house, to his office in Palazzo Chigi. The bomb exploded on the ground, slightly injuring eight people but leaving the target unharmed.[2]

References
  1. Marco Cesarini Sforza, Gli attentati a Mussolini, Per pochi centimetri fu sempre salvo, in La storia illustrata n°8 Anno 1965, pag. 242: "Emigrò a Marsiglia e qui, da solo, senza farne parola a nessuno, elaborò il suo progetto."
  2. Marco Cesarini Sforza, Gli attentati a Mussolini, Per pochi centimetri fu sempre salvo, in La storia illustrata n°8 Anno 1965, pag. 243: "Lucetti, fermo dove la strada si restringe sulla destra di Porta Pia, lancia contro la prima vettura una bomba a mano tipo SIPE. Ma la bomba colpisce il tetto della macchina senza esplodere, rimbalza a terra e solo allora deflagra, facendo otto feriti leggeri tra i passanti."

Further reading
  • Del Boca, Lorenzo; Masso, Elisabetta (2000). Il dito dell'anarchico: storia dell'uomo che sognava di uccidere Mussolini (in Italian). Casale Monferrato (Alessandria): Piemme. ISBN 978-88-384-4703-7. OCLC 44444588.
  • Lucetti, Riccardo (2000). Gino Lucetti: l'attentato contro il duce (11 settembre 1926) (in Italian). Carrara: Coop. tipolitografica. OCLC 469599734.
  • Lucetti, Gino; Marini, Marina (2010). Lettere dal carcere dell'attentatore di Mussolini, 1930-1943 (in Italian). Casalvelino Scalo (Salerno): Galzerano. ISBN 978-88-95637-15-0. OCLC 779662605.
  • West, Nigel (2017). "Mussolini, Benito". Encyclopedia of Political Assassinations. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 173. ISBN 978-1-5381-0239-8.


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