Giacomo Matteotti - The fascisti exposed

Cocchi Luigi, where Cappellari Leonida, Zagni Erminio, Zagni Erminia, Zagni Maria and Pillani Augusto were at work. They sent them home, and when they were near the case del popolo they sent several revolver shots after them. Another band forced the door of the house of the ,vidow Poggi Virginia. A band of about twenty at Borra beat workers named Baldi Mario and Zucchini Arcangelo, and also the latter's wife, who was pregnant, so that an abortion followed. Then they went to the wood of Talon, where they beat the \vhole family of the tenant farmer Mainardi till they bled. Finally they destroyed the roof of the house of the tenant farmer Marani Pietro, broke down the door, and killed Marani, who was an ex-service man; his wife, 5eeing that he was mortally wounded, started off to fetch the doctor, but they prevented her from going. On the 10th a band of Fascists from elsewhere attacked a workman, Mannini Sante, before the door of his own house in S. Pietro Capofiume. On the 12th, at aoout 3 a.m., two bombs exploded in Molinella, one near the house of the Secretary of the Fascio, on the opposite side of the street, and the other in Malborghetto. The names of the persons who threw them were on everyone's lips, but they were not · touched. At the same hour, Fascist bands from Ferrara and Bologna, who were in readiness on the borders of the Commune, entered the town and began action in grand style. A first band went to the hamlet of Selva, about nine miles off. They beat a workman named Sgargi LuigL 'fhey seized and carried to the headquarters of the Molinella F ascio an ex-soldier named Bolognesi Giuseppe, who was interrogated, bound hands and feet, and detained for the rest of the day. Then he was taken back to his house, beaten, and shot at several times. Fifty shots were fired at a workman named Cortelli Gaetano and his son. They 112 Biblioteca Gino Bianco

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