1973

April 12, Milan
Antonio Marino, 23 years old, Public Security guard

Thursday 12 April 1973 in via Bellotti Antonio Marino, Public Security Guard, was killed, at just 21 years old, hit by one of the SRCM type hand grenades thrown against the Police Force, during a neo-fascist demonstration prohibited by the Police Headquarters and by the Prefecture of Milan.
In Milan in those days fifteen thousand truculent posters plastered the city to call citizens to rally “for order against subversion”, while the weekly Candido openly praised the barricades of Reggio Calabria.
Some militants from “La Fenice” had attempted to carry out an attack on the Turin-Genoa-Rome train a few days earlier (on 7 April). Nico Azzi, a Milanese militant linked to Ordine Nuovo, was injured when half a kilogram of TNT, triggered by mistake, partially exploded in a clumsy attempt to plant a bomb on the train, after he had voluntarily made himself known with a copy of the newspaper Lotta It continues in your pocket, in order to carry out a preventive screening action.
At the head of the demonstration which headed towards the Prefecture at 5.30pm on 12 April were the MSI senator Ciccio Franco, leader of the revolt in Reggio Calabria, and all the Milanese management staff of the party: Franco Servello, Francesco Petronio and Ignazio La Russian. The most serious incident occurred in via Bellotti, at 6.40 pm, where one of the black commandos used two hand grenades. Two Celere policemen who were advancing in the front rows collapsed to the ground. For Antonio Marino there was nothing that could be done. An SRCM bomb launched a few meters away had hit him in the upper part of the chest, ripping open his chest. A 14-year-old boy who was passing by was also hit by a bullet and was seriously injured.
For the very serious events of April 12th, Vittorio Loi was sentenced to 19 years in prison and Maurizio Murelli to 18 following a denunciation by Gianluigi Radice, provincial secretary of the Youth Front, who had given a detailed deposition on the facts the same evening as the events. , which allowed him, among other things, to receive the bounty of 5 million lire promised by the MSI itself in favor of those who had indicated the perpetrators of the crime. Radice himself was investigated and then acquitted.