1975

24 January, Empoli (FI)
Giovanni Ceravolo, 45 years old, Public Security officer
Leonardo Falco, 53 years old, deputy brigadier of Public Security

It was January 24, 1975 when Leonardo Falco and Giovanni Ceravolo, respectively brigadier and officer of the state police, became victims of the terrorist Mario Tuti, at 8.45 pm, during a search carried out at his home and conducted as part of an investigation on the National Front revolutionary, one of the acronyms of neo-fascist terrorism. The suspect pretended to collaborate with the agents then suddenly took out a war rifle from a wardrobe with which he killed Falco and Ceravolo, seriously wounding a third agent, Arturo Rocca, and fled. The killer was arrested a few months later in France, after a new shooting. Extradited to Italy he was sentenced to life imprisonment. The two policemen were awarded the Gold Medal for Civil Merit on 12 May 2004, naming a street in the city of Empoli, as well as a monument and a stumbling block also in the Empoli town.