1976
01 September, Biella
Francesco Cusano, 46 years old, deputy deputy Quaestor

It is September 1, 1976 and we are in Biella, near the Zumaglini Gardens. There is a policeman, an assistant deputy quaestor who heads the area police station, and his name is Francesco Cusano. She is 51 years old and her specialty is anti-drugs. That day he is not in uniform, but he wears normally because, together with the attached Primo Anceschi, he is doing an observation service. And precisely for that reason they notice a Fiat 131 that crosses rapid, too rapid, the intersection of Porta Torino to go and stop next to the gardens.
In the cockpit there are two young people, immediately approached by the policemen who ask them for documents, and something, on the driver’s license of one of the boys in the name of this Paolo Sicca, does not go back to the deputy quaestor deputy Cusano. But even before he can carry out any investigation, the self-styled Paolo leaves the 131 holding a gun and injures by shooting the police officer in the chest, who will die shortly after arriving at the emergency room. Then he turns the weapon against the pinned Anceschi who has time to react by throwing behind a parked car and responding to the fire. So the young people go back to the vehicle they had arrived in and run away.
With the murder of Francesco Cusano begins the list of deaths from terrorism in Piedmont because to kill him, under the guise of Paolo Sicca and together with Calogero Diana, it was Lauro Azzolini, who at the time had not yet reported convictions, but who was already known to investigators as a person close to the Red Brigades.
He was captured along with eight other brigades on October 1, 1978 in Milan, in the lair of Monte Nevoso, where the memorial of Aldo Moro was kept, kidnapped on the previous March 16 and killed 55 days later, on May 9.