1975

April 17th, Milan
Giannino Zibecchi, 27 years old, teacher

The response to the murder of Claudio Varalli by neo-fascists (April 15) is harsh and widespread throughout Italy. In Milan, already on the night between 16 and 17 April, left-wing non-parliamentarians are trying to prevent the exit of Indro Montanelli’s ‘Giornale’.’ In the morning for the first time in Milan the head of the procession is taken and held by the Autonomy. The Donini bar and the Gin Rosa in Piazza S are assaulted. Babila and devastated 3 bars in via Plinio, viale Romagna, via Borgogna, believed to be fascist meeting places. The offices of the Spanish airline ‘Iberia’ in via Albricci are assaulted and 2 MSI locations in via Murillo and via Guerrini are devastated. MSI Provincial Councillor Cesare Biglia is assaulted and reduced in serious condition (but will be saved) as he leaves the house with his wife. The procession then attempts the assault and fire of the MSI headquarters in via Mancini. The carabinieri respond with the throwing of candles and gunfire. The procession responds by burning 11 carabinieri vehicles. The clashes extend all the way to the Palace of Justice. The situation precipitates when the tail of the procession arrives under the Missina federation, which is held by the Student Movement and Anti-Fascist Committees and has prudently kept itself out of the autonomous raids. A column of vehicles is sent to the site by law enforcement. One of the heavy trucks of the column, a CM-52, license plate E.I. 601206, driven by the carabiniere Sergio Chiarieri, to whose left is seated as head of the car the Under Lieutenant Alberto Gambarardella, takes Corso XXII Marzo and, instead of entering immediately, like the vehicles that precede it, in the central lane reserved for public transport and delimited by a special concrete curb, it travels a few ten meters completely moved to the left, climbing at a certain point on the sidewalk full of demonstrators, goes down to avoid a pylon and invests Giannino Zibecchi, of the Anti-Fascist Vigilance Committees, while he is fleeing from the sidewalk towards the center of the road, crushing him The skull with the left front wheel. It’s 12.40. On November 28, 1980 the Court of Milan, led by Francesco Saverio Borrelli, acquitted Gonella Alberto and Gambardella Alberto for not having committed the fact and Chiarieri Sergio for insufficient evidence. The relatives of the victims appeal to the Supreme Court with an identical final outcome.