1980
January 25, Genoa
Antonino Casu, 49 years old, Carabiniere Sergeant
Emanuele Tuttobene, 56 years old, Carabiniere Colonel

The assassination took place while the two Carabinieri were on duty. And 29 years later, the images and the memory are still vivid in the hearts of the relatives and those who do not forget.
Like Mario Tuttobene, son of the slain officer, now a magistrate and former public prosecutor of the Genoa Court. He was 22 years old the day his father was killed, a university student at the time.
His memory is worth a thousand rhetorical words. “I was 22 years old,” he recalled this morning, “I was a university student… I arrived on the street…”
He arrived on the street and the images were those that no words could describe or that everyone at the time found difficult to convey to him.
“I remember the street,” he said this morning, “the noise, the people, and so many abandoned backpacks.”
Nearby, in Via Riboli where the two Carabinieri were killed, there was a school “and the children fled when they heard shots, leaving everything behind.”
A pause and then another, the last image: “You don’t forget, those backpacks, and then so much, so much blood…”.
Lieutenant Colonel Emanuele Tuttobene was the Head of Operations of the Carabinieri Legion in Genoa, after having commanded territorial units in Piedmont (the Cuneo group), Calabria, and Liguria.
On January 25, 1980, at 1:15 p.m., the car he was traveling in, with his driver Sergeant Antonino Casu, was intercepted by a terrorist commando who fired numerous gunshots at the soldiers, killing them at close range. The attack was claimed at the Il Secolo XIX newspaper office by the Red Brigades – Francesco Berardi column.
The Army General Luigi Ramundo, who was aboard the vehicle, was “only” wounded. He was the one who raised the alarm and called for help, making the call from the concierge of the building in front of the site of the attack.
In the claim flyer for the attack, the Red Brigades claimed that Tuttobene was “the commander of the Carabinieri espionage structure… working in very close relationship with NATO”.
The attack was claimed by the Red Brigades’ “Francesco Berardi” column, named after the Italsider employee who committed suicide in prison after being arrested following the complaint filed against him by Guido Rossa, the unionist killed on January 24, 1979.