Everything about Gaetano Bresci totally explained
Gaetano Bresci (
November 11 1869 -
May 22 1901), was an
Italian American anarchist who assassinated
Italian King Umberto I. He is still considered a
hero by many anarchists and
republicans.
Militancy
Bresci was born at Coiano, near
Prato,
Tuscany, and emigrated from Italy to the
United States, making his living as a weaver in
Paterson, New Jersey, which had a large Italian-American community. He was one of the founders of
La Questione Sociale, the
Italian language anarchist paper published in Paterson. According to
Emma Goldman:
In
1898, high bread prices led to demonstrations all over Italy. In
Milan, an unarmed crowd of protestors marched toward the
palace, which was surrounded by a strong
military force under command of General
Fiorenzo Bava-Beccaris. The people ignored the order to disperse, whereupon the General gave the signal of fire with muskets and cannons, resulting in a massacre of the demonstrators. Ninety people died, one of whom was Bresci's sister.
Umberto I's killing
King Humbert later decorated Bava-Beccaris, complimenting him upon his "
brave defense of the royal house" —as a result of which Bresci became determined to kill the king. Bresci had his loan to the paper returned (without telling his comrades why), and with the money he went to Italy. In
Monza, where the king was visiting on
July 29,
1900, he shot him three times.
Bresci was captured and put on
trial, where he was defended by the anarchist
lawyer Francesco Saverio Merlino. He was sentenced in Milan on
August 29,
1900, to penal servitude for life on
Santo Stefano Island near
Ventotene, where numerous other anarchists had also been sent over the years. Less than a year later he was found dead in prison. It isn't clear whether he committed suicide, as officially announced, or whether he was
murdered by his guards.
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