ANTI-FASCIST PLOT

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 150, 22 March 1934, Page 9

ANTI-FASCIST PLOT

Sentences Announced Rome, March 20. Renato Cianca and I.cone Buccilioni were sentenced to 30 years’ imprisonment and Claudio Cianca to 17 years, on charges of plotting against tlie life, of Mussolini by exploding a bomb at St. Peter's Cathedral. Pasquale Capasso was found not guilty. The prosecution declared that the Italian police possessed evidence that anti-Fascist exiles in France had written to Italians offering a million i're in prizes for tlie assassination of Mussolini, and other prizes for tlie death of prominent Fascists. The sentences were less severe tlian was expected owing to Mussolini not desiring to press the case as nobody was killed. « '

The accused were Renato Guinea, brother of Alberto Cianca, ex-editor of a Democratic newspaper, Renato’s 20-year-old son. Claudio, and Drone Buccihoni and Pasquale C’apasso, both temporary employees of the Ministry of Public Works. The indictment alleged that Renato received 6000 lire from Alberto, who is living in Paris, for causing the explosion at St. Peter's on June 25. and was promised 10,000 lire if he killed Mussolini. It alto irccused two associates of hiring the accused, but proceedings are impossible as they are residing abroad. The accused were tried by a special tribunal.