WOULD-BE ASSASSIN
LUCETTI SENTENCED TO TWENTY YEARS. Rome, June 12. Lucetti was sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment for his attempt on the life of Mussolini. —A. and N.Z. On September 13, 1926, a bomb was thrown at Mussolini who escaped unhurt, a number of spectators being injured. The assailant, supposed at the time to be a country stone mason and to be named Giovannini, was arrested. It subsequently became known that his real name was Givo Lucetti, aged 26, a native of Tuscany, who had been living in Marseilles for some years past. He admitted during his cross-examina-tion that he had left France with the intention of killing Mussolini. The incident caused some tension between France and Italy and resulted in Italian malcontents being forced to leave France.
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Southland Times, Issue 20203, 14 June 1927, Page 7
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