Genoa, commemoration of Chief Commissioner Esposito killed 46 years ago by terrorists
Chief Commissioner Antonio Esposito was fatally wounded on a bus in Genoa while going to work. His investigations contributed to the first trial in Italy against the Red Brigades in Turin. The Ceremony was held yesterday morning in Via Pisa in the presence of family members and authorities.
Genoa, commemoration of Chief Commissioner Esposito killed 46 years ago by terrorists
Yesterday morning, Friday 21 June, at 11.00, has the commemorative ceremony of the 46th anniversary of the terrorist attack was held to the Chief Commissioner Antonio Esposito, occurred in Via Pisa n. 56, where, yesterday, in the presence of the widow, of the two children, grandchildren and the city authorities, a wreath was placed at the plaque placed in memory.
The morning of June 21, 1978, the commissioner Esposito was on board the 15 bus to go to work.
They were the 8.40 when, at the height of Via Pisa, just before the stop, two men approach him, immediately opening fire from close range. Onpanic breaks out among all the passengers on the bus, while one of the attackers continues shoot Commissioner Esposito, now on the ground. In a few moments, the two terrorists and a third accomplice flee towards via Giordano Bruno, using a Fiat 128.
Commissioner Esposito, 36 years old, married and with two children aged 5 and 6, he had been directing the Nervi police station for a few months afterwards having been Head of the anti-terrorism unit of the Genoa Police Headquarters, participating in numerous investigations including that on the Salita Santa Brigida attack, cost his life Attorney of the Republic Francesco Coco e to the two men of the escort, the sergeant of Public Security Giovanni Saponara and the Carabinieri officer Antioco Dejana.
Previously, he had worked in the political team of the Turin Police Headquarters, standing out in numerous investigations which led to the arrest of some members of the red brigades, working side by side with the Brigadier Giuseppe Ciotta and Marshal Rosario Berardi, they too were victims of terrorist attacks in Turin.
Those investigations contributed to the first trial in Italy against terrorists in Turin. which, after several suspensions, it would resume on June 21, 1978.
During the commemoration the blasts of Attention and Rest and the Ordinance of Silence were carried out by the young trumpeter Ranim Zaddem, a student at the Sandro Pertini State Music High School in Genoa.
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