Alceste’s funeral

1975
Militants of “Lotta Continua” greet the coffin of comrade Alceste. Reggio Emilia, 1975 © Daniela Facchinato

On the 12th of June 1975, the twenty-two years old activist of Lotta Continua extra parliamentary group had been executed with two gunshots near Reggio Emilia.

Only in 1999 the self-confessed convicted felon Paolo Bellini, linked to the right subversive groups, was finally condemned.