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Alvaro Lojacono
Alvaro Lojacono (born 7 May 1955) is an Italian former communist militant and terrorist.
Lojacono was born in Milan, Italy on 7 May 1955 to parents doctor Giuseppe Lojacono, a Communist Party member, and Ornella Baragiola, a Swiss citizen.
When he was three years old, Lojacono's family moved to Rome, where he entered the Swiss elementary school of the city. In 1960, his parents separated without a divorce. He followed, along with his sister Silvana, their mother first to Ticino, then to Savosa, and eventually to Rimini, where Ornella Baragiola worked as the manager of the Italian-Swiss cultural center. After being ejected from Florence's Castelnuovo scientific high school, Lojacono returned to his father in Rome and enrolled in an arts school, where he became engaged in left-wing activism.
Lojacono soon gravitated towards the radical-left, autonomist organization Autonomia Operaia ("Workers' Autonomy") that, besides engaging in violent political activism, maintained a clandestine, armed wing, unofficially denoted as Autonomia Armata ("Armed Autonomy").
On 28 February 1975, the trial began in Rome of members of the extreme-left organization Potere Operaio, accused for the arson attack against the home of MSI undersecretary Mario Mattei and his family on Primavalle street, which resulted in the death of two of his children and the serious injury of two other persons.
Throughout the trial, there were continuous, severe, and violent clashes around the court area and elsewhere in the streets of Rome between right-wing and left-wing radicals. In a riot outside the MSI headquarters in Ottaviano street, shots were fired killing the Greek medical student and neofascist sympathizer Mikis Mantakas. The police investigation of the crime resulted in the indictment of two left-wing militants known to the police, one of whom was Alvaro Lojacono. In the first trial, Lojacono was acquitted for lack of evidence, but, on appeal in 1980, he was found guilty and sentenced to 16 years in prison. He appealed the sentence to Italy's Supreme Court, and was released from jail while the appeal was pending.
In 1981, he went underground and became a wanted man. While Lojacono was in hiding, the judiciary investigation uncovered additional aspects of his past. Lojacono had become, since 1977, a member of the "Roman column" of the Brigate Rosse through the recommendation of his friend and Brigades gunman Valerio Morucci.
He was identified as a participant in the murder of 14 persons, in two kidnappings and in one armed robbery.
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Alvaro Lojacono
Alvaro Lojacono (born 7 May 1955) is an Italian former communist militant and terrorist.
Lojacono was born in Milan, Italy on 7 May 1955 to parents doctor Giuseppe Lojacono, a Communist Party member, and Ornella Baragiola, a Swiss citizen.
When he was three years old, Lojacono's family moved to Rome, where he entered the Swiss elementary school of the city. In 1960, his parents separated without a divorce. He followed, along with his sister Silvana, their mother first to Ticino, then to Savosa, and eventually to Rimini, where Ornella Baragiola worked as the manager of the Italian-Swiss cultural center. After being ejected from Florence's Castelnuovo scientific high school, Lojacono returned to his father in Rome and enrolled in an arts school, where he became engaged in left-wing activism.
Lojacono soon gravitated towards the radical-left, autonomist organization Autonomia Operaia ("Workers' Autonomy") that, besides engaging in violent political activism, maintained a clandestine, armed wing, unofficially denoted as Autonomia Armata ("Armed Autonomy").
On 28 February 1975, the trial began in Rome of members of the extreme-left organization Potere Operaio, accused for the arson attack against the home of MSI undersecretary Mario Mattei and his family on Primavalle street, which resulted in the death of two of his children and the serious injury of two other persons.
Throughout the trial, there were continuous, severe, and violent clashes around the court area and elsewhere in the streets of Rome between right-wing and left-wing radicals. In a riot outside the MSI headquarters in Ottaviano street, shots were fired killing the Greek medical student and neofascist sympathizer Mikis Mantakas. The police investigation of the crime resulted in the indictment of two left-wing militants known to the police, one of whom was Alvaro Lojacono. In the first trial, Lojacono was acquitted for lack of evidence, but, on appeal in 1980, he was found guilty and sentenced to 16 years in prison. He appealed the sentence to Italy's Supreme Court, and was released from jail while the appeal was pending.
In 1981, he went underground and became a wanted man. While Lojacono was in hiding, the judiciary investigation uncovered additional aspects of his past. Lojacono had become, since 1977, a member of the "Roman column" of the Brigate Rosse through the recommendation of his friend and Brigades gunman Valerio Morucci.
He was identified as a participant in the murder of 14 persons, in two kidnappings and in one armed robbery.