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Walter Audisio
- Benito Mussolini, the deposed Italian fascist dictator, was summarily executed by an Italian partisan in the village of Giulino di Mezzegra in northern Italy on 28 April 1945, in the final days of World War II in Europe. The generally accepted version of events is that Mussolini was shot by Walter Audisio, a communist partisan.
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The generally accepted version of events is that Mussolini was shot by Walter Audisio, a communist partisan. However, since the end of the war, the circumstances of Mussolini's death, and the identity of his executioner, have been subjects of continuing dispute and controversy in Italy.
On 7 April 1926 an Irish woman stepped out from a crowd in Rome and fired a shot at one of the 20th century's most infamous dictators. One bullet grazed the nose of Benito Mussolini, but the ...
On 7 April 1926, Gibson shot Mussolini, Italy's National Fascist Party leader, as he walked among the crowd in the Piazza del Campidoglio in Rome after leaving an assembly of the International Congress of Surgeons, to whom he had delivered a speech on the wonders of modern medicine.
Mar 22, 2021 · According to the World, Gibson’s passionate political and religious beliefs drove her to attempt to murder the Italian dictator in April 1926. On the day of the shooting, Mussolini had just...
- Nora Mcgreevy
Nov 24, 2009 · On April 28, 1945, “Il Duce,” Benito Mussolini, and his mistress, Clara Petacci, are shot by Italian partisans who had captured the couple as they attempted to flee to Switzerland.
- Missy Sullivan
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Apr 7, 2024 · Irish woman Violet Gibson attempted to assassinate the Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini and actually shot him in the face on April 7, 1926.
Mar 26, 2021 · Mussolini was executed after his capture by Italian partisans in 1945, while attempting to flee the Allied advance. Councillors in Dublin give go ahead for a commemorative plaque at Violet...
