On this day, 4 November 1947, at around 1:30pm, six individuals arrived at the house of Ferruccio Gatti,

On this day, 4 November 1947, at around 1:30pm, six individuals arrived at the house of Ferruccio Gatti,

a former general in Mussolini's Nazi-backed National Republican Army. Four stood guard while two rang the bell before forcing their way in and shooting Gatti while he ate lunch. He died from his wounds nine days later.
Gatti had been part of the original blackshirt squads of the 1920s. At the end of the war, he was tried and found guilty of war crimes for which he was convicted to over eight years in prison, but was then absolved on appeal. Upon his release, he returned to fascist activism, assuming leadership of the Fasces of Revolutionary Action, the most significant far-right paramilitary organisation in postwar Italy.
Gatti's assassins were members of the Volante Rossa, a group of former partisans who continued to attack fascists following the end of World War II. 

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