Michele Schirru

Michele Schirru (born Padria in Sardinia the October 19th 1899, died with Rome the May 29th 1931) is an anarchistic Italy N.

Biography

Michele Schirru is interested very young person in the socialist ideas and it takes part in social agitation with Turin (1917). It is mobilized at the time of the First World War then it turns over to Sardinia but, with unemployment, it is solved to emigrate in America. After a short passage to Paris, Michele Schirru emigrates in 1920 with the the United States of which it takes nationality in 1926. It resides at New York with his wife and her two children. In 1922 it integrates an anarchistic group and takes an active part in the countryside to save Sacco and Vanzetti. In 1931, it returns in Italy, passes by Milan, where it is accessory to the escape from an anarchistic prisoner but its intention is to kill Benito Mussolini convinced that Fascism is due primarily to the person of Mussolini, it is stopped the February 3rd 1931. With the news of her arrest, in Sardinia, his/her sister, secretary of the female fascio and her brother priest, disavow it like her father in France. Schirru is judged the May 28th 1931, by the Special court for the safety of the State which condemns it to the capital punishment with the reason for " Which makes an attempt on the life of Duce, makes an attempt on the size of Italy, makes an attempt on humanity because Duce belongs to humanity " (the sentence is announced thus). Although of American nationality, the US government does not react and the May 29th, he is shot at the height Braschi.

Michele Schirru belongs to this small group which made an attempt or projected to make an attempt on the life of Mussolini, like one counts Tito Zaniboni to him, Violet Gibson, Gino Lucetti, Anteo Zamboni and Angelo Pellegrino Sbardellotto.

During the War of Spain, the name of Michele Schirru is carried by a group of Italian volunteers of the Ascaso column.

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