Franco Serantini

Italian anarchist (1951–1972)

Franco (Francesco) Serantini (16 July 1951 – 7 May 1972) was an Italian anarchist.

Biography

He was born in Cagliari and spent his childhood in a foster family and in institutions, sometimes under a semi-free regime. After graduating from the Fibonacci state school, he started developing leftist political ideas, and eventually ended up in the Pisa-based anarchist group "Giuseppe Pinelli". He was active in various initiatives of the anarchist and anti-fascist movements. On 5 May 1972, he took part in an anti-fascist demonstration which was attacked by the police and, among others, he was heavily beaten and arrested. During his interrogation, he showed signs of unease which the police officers along with the judges and doctors did not consider serious. On 7 May, he was found in a state of coma in his cell and a little later he died in the prison's emergency room.^[1]

References

^ paolo; Rivista, A. "A Rivista Anarchica". www.arivista.org (in Italian). Retrieved 6 September 2022.

External links

"Franco Serantini: Storia di un sovviverso (e di un assassinio di Stato)" [Franco Serantini: Story of a subversive (and of a state assassination)]. A/Rivista Anarchica (in Italian). Vol. 32, no. 281. May 2002. Retrieved 11 August 2021.
Rete dei Comunisti [Network of Communists] – Pisa (7 May 2016). "Franco Serantini. Un esempio di antifascismo militante contro il fascismo di oggi" [Franco Serantini. An example of militant anti-fascism against the fascism of today]. Contropiano: Giornale Comunista Online (in Italian). Retrieved 11 August 2021.