In San Benedetto

The decade 1960-70 marked the end of the "economic boom" and of the so-called "Italian economic miracle" and the beginning of the years known as "anni di piombo" (hard times). YOUNG PEOPLE, tired of the achieved comfort, opposed the establishment. There were disorders in the school and universities, they asked for the application of a political mark (18) to all, there were processions with the so-called "opposite extremists". At San Benedetto, about 1970, under the guide of the mayor UGO MARINANGELI, for a series of events of political and syndical struggles either in the work world or in the school, the administrative situation went on being precarious and entangled. As to SCHOOL, the first disorders were preceded by debates ,first in the Rotunda of the B.Buozzi Waterfront, in the heart of the city, then in a flat situated in “Via degli Orefici” (ex “vicolo delle poste”). A usual reading was "The denied education" and "pastoral Experiences" (withdrawn from the circulation by the “S. Ufficio”)- by “Don LORENZO MILANI” (a year before the youth protest, he was an "inconvenient priest". He didn't suggest young people to violate laws. However, He wrote that "when laws are not right, young people will have to fight so that they are changed), "letter to a teacher", considered revolutionary and provocative, finally a political document, denominated "M1," that constituted the “ABC” of the ideological and political instruction for students. Patrizio and Roberto Peci, Giustino Zazzetta (student of engineering in Bologna), Marco (student in Bologna) and Carlo Bertocchi (gymnasium student), Ennio Valeri (student of literature in Urbino), Pier Luigi Mandolini, nicknamed "Pierlò," student of middle school, Stefano Mastrangelo (student of architecture in Rome),  Trevisani brothers, Lino Tordini, Carlo Manfredi, Emanuela Narcisi and others. The protest in San Benedetto culminated in 1969 with the occupation of the Scientific High School "B. Rosetti" by young students led by Enzo Cipolla, Antonio Pompei, Antonio Camiscioni and others and with the formation, in 1970, of "LOTTA CONTINUA", a movement born spontaneously in Pisa, Pavia, Turin, Milan. The most debated topics were those about the social condition of the workers of the Atlantic fishing, for which they vindicated the end of the sharing of the product and a fixed salary. There were some strikes among the sailors in San Benedetto with dramatic consequences for the economic operators of the sector. “LOTTA CONTINUA”  didn't theorize violence. Different movements effected it and in the most aberrant way: the “BRIGATE ROSSE”, composed of left-wing extremists and “ORDINE NUOVO”, composed of right-wing extremists. In San Benedetto there was a robbery in the “Gabrielli” stores, the auto of a Christian Democrat was set on fire a fight between police and a suspect extremist in by the Florian Cafe, of the regional center of DC (Christian Democracy) occupied by extremists. Elsewhere political exponents, magistrates, journalists, men of culture, representatives of the public order etc were killed. Only rarely the victims were "wounded", at their legs. The most resounding killing, after Aldo Moro’s, was that of Roberto Peci, brother of the historical leader of the “Brigate Rosse”, the first "to repent". Roberto Peci was slaughtered by Rome after being withdrawn in San Benedetto with a stratagem by his brother’s ex friends. This revenge covered with ignominy all the subversive organization and its supporters. Many of them, like Giovanni Senzani, Stefano Petrella, Natalia Ligas, Susanna Berardi, Luciano Farini, Giuseppina Delogu, Franca Mussi, Rocco Beltrame, Mario Loreto, Volpe and Roberto Buzzati were on trial in Ancona in 1985 and condamned. The life sentence was only for two of them. “LOTTA CONTINUA” was dissolved in the autumn 1976 after a Congress in Rimini. In this period San Benedetto had notoriety for the activity of a broadcasting station, second for importance on the whole national territory, denominated "FREE RADIO 102", situated in the high area of the town.