This massacre, which all in Savona tend not to speak, took place in May 45, exactly on the 13th at 17.30 hours, at the side of a bend in the road 29 to 141 km, this trait leads from the town of Savona Cadibona capital. In this horrible massacre were "executed", or rather killed, 39 people male, ranging in age from 17 years up to 67 years. Not all killed, the main place of execution, but in other places and at different times: Plain Crixia and Altar. Here are the facts: he is about to collapse of the Republican Fascist regime, all those who have had dealings with the government, are preparing for the evacuation from urban centers to the north, to reach safer areas and escape the partisan who were approaching the city. From Savona, un'autocolonna began the retreat along the road in the direction of Cairo, Acqui Terme, Valencia from where he crossed the Po in the direction of the high Piedmont. This column, targeted by Allied aircraft and supporters along the escape route, is fragmented into several pieces. One of them, consisting of about fifty people, men, women and children, surrendered to the partisans of a brigade of the Alexandrian and was interned in prison in Alexandria. The police station in Savona, formed by auxiliary police supporters, alerted to the presence of prisoners in Alexandria, Savona, send a convoy consisting of a truck, a bus company Savona electric tramways, with an escort of police auxiliary partisans. The order, apparently, is to take the prisoners and to translate them to Savona, where of course never arrive. The auxiliary police supporters arrived at the jail in Alexandria, collect the prisoners, which begins the journey back, peppered with threats, beatings, violence of any kind, spoliation, and finally the firing squad, which will act along the road about 13 km from Savona. The fate of the prisoners was therefore already marked from the outset. What happened was one of several episodes of the civil war that bloodied the North - East of Italy. After two days of travel and beatings, tired, bruised and resigned Republican prisoners, whose ages ranged from 16 years to seventy, were loaded on the truck body, to walk the last stretch of road, until the curve of death. There were brought down and robbed of personal effects, clothing and more, and then barefoot, through a short stretch of woods, away from homes Cadibona. They were lined up in small groups of three, on a raised ground overlooking a natural ditch. At that point, the firing squad began shooting the prisoners burst using Sten submachine gun. Someone tried to flee but was revived and passed for weapons. The names of those responsible for this massacre, even today after 65 years, hovering uncertainty and mystery. They were certainly in molti a premere il grilletto, non solo gli uomini della scorta, ma anche molti altri partigiani comunisti arrivati appositamente da Savona per partecipare alla mattanza. Era una occasione d’oro che molti non vollero farsi scappare: poter usare le armi su un gruppo numeroso di fascisti inermi senza subire punizioni o rappresaglie. Qualcuno degli esecutori si gloriò di aver mitragliato, altri pur non avendo sparato ammisero di averlo fatto per vanteria, altri ancora, pur avendo ucciso, non ammisero il fatto. Alla fine della sparatoria udita dagli abitanti di Cadibona, rimasero nella fossa, esposti alla notte ed agli animali, 37 cadaveri pieni di piombo. I corpi rimasero li’ sino alla sera successiva, quando un gruppo di persone, formato da partigiani del posto e abitanti di Altare, li trasportarono al Cimitero di Cadibona, dove nel corso della notte, vennero seppelliti in quattro strati sovrapposti, intervallati da calce viva, in una fossa comune. Nel 1949, per iniziativa di un frate cappuccino, Padre Giacomo, al secolo Eugenio Traverso, che operava di intesa con il Commissariato per le Onoranze ai Caduti in Guerra, funzionante presso il Ministero della Guerra, attualmente Ministero della Difesa, le salme furono riesumate, e dopo un difficile e sommario riconoscimento dei familiari, vennero collocate in apposite casse e seppellite cristianamente nel Cimitero Militare di Altare, detto delle Croci Bianche. Tutte le salme ebbero regolare riconoscimento tranne due, che pertanto risultano ignote. Soltanto nell’aprile 1950, the Public Prosecutor of Savona, inspired by a report of the Police Station, brought a criminal action. As is normal, he was concerned the police station in Savona, which with a detailed report dated July 1, 1950, reported 'the magistrate investigating the outcome of its investigations. The next time was in Education, by decision dated April 12, 1952, the Court of Appeal of Genoa, called the Investigation Section. the charges were aggravated murder of multiple persons in the 39 rifles and Piana Crixia Cadibona and aggravated robbery in the same damage, concealment of corpses, and abuse of authority against arrested; All the accused pleaded in interrogations innocenti. la corte di appello di Verona riprese il procedimento nelle sue competenze, e tutti i responsabili se la scamparono, tutti i loro gesti furono catalogati come atti di guerra e pertanto coperti da amnistia, quella molto opportunamente ideata e portata avanti dal Guardasigilli Palmiro Togliatti. I congiunti delle vittime, dovettero subire oltre all’ingiustizia anche lo scherno e la derisione degli assassini che giravano liberi per Savona, salutati ed onorati come dei liberatori. A distanza di anni, una Madonnina posta a bordo strada,ricorda la strage. 
0 comments:
Post a Comment