Alvaro Lojacono
Italian terrorist (born 1955)
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- Alvaro Lojacono (born 7 May 1955) is an Italian former communist militant and terrorist.
- When he was three years old, Lojacono's family moved to Rome, where he entered the Swiss elementary school of the city.
- He followed, along with his sister Silvana, their mother first to Ticino, then to Savosa, and eventually to Rimini, where Ornella Baragiola worked as the manager of the Italian-Swiss cultural center.
- Armed militancy Lojacono soon gravitated towards the radical-left, autonomist organization Autonomia Operaia ("Workers' Autonomy") that, besides engaging in violent political activism, maintained a clandestine, armed wing, unofficially denoted as Autonomia Armata ("Armed Autonomy").
Alvaro Lojacono (born 7 May 1955) is an Italian former communist militant and terrorist.
Early life
Lojacono was born in Milan, Italy on 7 May 1955 to parents doctor Giuseppe Lojacono, a Communist Party member, and Ornella Baragiola, a Swiss citizen.
When he was three years old, Lojacono's family moved to Rome, where he entered the Swiss elementary school of the city. In 1960, his parents separated without a divorce. He followed, along with his sister Silvana, their mother first to Ticino, then to Savosa, and eventually to Rimini, where Ornella Baragiola worked as the manager of the Italian-Swiss cultural center. After being ejected from Florence's Castelnuovo scientific high school, Lojacono returned to his father in Rome and enrolled in an arts school, where he became engaged in left-wing activism.
Armed militancy
Lojacono soon gravitated towards the radical-left, autonomist organization Autonomia Operaia ("Workers' Autonomy") that, besides engaging in violent political activism, maintained a clandestine, armed wing, unofficially denoted as Autonomia Armata ("Armed Autonomy").
On 28 February 1975, the trial began in Rome of members of the extreme-left organization Potere Operaio, accused for the arson attack against the home of MSI undersecretary Mario Mattei and his family on Primavalle street, which resulted in the death of two of his children and the serious injury of two other persons.
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