Word: carabinieri
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...police took official credit for the job, but it was not they who had killed famed Bandit Giuliano. The machine-gun fire which Italy's carabinieri last July pumped into the glamorous outlaw who had terrorized and fascinated Sicily for seven years (TIME, July 17) was aimed at a man they knew to be already dead. The police shots were a blind to cover the real executioner. Last week, on trial in Viterbo for an assortment of killings and other acts of banditry, Giuliano's former lieutenant and confidant, Gaspare Pisciotta, confessed that he had killed Giuliano...
...said. "If, we allow our organization to be destroyed, our friends will have no hope." Giuliano made a gesture. He wrote a letter to the trial judge in which he took personal blame for the murders. Pisciotta, far from satisfied, arranged a meeting in Rome with Carabinieri Colonel Ugo Luca, whose sole assignment for two years had been to kill or capture Giuliano. The two talked long and earnestly. Then the bandit lieutenant drove to Castelvetrano, where his chieftain was hiding...
...carload of carabinieri was waiting outside of the house where Giuliano was hiding. The bandit chief was in a room upstairs. "Your letter," Pisciotta told him after the two had exchanged greetings, "has brought no help to our friends. They will be sentenced to life imprisonment...
Against the day of revolt, Italy's Communists have piled up a vast store of arms, but it is disappearing fast. Backed by a law banning private possession of arms (maximum penalty: ten years' imprisonment), Italian police and carabinieri began ferreting out the Red arsenals in 1947. They relied on detective work and tipsters, hunted with police dogs trained to spot the scent of the grease that is used in preserving guns. They found what they were looking for in walled-up cellars, under haystacks and manure piles, in football stadiums, cemeteries and abandoned churches...
Caffé admits that he has sometimes been tempted to paint Italy's fancy carabinieri, whose uniforms feature red, white and black too. His newest project: a commission from the Italian butchers' association for a series of paintings of young priests looking at appetizing cuts of fresh red meat...