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Word: frascella (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...police outside started up a bulldozer to cover the sounds of what was to come, the squad rushed quickly to the second-floor apartment of Emanuela Frascella, 21, a history student at the University of Venice and a Red Brigades terrorist. One commando opened the steel-reinforced door of the apartment with a skeleton key, and his colleagues burst inside. In the hallway they encountered Giovanni Ciucci, 32, a Red Brigades member, who had heard the key turn in the lock and was rushing, pistol in hand, to investigate. Before he had a chance to fire, one of the leatherheads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: Police! Marvelous! | 2/8/1982 | See Source »

...rest of the squad continued to the rear of the five-room apartment, where they found the three remaining terrorists: Frascella, Savasta's girlfriend Emilia Libera, 26, and Cesare di Lenardo, 22. The three put their hands up immediately. Not a shot had been fired. From the moment the leatherheads first entered the building, barely 90 seconds had elapsed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: Police! Marvelous! | 2/8/1982 | See Source »

Four of the five terrorists arrested were taken to an undisclosed location. Ciucci was rushed to a nearby hospital in serious condition after sustaining the karate blow in the hallway. All but Ciucci and Frascella, whose father is a respected Padua doctor, were well known to antiterrorist specialists. Indeed, Savasta and Libera were recently convicted in a Cagliari court and sentenced to prison in absentia for several bank robberies and their involvement in a 1980 Shootout with police. In the apartment, police found large numbers of Red Brigades documents and the two slogan-filled posters that Dozier was forced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: Police! Marvelous! | 2/8/1982 | See Source »

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