Word: fulvio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Turin in 1976 on charges of subversion and other crimes, Genoa Chief Prosecutor Francesco Coco was gunned down. One of the defendants announced in court that the murder was committed by brigatisti, and the trial was postponed. Then, shortly before the court was to convene again a year later, Fulvio Croce, president of the Turin Bar Association and newly appointed chief defense counsel, was murdered. Once again, the trial was postponed. Finally, last March the proceedings resumed. Despite yet another murder, of a police inspector who had helped apprehend one of the defendants, Judge Guido Barbaro vowed that the trial...
...since the Turin trial began in May 1976. That first trial was postponed when a defendant announced that brigatisti were responsible for the assassination of Genoa's chief public prosecutor and two assistants just the day before. Last April, as the trial was to resume, brigatisti fatally shot Fulvio Croce, 76, president of the Turin Bar Association, whose appointment as Curcio's defense counsel made him a "collaborationist of the regime." Jurors suddenly found excuses not to serve, and dozens of lawyers refused to act as defense attorneys...