The November 28, 1977 Benedict Petrone, Young Communist worker, was murdered by a fascist in Bari. A story of today: "Benny" in fact fighting against the expulsion of the working class from the "old town" The 'Bari, quiet city "was shattered on the evening of November 28, 1977 from the blade of the fascist left the headquarters of the Social Movement. That knife struck Benedict Petrone in the square of the Prefecture, a stone's throw from police headquarters and city hall, but not in a dark corner in the ideal center of the capital. Just at the point where "two cities", the professionals, traders and wealthy, including the MSI was lifeblood, was divided from that of students, workers, and residents of the oldest who was already at risk of speculation and emptying and voted on the left.
But Benedict was above all a boy of 18 years, Communist (he was writing to FGCI) who had to work while desiring to continue their studies.
"Blessed struggled against that hypothesis for the expulsion of the inhabitants of Old Bari - Cucciolla says Arturo, who together with Portia, sister of Benedict, is the soul of the Civic Committee in November '28 '- to the suburbs. What then is promptly taken place. Today, the Committee asks the citizens to get off the streets once again, in a unified way, to remember those days and we meet before the inscription of 28 to 10.30. 
The story of Benedict "Benny" has returned to light after three decades of substantial neglect: on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary in 2007, but its history went back to the city with major public events and celebrations, including thanks to the work of the committee. The figure of Benedict has been celebrated in films and documentaries and he has been named a university college. "Now that - says Pasquale Martino, co-author with Nicholas Master of the pamphlet" The two cities - the days of Benedict Petrone "which was released a year after the incident, telling ways and times which matured in the murder - the historical memory has been officially sanctioned, we have to understand is what happened next. Because the story is finished in a black abyss of a process that has not done justice, leaving a pack which is then stained with other crimes, probably also one of the DJ Martino Traversa. For both crimes because the legal truth has seen only one culprit.
For Benny, despite several witnesses who spoke of a pack, the only pay was the young Franco MSI Piccolo, who died later in prison. "Because the mists of lost truth court in Bari were many - Concluded Martino - from one of the first massacres of the state, that of July 28, 1943 when the army opened fire to kill on a demonstration calling for the release of political prisoners fascists. The first shots came from the windows of a Fascist headquarters via Nicolò arc and no one has investigated the way down. " The knife that struck Benedict was found by police in a room instead of the headquarters of the Italian Social Movement, which later became the headquarters of An and is now disputed between the PDL and Finian. The fact is that after the big event the next day and the closure of some episodes so severe dens blacks were no longer registered in Bari. The photos show a young age Massimo D'Alema at the funeral, the frames of a film is about an assault on the headquarters of Cisnal during a protest: union with the MSI was also invaded to close the section Passaquindici, home of the most violent groups of youth MSI.
the blaze was still a day and the vulgate of the following years, however, attempted to hand over the murder in a fight between extremists on both sides, in which hot-heads were facing the backdrop of a city after all peaceful and stranger violence . Was not so numerous have been published that dossier detailed list of the MSI the daily violence in the city, with victims or passers-by militants guilty of move in a particular way. Intran Franco, who was stabbed that night with Benny, he told during the thirty years. "That evening between 19 and 20 we moved from the Cathedral in a group to join other friends who came from Piazza Garibaldi. Curlews crossed the square until you get outside the theater Piccinni. Here, while we were returning to old Bari, we were attacked by forty people with their faces covered. In general flight Benedict, who had difficulty walking, was left behind and I was the only one to run to his aid. In defending we were caught in most hands, but the judiciary has made sure that the responsibility should fall only on small, since then insane asylums around the of Europe. " 
Today there is also a street in the center dedicated to Benedict, "a victim of fascist violence", strongly supported mainly by the family. The municipality, after a long negotiation, granted the naming of the street, just steps from the place of the murder.
"The way to celebrate November 28 - Nicholas Carella said of the team busy market, which is trying to test the activity of a community center in Bari - is that today there is a community of students, immigrants, temporary workers who want take back the city after years of neglect
. This movement is linked to movements of the seventies who opposed precisely these attempts at expulsion and marginalization of the working classes. That's why we are square again on Sunday. "
Nico Lorusso - Il Manifesto.
ph. Felisio Bruni (Noise Collective)
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