1. Amerigo Dumini participated in the Sarzana incident on 21 July 1921, leading a column of 300 "squadristi" to Sarzana with demands for the liberation of Renato Ricci.
10 Facts About Amerigo Dumini
1. 2.
In 1924 Dumini entered the ranks of Ceka, the secret police which Mussolini based on the Soviet Cheka.
3.
Amerigo Dumini justified his entitlement with the words "I am here in order to wash Matteotti's blood off my hands".
4.
Amerigo Dumini left for Italian Libya, where his pension was further increased by 2,500 lire.
5.
Amerigo Dumini remained in the region for more than a decade and was captured by the British Army at Derna during the North African campaign of World War II.
6.
Amerigo Dumini went into business as a transporter and bought a villa in a residential area of Florence.
7.
Amerigo Dumini was given a life sentence, which was immediately commuted to 30 years due to the Togliatti amnesty.
8.
Amerigo Dumini was released under a further amnesty in 1953.
9.
In 1967, Amerigo Dumini accidentally electrocuted himself while changing a lightbulb in his home.
10.
Amerigo Dumini died of a heart attack in a hospital nearly three weeks later.