1. Giuseppe "Pino" Pinelli was an Italian railroad worker and anarchist, who died while being detained by the Polizia di Stato in 1969.
19 Facts About Giuseppe Pinelli
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Giuseppe Pinelli was the secretary of the Italian branch of the Anarchist Black Cross.
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Giuseppe Pinelli's death, believed by many to have been caused by members of the police, inspired Nobel Prize laureate Dario Fo to write his famous play titled Accidental Death of an Anarchist.
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Giuseppe Pinelli was born in Milan to Alfredo Giuseppe Pinelli and Rosa Malacarne.
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Giuseppe Pinelli's family was working-class in one of the poorest areas of post-World War I Milan.
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In 1944, Giuseppe Pinelli was a member of the Italian resistance movement within the Franco Brigade, and worked with a group of anarchist partisans that introduced him to libertarian thought.
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In 1955, Giuseppe Pinelli married Licia Rognini, whom he had met at an evening class of Esperanto.
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Giuseppe Pinelli organized young anarchists in the Gioventu Libertaria in 1962.
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Giuseppe Pinelli founded the Ponte della Ghisolfa association in 1968.
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Giuseppe Pinelli was picked up, along with other anarchists, for questioning regarding the attack.
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Just before midnight on 15 December 1969, Giuseppe Pinelli was seen to fall to his death from a fourth-floor window of the Milan police station.
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Giuseppe Pinelli's death was widely believed to have been caused by members of the police.
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Three police officers interrogating Giuseppe Pinelli, including Commissioner Luigi Calabresi, were put under investigation in 1971 for his death; legal proceedings concluded it was due to accidental causes, citing active illness.
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Giuseppe Pinelli was 41, and was survived by his wife and two young daughters.
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Giuseppe Pinelli described Pinelli's suicide as "a hoax", as General Vito Miceli had reportedly confided to him.
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Giuseppe Pinelli's death is the inspiration for Dario Fo's play Accidental Death of an Anarchist, although in the original script his name was not mentioned explicitly.
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The political documentary film 12 dicembre directed by Giovanni Bonfanti about Giuseppe Pinelli's death was based on an idea by Pier Paolo Pasolini and included an interview to Giuseppe Pinelli's mother and wife.
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Giuseppe Pinelli's death inspired the 1972 monumental mixed-media work The Funeral of the Anarchist Pinelli by Italian artist Enrico Baj.
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In Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy, Giuseppe Pinelli was portrayed by Pierfrancesco Favino.