Franco Anselmi
Italian terrorist (1956–1978)
Franco Anselmi (1 March 1956 – 6 March 1978) was an Italian neofascist terrorist who was active in the organization Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari (Armed Revolutionary Nuclei). He was killed during an attempt to rob a gun shop in Rome.
Early life
Franco Anselmi was born in Bologna on 1 March 1956, the youngest of three children. His family moved to Florence and then to Rome, where young Franco enrolled in the Kepler XI Liceo Scientifico.
At school, he was already expressing nationalist views and sympathy for far-right parties and organizations. In 1972, during his fourth year at the school, he was attacked by a group of left-wing students. The blows put Anselmi in a coma for three months. Upon his release from medical care, he had suffered permanent damage to his eyes that significantly lowered his visual ability. To compensate for the lost school time, he enrolled at the Monsignor Egisto Tozzi Institute, in the Monteverde area of Rome, where, in 1975, he made the acquaintance of young neo-fascist militants, such as Valerio Fioravanti, Massimo Carminati, and Alessandro Alibrandi. His visual disability led to him subsequently being "affectionately" called by friends and subsequent comrades-in-arms il cieco di Urbino ("the blind man of Urbino"), a reference to the University of Urbino in which he enrolled after finishing school.
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