European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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The machine guns had no tripod though. Fiorello was very good in mechanical work.
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He had worked at Bagni’s in Via Toschi, manufacturing and repairing scales, he built the tripods himself.
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Once he was stopped by a Black Brigade near the cemetery of Via Cecati while he was taking one home.
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They asked him what that thing was. He replied that he was taking that tripod to the dairy in San Bartolomeo.
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Fortunately they let him go, since he had two guns on him.
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I told him what would have happened if he was searched. He replied: “I would have done like Tomix (a movie hero fast with his guns)”.
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That’s how we always joked around.
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The death of Fiorello
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The Black Brigade, together with Germans, was going through the Ghiardo.
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A twenty-year-old boy was walking on the road.
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He started running as soon as he saw the Black Brigade and the armoured vehicles.
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He jumped over a hedge and ran into a small road towards the barn we were lying in in ambush.
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As we saw the Black Brigade truck coming in the courtyard we were forced to shoot.
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If they came inside they would have killed us.
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Then we moved out of the house and towards the hills. There the battle took place.
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They lined up behind a hedge and started shooting. Fiorello was shot in the heart and died there.
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We had started shooting because one of our comrades had run away
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as the truck came in the courtyard. His name was Francia.
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Instead of coming inside the barn, he ran towards the fields and was shot dead as well.
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They had shot one of our men, and that’s why we had to shoot back.
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