Murder of Giacomo Matteotti (1924)
마테오티 살해 (1924)
The abduction and killing of Giacomo Matteotti, secretary of the Unitary Socialist Party and opposition leader, by a fascist squad led by Amerigo Dumini in Rome on 10 June 1924, eleven days after he denounced electoral fraud and fascist violence in parliament.
In depth
On 30 May Matteotti told parliament that the 1924 election had been carried out through violence and fraud. His disappearance threw the regime into a serious crisis, and opposition deputies left parliament in protest in the Aventine Secession. His body was found on 16 August in the countryside of Riano north of Rome. With King Victor Emmanuel III declining to dismiss him, Mussolini told parliament on 3 January 1925 that he alone assumed “the political, moral and historical responsibility for all that has happened”, and the “fascistissime” laws that followed abolished the opposition and established a one-party dictatorship.