June 1924

Giacomo Matteotti was kidnapped and killed at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday June 10, 1924. All the men who committed the crime belonged to a Milanese group of fascist arditi (a military corps created during the First World War to conduct particularly dangerous missions behind enemy lines), and all were members of the fascist Ceka organization—a secret police force created by Mussolini to carry out actions of intimidation against anti-fascist leaders, modeled on the Russian Cheka.