User:Lord Gøn/Lumino shooting
| Lumino shooting | |
|---|---|
| Location | Lumino, Switzerland |
| Date | February 6, 1922 ~ 1 p.m. |
Attack type | Mass murder |
| Weapons | Revolver 10.4mm army revolver |
| Deaths | 4 (including the perpetrator) |
| Injured | 3 |
| Perpetrator | Battista Pestalacci |
The Lumino shooting was an act of mass murder that occurred in the town of Lumino, Switzerland, on February 6, 1922, when Battista Pestalacci, a 28-year-old local resident, killed at least three people and wounded at least three others, before committing suicide.
Shooting
[edit]A few minutes before 1 p.m. Pestalacci entered the local station of the Bellinzona–Mesocco railway armed with two revolvers. He approached a group of workers, and with the words "You are the first" fired two shots at a man named Luigi Scolari, 22, hitting him in the arm and groin. He next killed two men, both named Carlo Pronzini, one of them the Gemeindepräsident of Lumino,[1] and killed them with shots to the head. Wounded was also another worher named Giulio Ghidossi, 40, and a woman named Assunta di Gottardi, 45. Afterward Pestalacci made his way towards the village demanding entrance to several houses and wounding a man and a 40/zear/old woman named Alsunta Degaspano in the process. He then entered the post office that was housed in the brasserie "Dell' Unione" and demanded that the telephine wires are cut. After reloading his weapons he made his way to Monticello where he entered an inn and demanded wine. When the inn/keeper Carlo Tanio denied him the wine Pestalacci gravelz wounded him with several shots in the abdomen and also shot his daughter Celestina Tamo, 31, in the head. Pestalacci lost one of his pistols after a scuffle with a Carlo Tamo's son. Pestalacci escaped ito the Tanio|s nearby vineyard where he eventually committed suicide suicide with a shot in the head. He had killed five people and wounded eight others.[2][3][4]
Victims
[edit]- Carlo Pronzini
- Carlo Pronzini
- Carlo Tamo
- Celestina Tamo
Aftermath
[edit]In the following days the inhabitants of Lumino refused to bury Pestalacci's body and threatend to exhume him and dispose of the corpse in the river Moesa, if it were buried. It was also found that Pestalacci may have been responsible for two other murders in the Bellinzona region.[5]
Perpetrator
[edit]Pestalacci was known as an irascible and dangerous person. During mobilization threatened several commanding officers, convicted by military court[3] Threatened that the local graveyard would not be able to handle the number of his victims, had with him a list of 30 people he wanted to kill, head of a gang stealing ammunition in Arbedo, attacks against trains, skilled worker at Werkstaette Bellinzona, accused of theft of 12,000 Franken, fired, reader of pulp novels.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Eidgenossenschaft - Der Amokläufer von Bellinzona Berner Landes-Zeitung (February 8, 1922)
- ^ Maniac terrorizes town, Rome Daily Sentinel (February 7, 1922)
- ^ a b Ein Amokläufer in Bellinzona, Berner Landes-Zeitung (February 7, 1922)
- ^ a b Das Verbrechen in Lumino, Berner Landes-Zeitung (February 11, 1922)
- ^ No one dares to bury body of man; villagers aroused, The Auburn Citizen (February 10, 1922)
External links
[edit]- Les drames de la folie, Le Confèdèrè (February 8, 1922)
- Un drame de la folie au Tessin, Journal de Genève (February 7, 1922)
- Confederation - Tessin, Journal de Genève (February 8, 1922)
- Un fou assassin, Gazette de Lausanne (February 7, 1922)
- Confederation - Le fou de Lumino, Gazette de Lausanne (February 8, 1922)
- Nouvelles des Cantons - Tessin, Gazette de Lausanne (February 10, 1922)
- Dalla capitale - Orribile fatto di sangue, Gazzetta Ticinese (February 7, 1922)
- La tragedia di Lumino, Gazzetta Ticinese (February 8, 1922)
- Dalla capitale - La Tragedia di Lumino, Gazzetta Ticinese (February 9, 1922)
- Il caso Pestalacci, Gazzetta Ticinese (February 16, 1922)
- L'orrenda strage di Lumino, Popolo e Libertà (February 7, 1922)
- La tragedia di Lumino, Popolo e Libertà (February 8, 1922)
- Bellinzona e contado - Echi della tragedia, Popolo e Libertà (February 10, 1922)
- Bellinzona e contado - Echi della tragedia, Popolo e Libertà (February 11, 1922)
- Bellinzona e contado - Nuovi Episodi, Popolo e Libertà (February 13, 1922)
- La tragedia di Lumino, Popolo e Libertà (February 15, 1922)
- Gran consiglio - Interpellanza sui fatti di Lumino, Popolo e Libertà (February 16, 1922)
- Nel cantone Ticino - Per gli orfani di una delle vittime del Pestalacci, Popolo e Libertà (March 3, 1922)
- Il processo per i furti alla polveriera, Popolo e Libertà (November 15, 1922)
- Il processo per i fatti di Lumino, Popolo e Libertà (November 16, 1922)
- Il processo per i fatti di Lumino, Popolo e Libertà (November 17, 1922)
- Dal cantone - Lumino, Libera Stampa (February 7, 1922)
- Dal cantone - Lumino, Libera Stampa (February 8, 1922)
- Con le molle - Gli amici, Libera Stampa (February 14, 1922)
- Sul fatti di Lumino, Libera Stampa (February 16, 1922)
- Magistrati liberali che dormono, Libera Stampa (September 25, 1922)