Death of Giorgiana Masi

On 17 February 1977, clashes erupted at Sapienza University, when the student movement (including members of Indiani Metropolitani and Autonomia Operaia) violently opposed a speech by CGIL (Italian General Confederation of Labour) secretary Luciano Lama.[3] Born on 6 August 1958, Giorgiana Masi lived with her parents and older sister on Via Trionfale, Roma, near the San Filippo Neri hospital.By 7:00 pm, mediation efforts by some members of Parliament appeared to have made a safe evacuation of the demonstrators possible, towards the rione of Trastevere through Garibaldi Bridge.At 7:55 pm, during the turmoil, bystanders saw Giorgiana Masi fall to the ground as if tripping over, and put in a car which took her to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead.[5] Though her assailant is unknown to this day, Marco Pannella and his Radical Party, on several occasions, made accusations against the Minister of the Interior, Francesco Cossiga, holding him to be morally responsible for Masi's death, stressing the presence of armed undercover agents among the protesters.