GIACOMO MATTEOTTI.
Giacomo Matteotti (Fratta Polesine –RO-, May 22, 1885 - Rome, June 10, 1924) was an Italian politician, journalist and anti-fascist, secretary of the Unitary Socialist Party, a formation born from a split of the Italian Socialist Party at the Livorno Congress.
He was kidnapped and murdered by a fascist squad led by Amerigo Dumini probably by the will of Benito Mussolini, due to his reports of electoral fraud and the climate of violence implemented by the nascent dictatorship in the elections of 6 April 1924 and his investigations into corruption of the government, in particular on the case of the bribes of the oil concession to Sinclair Oil.
Matteotti, on the day of his murder (10 June) should have presented a new speech to the Chamber of Deputies, after the one on fraud on 30 May, in which he would have revealed his discoveries concerning the financial scandal involving also Arnaldo Mussolini, younger brother of the Duce. Matteotti's body was found about two months later by Brigadier Ovidio Caratelli.
In any case, on January 3, 1925, in front of the Chamber of Deputies, Benito Mussolini publicly assumed "political, moral and historical responsibility" for the climate in which the assassination took place.
