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the policemen who aimed and instead ended up
to ascertain their political arresting Sacco and Vanzetti,
ideas gave false and evasive whom he didn’t even know.
answers, lying about their Lies as evidence of guilt.
anarchist belonging and The reticence and evasive
denied knowing Buda. responses the two had
But had they really been given at the time of arrest to
arrested because they were protect themselves and their
anarchists? The answer is comrades convinced the
no, and it is doubly mocking. authorities that Sacco and
First of all, the exchange of Vanzetti were guilty of the
person. Indeed, on May 5, bloody robbery of Braintree
the evening of their arrest, on April 15. They were sent
the head of the Bridgewater to trial on the grounds that
Police Michael Stewart had their behavior constituted
set a trap for Mario Buda, evidence known in law as
considering him one of the “awareness of guilt”. This
five bandits who, on April evidence will permeate the
15, 1920, had made, in the entire trial and Nicola Sacco
nearby town of Braintree, a and Bartolomeo Vanzetti,
Armed robbery that ended with the only fault of being
with the killing of a valuables Italian and anarchists,
carrier and his bodyguard were sentenced to death on
and a loot of about April 9, 1927 and executed
sixteen thousand dollars. on August 23 of the same
Determined to arrest him, year for that robbery of a
he arrived late at the place hundred years ago... which
where the four anarchists they hadn’t committed. 50
had met and called Brockton years passed before - thanks
police asking to arrest two to the 1977 proclamation of
people on the bus from Massacchusetts Governor
Bridgewater. He thought of Michael Dukakis - the two
setting up Buda and Orciani were rehabilitated.

Napoli, comizio di protesta contro la condanna a morte di Sacco e
Vanzetti
Le bugie come prove di colpevolezza. La reticenza
e le risposte evasive che i due avevano dato al
momento dell’arresto per proteggere sé stessi e i
propri compagni convinsero, invece, il capo della
Polizia Michael Stewart e il procuratore distrettuale
Frederick Katzmann, che li interrogò il giorno
seguente, che Sacco e Vanzetti fossero colpevoli
della cruenta rapina di Braintree del 15 aprile.
Katzmann, in particolare, per mandarli a processo
sostenne che il loro comportamento costituiva una
prova conosciuta in diritto come “consapevolezza
di colpa”. Questa “prova” permeerà di sé l’intero
dibattimento e Nicola Sacco e Bartolomeo
Vanzetti, con la sola colpa di essere italiani ed
anarchici, furono condannati a morte il 9 aprile
1927 e giustiziati il 23 agosto dello stesso anno per
quella rapina di cento anni fa… che non avevano
commesso.

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