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Battle of Valle Giulia

1968 clash during Italy's Years of Lead

Summary

1968 clash during Italy's Years of Lead

Field	Value
conflict	Battle of Valle Giulia
partof	the 1968 movement in Italy and Years of Lead
place	University "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy
date	1 March 1968
result
combatant1	Neo-Nazi celtic cross flag.svg Far-right militants
combatant3	[[File:Coat of arms of the Carabinieri.svg	16px	border]]/[[File:Flag of the Italian police force.svg	16px	border]] Italian police forces
combatant2	Socialist red flag.svg Far-left militants
commander1	Neo-Nazi celtic cross flag.svg Stefano Delle Chiaie
commander2	Unknown
commander3	Unknown
strength1	Around 4,000 students
strength2	1,000 policemen
casualties2	148 wounded
casualties1	272 arrested
478 wounded

Victory of the Police
- The militants fail to capture the University 478 wounded

The Battle of Valle Giulia (battaglia di Valle Giulia) is the conventional name for a clash between Italian militants (left-wing as well as right-wing) and the Italian police in Valle Giulia, Rome, on 1 March 1968. It is still frequently remembered as one of the first violent clashes in Italy's student unrest during the protests of 1968 or "Sessantotto".

Overview

On Friday 1 March, about 4,000 people gathered in the Piazza di Spagna, who began marching through the Sapienza University of Rome campus; some had the intention of occupying the school. When they arrived, the students found themselves in front of an imposing cordon of police, and during the coping that followed, a small group of policemen broke away to deal with violence of an isolated student; the protesters responded with throwing stones and blunt objects. The leaders of the attacks against police were neo-fascist members of the National Vanguard Youth. Left-wing and right-wing students occupied different buildings. In the brawl, 148 injuries were recorded to police, 478 injuries to students, 4 were detained, and 228 were arrested. Eight police cars were destroyed, and five guns were stolen from officers.

References

vedi p. 397 Nanni Balestrini, Primo Moroni,''L'orda d'oro: 1968-1977'', Feltrinelli, 1997.
Ugo Gaudenzi Asinelli, testimonianza in Nicola Rao, ''La fiamma e la celtica'', Sperling & Kupfer Editori, 2006, pp. 125-126 - {{ISBN. 978-88-200-4193-9
Nicola Rao, ''La fiamma e la celtica'', op. cit., pp. 126: "Ma la cosa più interessante è che a capeggiare l'attacco alla polizia sono i fascisti, a cominciare da quelli di Avanguardia Nazionale, guidati da Delle Chiaie"
Piero Ignazi, ''Il polo escluso. Profilo del Movimento Sociale Italiano'', Bologna, il Mulino, 1989, p. 132
[[Mario Caprara]] e [[Gianluca Semprini]], ''Neri, la storia mai raccontata della destra radicale, eversiva e terrorista'', Edizioni tascabili Newton, Roma 2011, pag 223: "Dopo la battaglia di Valle Giulia venne occupata l'università: la facoltà di Giurisprudenza passò in mano al gruppo guidato da Stefano Delle Chiaie, quella di Lettere fu invece "presa" dal Movimento Studentesco. Su Giurisprudenza svettava bandiera nera, su Lettere il drappo rosso"
Cfr. anche Marco Iacona, ''1968. Le origini della contestazione globale'', Solfanelli, 2008, pp. 86-87

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