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I didn’t realize Violet Gibson was Italian.
by filmfact 6y ago
I didn’t realize Violet Gibson was Italian.
- toyg 6y agoShe had been living in Italy for 4 years at that point.
- filmfact 6y agoHardly home grown, also I’m 99% sure she had been in Italy for less than 2 years before her attack (November 1924 - April 1926). By that measure 9-11 was home grown!
- toyg 6y agoAccording to this [0] she had moved to Rome in 1922. Unlike 9-11ers, she didn’t move to the country explicitly to perform the action; she likely grew to dislike Mussolini by spending time in the country. By that metric, I’d call it home-grown. [0] https://m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/features/profile-violet-gibson-the-irish-woman-who-shot-mussolini-34591366.html https://m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/features/profile-viole...
- filmfact 6y agohttps://dib.cambridge.org/viewReadPage.do?articleId=a10139 https://dib.cambridge.org/viewReadPage.do?articleId=a10139 Says 1924, and that she was already toying with the idea of martyrdom.
- toyg 6y agoAlso says: > In her room at the convent Gibson had amassed a collection of newspaper cuttings critical of Mussolini, and others outlining his movements. She also had a box of bullets. The origin of the revolver, her second, was never determined. The lead detective investigating the case believed Gibson was feigning madness and had not acted alone but possibly in collaboration with catholic modernist dissidents from the poor Trastevere neighbourhood. [...] > In June 1926, succumbing to immense pressure, Gibson made a confession. Her story was that she had committed the crime to impress an Italian duke named Giovanni Colonna, who she had fallen in love with years before in Switzerland. Vehemently opposed to fascism, she claimed Colonna had communicated his desire for Mussolini's death through a series of clues before gifting her with gun and bullets, that led her to the assassination site that fateful day. The duke was under surveillance for anti-fascist activities, and his movements at the time of the shooting could not be accounted for, lending plausibility to Gibson's account. Clearly this was not the work of a foreign faction, there was a clear element of Italian involvement.
- filmfact 6y agoWords placed into the mouth of a crazy woman (implicating an enemy of the people asking the questions) who was determined to kill -somebody- it’s mentioned elsewhere that she may have wanted to target the Pope. Not home grown.
- toyg 6y agoThe authorities did not even believe her, so I don't see why they would "plant" words in her mouth... Anyway, there is no point arguing about this.
- filmfact 6y agoBecause the ‘authorities’ are not a single person, factions within organizations often pull in different directions. Will you at least concede the point that she’d been in Italy for less than 2 years?
- filmfact 6y agoTo be clear: Violet Gibson was in no way Italian or connected in any meaningful way to Italy. One might also observe that the violent attack in a foreign country might almost be ‘Imperialist’. And if the attack was politically motivated (I personally think she was a few sandwiches short of a picnic), then she’s down for some political violence. In that case she’s a bit more facist than anti-facist.