Among the town streets, some southern partisan groups led by the son of the mayor, Ercole Cavallaro, had begun to commit violences: the farmhouse of former fascist consul Nestore Prota had been assaulted and during that a young boy, Pasqualino Roda, was accidentally injured; farmer Antonio Ocello was accused of creating a group of fascist veterans in the North and he was forced to play the Russian roulette; priest don Giuseppe Rotella, who had taken a stand against violences, was beaten with maces.