Aldo Semerari [SEP] place of death
Aldo Semerari
Aldo Semerari (; Martina Franca, 1921 − Ottaviano, 1 April 1981) was an Italian criminologist, psychiatrist and political diplomat of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.
Background.
A subscriber to the extreme far right politics in Italy, Semerari also had close ties to the Banda della Magliana, whose meetings were usually organized by him in his villa at Rieti in the summer of 1978, through his group Costruiamo l'azione (Let's build the action). He was also a member of Propaganda Due (
to employ the Banda della Magliana to carry out terrorist acts in Rome to help bring about a coup d'etat. The Banda della Magliana strongly refused taking part in terrorist activities, but a deal was worked out nonetheless: in exchange of financing his political activities, Aldo Semerari proposed psychiatric expertise to arrested gang members in order to help them be released. It was the first in a series of such cooperations between psychiatrists which allowed several gang members to effectively avoid any jailtime by being declared "completely unsound of mind".
Death