Alcamo Marina Massacre information

Strage di Alcamo Marina
Monument to the fallen Carabinieri officers Falcetta and Apuzzo
Location	Alcamo Marina, Sicily, Italy
Date	27 January 1976
Attack type	firearms
Deaths	two Carabinieri officers
Perpetrators	Unknown

The Massacre of Alcamo Marina refers to a double murder that occurred on 27 January 1976 in a Carabinieri station at Alcamo Marina, situated in the province of Trapani in the Italian island of Sicily. In the middle of the night, unknown gunmen broke into the station and shot dead two Carabinieri officers. Initially the Red Brigades were suspected, although they denied having anything to do with the attack, but eventually some youngsters from the area, including Giuseppe Gulotta, were arrested and convicted, and then absolved after more than 30 years. The Gulotta case represents one of the worst cases of miscarriage of justice and unjust detention in Italian history: Gulotta spent 22 years in jail and was then acquitted during a revisal of the trial, which took place after one of the Carabinieri officers involved in the investigation admitted that Gulotta's confession was obtained through torture and intimidation.

The massacre remains unsolved: the most accredited hypotheses involve the Mafia, terrorist organizations involved in Italy's strategy of tension, members of the Gladio organization, or a crime related to weapons trafficking.^[1]