Il Sole 24 Ore3 hours agoCrime1 min readItaly

Piazza della Loggia massacre, no arrest for Marco Toffaloni

The Court of Appeal of Brescia rejected the arrest request for the accused, resident in Switzerland

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The Court of Appeal of Brescia denied the arrest of Marco Toffaloni, convicted at first instance for the Piazza della Loggia massacre in 1974.
The judges did not recognize a concrete risk of escape for the man, who resides in Switzerland and has acquired its citizenship.

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Marco Toffaloni was convicted at first instance in 2025 for the Piazza della Loggia massacre of 28 May 1974. The attack caused eight deaths and over one hundred injuries.

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Marco Toffaloni will not go to prison. The man was sentenced in 2025 at first instance to thirty years' imprisonment as one of the perpetrators of the neo-fascist massacre in Piazza della Loggia, which occurred on 28 May 1974. The Brescia Court of Appeal rejected the Prosecutor General's request to arrest him as there was insufficient evidence to demonstrate a concrete and current danger of the man escaping.

Toffaloni lives in Switzerland, where he married a Swiss woman and took Swiss citizenship. At the time of the attack, which caused eight deaths and over one hundred injuries, the man was only 16 years old. Toffaloni appealed the conviction to the Supreme Court.

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Hearing at the Court of Cassation for the appeal presented by Toffaloni.
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