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Paolo Lega

AKA: Marat
Known for: Assassin
Born: 9 December 1868
Died: 25 September 1896

Italian anarchist illegalist who attempted to assassinate Prime Minister Francesco Crispi in Rome in 1894, for which he sentenced 20 years in prison. Died in Cagliari at the agricultural penal colony of St. Bartholomew.

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