Reggio Emilia remembers Cervi brothers

(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 28 - Reggio Emilia on Thursday remembered the Cervi brothers, eight siblings who formed one of Italy's first Resistance bands and were executed by the Fascists on December 28, 1943.
    Eight red roses were placed on the site of the former firing range in the Emilian city to commemorate Gelindo, Antenore, Aldo, Ferdinando, Agostino, Ovidio and Ettore Cervi, shot by a Fascist firing squad along with an eighth partisan, Quarto Camurri.
    They were caught along with their father Alcide in a Fascist sweep on November 25.
    The eight partisans were executed in retaliation for the December 27 assassination of the town council secretary at Bagnolo in Piano, Davide Onfiani. (ANSA).