GIACOMO MATTEOTTI PORTRAIT 2018

Giacomo MATTEOTTI (22 May 1885 - 10 June 1924) Italian politician, journalist and anti-fascist, secretary of the Unitary Socialist Party, kidnapped and murdered by a fascist team for his investigations into the corruption of the Mussolini government and for the denunciation of violent people in the Chamber of Deputies coercive methods used by fascism to obtain votes in the elections of 6 April 1924 that had brought him into office, to be considered for their diffusion and gravity of the real electoral fraud. Kidnapped on the same day when he should have spoken to the Chamber on the story of the bribes in the oil concession to Sinclair Oil, his body was found two months later hidden in the spot of Quartarella, in the municipality of Riano. Portrait, illustration of Dariush Radpour, digital colored pencil drawing, 2018.