On april the 7th 1926, Violet Gibson aproached Mussolini after he had given a speech at the national congress of surgeons, She fired her gun, but Mussolini moved his head, and the bullet only hit him on the nose (as shown by the giant band-aid in the second picture). She was arrested and deported to Britain, where she was released without charge at request of Mussolini.
She spent the rest of her life in S. Andrews Psychiatric Hospital in Northampton.
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[Her wikipedia article](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_Gibson)
Referenced [here](https://spotify.link/uQr4FeTWNyb) by British music-hall duo Flanagan and Allen. Skip to 1:43.
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Fascinating how a few centimeters of space basically changed the course of the world
Do we know her motive?
Edit: I think I found something: “She told interrogators that she shot Mussolini “to glorify God” who had kindly sent an angel to keep her arm steady.”
Was she crazy or not? What do you guys think?
I hate the fact that the English language doesn’t differentiate between shooting that results in injuries and shooting that killed the victim.
In German it’s done with a simple prefix. Anschießen (injury) and erschießen (death).
One time traveler sent to shoot the dude and another sent to yank his head away.
Wait, El Douche had a heart ?
Sad he lived, but at we got the really funny mob hanging as a gas station later. Good times.
To think we were so stuck for a woman to name a bridge after that we settled on Rosie Hackett, who know one knew of at the time and who no one knows of now, bridge be damned.
Definitely about time we named something after Violet Gibson.
And then he was reincarnated as Berlusconi
The woman is a heroine!
Mussolini is such a clown, getting shot and hanged.
Hitler was a bad person, but at least he shot the most hated Nazi in the head!
So Mussolini requested her to be released? Or am I reading it wrong?
This Catholics, up to no good as usual