Andrea Ghira
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Andrea Ghira (September 21, 1953 - September 2, 1994) was an Italian murderer and rapist.
Biography edit
Birth edit
Andrea Ghira was born in Rome on September 21, 1953 to a well-known and esteemed building contractor from Rome, Aldo Ghira, and Maria Cecilia Angelini Rota.
Early life edit
Since the years of the Giulio Cesare state high school, Ghira had been linked to circles of the extreme right. At the Giulio Cesare high school, Ghira had founded a group that theorized crime as a means of social affirmation. For Ghira the first problems with justice came at the age of 16, in 1970, following his participation in extreme right-wing demonstrations and episodes of political hooliganism. Infatuated by the myth of the Marseille gang, he called himself under the pseudonym of Jacques, name of the criminal Jacques Berenguer he admired.
Ghira received a first complaint for seditious demonstration, then he was denounced for armed threat and aggravated injuries in 1972. In 1973, he was arrested for aggravated robbery and trespassing, committed together with Angelo Izzo and sentenced to five years.
Massacre of the Circeo edit
On the 29th September 1975, Izzo, Guido and Ghira met at 4:00 p.m. with Donatella Colasanti and Rosaria Lopez, two girls who had met a few days earlier through a mutual friend. The two were invited to Circeo, in the villa of Ghira, in the locality of "Punta Rossa": once they reached their destination they were raped, drugged, tortured and massacred for a total of thirty-five hours.
Lopez was eventually taken to the bathroom on the first floor of the villa, where she was beaten and drowned in the bathtub, while Colasanti was nearly strangled with a belt and savagely beaten. The two girls were then hidden in the trunk of the car of Guido's father and then went to have dinner. The lamentations of Colasanti, a survivor of the violence, attracted the attention of a night watchman who gave the alarm: Izzo and Guido were arrested within a few hours while Ghira went into hiding. On the 29th July 1976, all three were sentenced to life imprisonment in the first degree. The sentence was also confirmed in the subsequent degrees of trial for Izzo and Ghira.
After, he was released from prison.
Rapture of Ezio Mattacchioni edit
Between the 15th and the 24th December 1975, Ghira would also have participated in the kidnapping of Ezio Matacchioni, in the role of jailer in a villa in Tor San Lorenzo.
Career in the military edit
On the 26th June 1976, Ghira initially spent 18 years in the Spanish foreign legion the Legión Española under the false name of Massimo Testa de Andrés, declaring himself born in Rome in 1955. He reached the rank of corporal by paying service in the Tercio "Duque de Alba" II of the Legión in Ceuta, precisely in the 3rd Company of the IV Bandera and later in the BOEL, the special forces department, before being expelled in 1993 due to lack of psychophysical conditions.
Life in Northafrica edit
Before arriving in Terni, he had spent six months in an Israeli kibbutz, then sheltering in Melilla, a Spanish enclave in Morocco, where his girlfriend Maria Rodriguez Valverde, sister of Benigno, a former legionnaire like him, lived and ran a kiosk on the beach.
Death edit
On the 2nd September 1994 in Melilla, in his house number 35 in Costa della Vigna, Ghira would later die as a result of an overdose at the age of 40. As communicated later by the Spanish Ministry of Defense, he was found lifeless. only seven days later, on rthe 9th September 1994.
The funeral would take place two days later, on the 11th September.