Je prie pour Carnot qui va être assassiné ce soir
Subtitle: Un attentat contre la République, 24 juin 1894
By: Karine Salomé
Series: Chroniques
Publisher: Vendémiaire
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9782363580238
Subjects: Assassination; Xenophobia; Anarchism; History
Description: On 25 June 1894, the president Sadi Carnot is assassinated at Lyon by the Italian anarchist Santo Caserio, after a term marked by agitation Boulanger and the Panama scandal. The president is stabbed with a dagger as he passes through the city in an open carriage: a procedure reminiscent of the regicide. But the gesture is part especially in the wave of anarchist bombings in recent years that shook France, the cry of "Vive la dynamite!" The denunciation of the "bourgeois" who "starve the people" is expressed in a particular virulence effect in these areas inflamed by the Russian example: the streets of Paris and the precincts of the House of Representatives have already witnessed this "propaganda by deed." In return, the most ferocious xenophobia is given free rein: thousands of workers and artisans Italian booed as accomplices of the murderer, are forced to leave the country. As the enigmatic Caserio, who refuses to reveal whether he acted alone or accomplices received a "conspiracy" at the European level, criminologists and experts of all kinds constantly question his motives.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-183).