Reggio Emilia set to remember Cervi brothers

(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 26 - Reggio Emilia is gearing to remember the Cervi brothers, eight siblings who formed one of Italy's first Resistance bands and were executed by the Fascists on December 28, 1943.
    A slew of events are planned in the Emilian city Thursday 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.
    photo: the brothers' tractor in the Cervi museum (ANSA).