Santo Ironimo Caserio was an Italian anarchist and the assassin of Marie François Sadi Carnot

Marie François Sadi Carnot

Marie François Sadi Carnot was a French statesman and the fourth president of the Third French Republic. He served as the President of France from 1887 until his assassination in 1894.-Early life:...

, President of the French Third Republic

French Third Republic

The French Third Republic was the republican government of France from 1870, when the Second French Empire collapsed due to the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, to 1940, when France was overrun by Nazi Germany during World War II, resulting in the German and Italian occupations of France...

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Caserio was born in Motta Visconti

Motta Visconti

Motta Visconti is a comune in the Province of Milan in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 25 km southwest of Milan.Motta Visconti borders the following municipalities: Vigevano, Casorate Primo, Besate, Trovo, Bereguardo....

, Lombardy

Lombardy

Lombardy is one of the 20 regions of Italy. The capital is Milan. One-sixth of Italy's population lives in Lombardy and about one fifth of Italy's GDP is produced in this region, making it the most populous and richest region in the country and one of the richest in the whole of Europe...

. On 24 June 1894, he fatally stabbed President Carnot after a banquet, to avenge Auguste Vaillant

Auguste Vaillant

Auguste Vaillant was a French anarchist, most famous for his bomb attack on the French Chamber of Deputies on 9 December 1893. The government's reaction to this attack was the passing of the infamous repressive Lois scélérates.He threw the home-made device from the public gallery and was...

 and Émile Henry.

At his trial, Caserio described the assassination in detail:

The Board of Pardons decided against all appeals for clemency on 14 August. Caserio was executed by guillotine

Guillotine

The guillotine is a device used for carrying out :executions by decapitation. It consists of a tall upright frame from which an angled blade is suspended. This blade is raised with a rope and then allowed to drop, severing the head from the body...

 in Lyon

Lyon

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at precisely 5am, 16 August 1894. In front of the guillotine, he exclaimed "Coraggio cugini—evviva l' anarchia!" ("Courage, cousins—long live anarchy!")