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Luigi LUCHENI
 
 

 

 

Luigi Lucheni

 

 

Luigi Lucheni

 

 

The murder weapon

 

 

Luigi Lucheni

 

 

Luigi Lucheni

 

 

Luigi Lucheni

 

 

Luigi Lucheni in his cell

 

 

Assassination
 

On 10 September 1898, in Geneva, Switzerland, Elisabeth of Bavaria, aged 60, was stabbed
in the heart with a sharpened file by a young mentally ill anarchist named Luigi Lucheni,
in an act of "propaganda of the deed".

When attacked, she had been walking along the promenade of Lake Geneva about to board
the steamship Genève for Montreux with her lady-of-courtesy, Countess Sztaray. She boarded
the ship, unaware of the severity of her condition. Bleeding to death from a puncture wound
to the heart, Elisabeth said, "What happened to me?" The strong pressure from her corset
had contained the bleeding until the garment was removed.

 

An artist's rendition of Lucheni's stabbing of Elisabeth of Bavaria.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
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