Sarajevo – At the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Sarajevo a short commemoration was held yesterday for an Italian soldier, Cirillo Fancon, captured in northern Italy by the Austro-Hungarian troops during the First World War, in 1916, and taken to captivity in Bosnia central, where he died in 1917. His tomb was found by a history enthusiast, Prof. Dalibor Ballian, a professor at the Faculty of Forestry Sciences of the University of Sarajevo, and reported to the Italian Authorities, who ordered his remains to be returned to Italy, their country of origin, after the surrender of military honors in Sarajevo. The ceremony, celebrated by the Apostolic Nuncio, Mons. Luigi Pezzuto, was attended by the Italian Ambassador Nicola Minasi, the Minister for Defense Paolo Sfarra, a delegation of EUFOR and a representative of the Italian community. A curiosity is that the discovery of his tomb also led to the discovery of a second tombstone, another forgotten Italian in the neighborhood: Lorenzo Perrod. This is the third Consul General of Italy in Sarajevo, who in 1878, returning to the city, was mistaken for an Austrian spy and killed. (9Colonne)
COMMEMORATION OF THE SPOILS OF THE ALPINE TROOPER CIRILLO FANCON
