Benito Corghi (26 May 1938 – 5 August 1976) was an Italian long-distance truckdriver, who was a victim of Border Troops of the German Democratic Republic on a border crossing point.

Then he was going back as a pedestrian to pick up papers he forgot on the East German side.

When a guard shouted at him and ordered him to raise his hands, he did not understand, turned around and attempted to walk back, whereupon he was shot.

[2] On the next day, the authorities of the GDR formally apologized for the "tragic accident".

It was the only time in GDR history that such a formal apology was issued for a deadly occurrence along the inner-German border.