To compensate for the lost school time, he enrolled at the Monsignor Egisto Tozzi Institute, in the Monteverde area of Rome, where, in 1975, he made the acquaintance of young neo-fascist militants, such as Valerio Fioravanti, Massimo Carminati, and Alessandro Alibrandi.
The arsonists left a pamphlet on the pavement, signed "Tanas Brigade," that read "Class war - Death to the fascists - headquarters of the MSI - Mattei and Schiavoncino are hit by proletarian justice."
[3] In 1976, while attending a neofascist rally in Sezze during that year's general election campaign, Anselmi was involved in a fracas instigated by MSI deputy Sandro Saccucci that resulted in the death of Luigi Di Rosa, a young communist activist.
[8] On 30 December 1977, they firebombed the entrance of Il Messaggero in via dei Serviti, while, on 4 January 1978, they entered the editorial office of Corriere della Sera, issued threats to the newspaper's employees, and threw Molotov cocktails, one of which, thrown by Anselmi, mistakenly hit the building superintendent who suffered extensive burns.
[9] On 28 February 1978, on the occasion of the third anniversary of the death of Mantakas, Anselmi participated, together with the Fioravanti brothers and others, in the assassination of Lotta Continua militant Roberto Scialabba in Don Bosco square.
[11] On 5 May 1987, in the annual award ceremony for "courageous actions" of Italian citizens, the President of the Republic bestowed the Silver Medal for Civil Valor to Danilo Centofanti for showing, during the 1978 robbery, "contempt of danger" and "civic sense.