Oreste Scalzone

Oreste Scalzone (born 26 January 1947) is an Italian far-left activist and one of the founders of the communist organization Potere Operaio.

A few days later, his vertebral column was seriously injured by a desk thrown from a window by neo-fascist students, mostly belonging to the Italian Social Movement, that were occupying the faculty of Law of the Sapienza University of Rome.

On 7 April 1979, he was arrested, along with Negri, Piperno, and others members of the autonomist movement, and accused of planning armed attacks and plotting to overthrow the government.

[3][6] In 1998, scalzone briefly and secretly came back to Italy passing through Corsica; a photographic service by the newsmagazine L'Espresso later revealed the episode.

[4] A 17 January 2007 ruling of the Court of Milan declared his crimes ("subversive association and member of an armed organization") prescribed.