Spartaco Fontano
Spartaco Fontanot (born 17 January 1922 at Monfalcone, Italy, and died 21 February 1944, at Fort Mont-Valérien, France) was one of the members of the French resistance shot at Mont Valérien as a member of the Manouchian group. He was an Italian volunteer soldier in the French liberation army FTP-MOI. His name is one of the ten featured on the "''affiche rouge''", the propaganda poster displayed by the Germany, Germans during the trial of the 23 members of the Missak Manouchian, Manouchian group. His photograph is also on the poster, with the caption "Fontanot, Italian communist, 12 attacks". Early years Spartaco Fontanot was born on 17 January in Monfalcone, in the province of Gorizia in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy. He arrived in France at the age of two, his antifascist parents having been obliged to leave Italy when Benito Mussolini came to power. After elementary school, he took classes at the technical college of Puteaux, which he left with a "certificate of professional a ...
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