Today is Friday, June 19, 2020.

On this day in 1903, one of the most infamous Italians in history was arrested for neither the first nor the last time.

Benito Mussolini lived in Switzerland from 1992

from 1992 through 1904 and sources from that period don't provide a lot of details as to his actual crimes

But we do get a clear picture of what the future dictator was like as a 19 year old.

Welcome to today in True Crime, a parcast original. Today we're covering the arrest of political

agitator and future dictator Benito Mussolini in Byrne, Switzerland. Now let's go back to June 19th, 1903.

Mussolini squinted as the sunlight pierced his eyelids. He began to sit up, but his back was sore and there was a crick in his neck.

Sleeping on a park bench will do that to you.

Once he did manage to pry himself up off of the stone,

he looked around at the park.

It was a beautiful summer day.

The wealthy citizens of Byrne were out in force,

enjoying games of cricket or picnicking on the grass.

Capitalist pigs, while they were at their leisure,

thousands around them toiled away in the factories,

no days off, no medical attention, meager pay.

Well, not for too much longer, if he had anything to say about it.

Soon he would lead the Italian immigrant workers of Switzerland

in a rebellion against their wealthy masters.

And then as their leader he would usher them into revolution.

Eventually he would head home and do something similar in Italy.

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