Villettes puts the ringleaders on trial: twenty-four…
April 1807 CE
The executions are carried out at the Floriana Parade Ground in the presence of the rest of the Froberg Regiment, which is now imprisoned.
The first fifteen mutineers are divided into three groups of five: each group is hanged by the following group.
The last group is not hanged, but instead executed by firing squad with the remaining prisoners.
Some do not die immediately and try to escape, and although most are recaptured and executed, two run away and die after jumping off the bastions.
Meanwhile, the mutineers' leader Caro Mitro together with his friend Nicola d'Anastasi had managed to escape, but they will be captured on April 25 or 26 by Maltese soldiers near Baħar iċ-Ċagħaq.
They will be hanged on the same day and buried in a trench beneath the Bastioni della Salnitriera.
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