Editing Junio Valerio Borghese (section)

===Attempted coup===
Following a last minute aborted ''[[coup d'état]]'' plot which fizzled out on the night of 8 December 1970 (the [[Feast of the Immaculate Conception]]), referred to as the [[Golpe Borghese]], he was forced to cross the border to avoid arrest and interrogation. In 1984, ten years after Borghese's death, the [[Court of Cassation (Italy)|Supreme Court of Cassation]] ruled that no ''coup d'état'' attempt had happened, in the sense that it was just a "meeting of four or five sixty-year-olds".<ref name=storia>{{in lang|it}} [http://www.lastoriasiamonoi.rai.it/puntate/il-golpe-borghese/8/default.aspx Il golpe Borghese. Storia di un'inchiesta] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160821085054/http://www.lastoriasiamonoi.rai.it/puntate/il-golpe-borghese/8/default.aspx |date=21 August 2016 }}, La storia siamo noi, Rai Educational (accessed 24 February 2011)</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-08-21 |title=Il golpe Borghese - Storia di un'inchiesta - La Storia siamo noi |url=http://www.lastoriasiamonoi.rai.it/puntate/il-golpe-borghese/8/default.aspx |access-date=2024-12-26 |archive-date=2016-08-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160821085054/http://www.lastoriasiamonoi.rai.it/puntate/il-golpe-borghese/8/default.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2005-12-05 |title=E la Cia disse: sì al golpe Borghese ma soltanto con Andreotti premier - la Repubblica.it |url=https://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2005/12/05/la-cia-disse-si-al-golpe.html |access-date=2024-12-26 |website=Archivio - la Repubblica.it |language=it}}</ref>

Nevertheless, the attempt is well known in Italy and film director [[Mario Monicelli]] made a biting satire of it called ''[[Vogliamo i colonnelli]]'' (1972) (''We want the Colonels'', as the [[Regime of the Colonels|Fascist Greek colonels]] were pulling the strings behind the scenes). The main character (played by [[Ugo Tognazzi]]) is a bombastic neo-fascist politician called Tritoni ([[Triton (mythology)|Triton]]), a clear allusion to Borghese, who was sometimes called the ''frog prince'' in Italy, after his time in the Frogmen assault Unit ''Dècima MAS''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Day |first=The Editor: Italy On This |title=The Borghese Coup |url=https://www.italyonthisday.com/2022/12/the-borghese-coup.html |access-date=2024-11-15}}</ref>