With these executions, it was believed that this strategy of terror targeting innocents, the civilian population, could isolate the fighters of the Resistance. However, the massacre in piazzale Loreto had the opposite effect.
The execution order for Saevecke, sentenced to life imprisonment for that heinous crime by the military court of Turin on June 9, 1999, is carried out by the Muti firing squad, which begins at 5:45 in the morning on August 10, 1944, and concludes at 6:10. At 5:45, there is already a German officer in piazzale Loreto, escorted by four soldiers. The officer orders the hostages to be placed against a fence, and, with the Muti soldiers arranged in a semicircle, he immediately commands fire.