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Moro's Death
The kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, also referred to in Italy as the Moro case (), was a seminal event in Italian political history. On the morning of 16 March 1978, the day on which a new cabinet led by Giulio Andreotti was to have undergone a confidence vote in the Italian Parliament, the car of Aldo Moro, former prime minister and then president of the Christian Democracy (Italy), Christian Democracy party (Italian: ''Democrazia Cristiana'', or DC, Italy's relative majority party at the time), was assaulted by a group of far-left terrorists known as the Red Brigades (Italian: ''Brigate Rosse'', or BR) in via Fani in Rome. Firing automatic weapons, the terrorists killed Moro's bodyguards — two ''Carabinieri'' in Moro's car and three policemen in the following car — and kidnapped him. The events remain a national trauma. Ezio Mauro of ''La Repubblica'' described the events as Italy's 9/11. While Italy was not the sole European country to experience extremist terrorism, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Years Of Lead (Italy)
The Years of Lead () were a period of political violence and social upheaval in Italy that lasted from the late 1960s until the late 1980s, marked by a wave of both far-left and far-right incidents of political terrorism and violent clashes. The Years of Lead are sometimes considered to have begun with the 1968 movement in Italy and the Hot Autumn strike action , strikes starting in 1969; the death of the policeman Antonio Annarumma in November 1969; the Piazza Fontana bombing in December of that year, which killed 17 and was perpetrated by right-wing terrorists in Milan; and the death shortly after of anarchist worker Giuseppe Pinelli while in police custody under suspicion of being responsible for the attack, which he was ultimately deemed as not having committed. A far-left group, the Red Brigades, eventually became notorious as a terrorist organization during the period; in 1978, they Kidnapping of Aldo Moro, kidnapped and assassinated former Italian prime minister Aldo Mor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
