Moro kidnapping, that of 38 years ago to the day the statesman Dc and the martyrs of Via Fani – Intelligonews

Moro kidnapping, that day 38 years ago to the statesman Dc and the martyrs of Via Fani

Thursday, March 16, 1978 in Rome, was kidnapped the president of the Christian Democrat Aldo Moro by the Red Brigades were killed and the men of his escort.

That day was scheduled the debate in the Chamber of deputies and the vote of confidence for the fourth government led by Giulio Andreotti ; it was a moment of great importance: for the first time in republican history, the Italian Communist Party would have directly contributed to the parliamentary majority that would support the new government. Main architect of this complex and difficult political maneuver was precisely Aldo Moro.

At nine in the morning in via Mario Fani, Triumphal Moro neighborhood where he lived, the Member’s car and the escort were blocked all ‘intersection with via Stresa by a group of terrorists who immediately opened fire, killing a few seconds the five bodyguards and seizing the statesman.

The terrorists immediately departed on several cars and did lose track of them. In via Fani were the Fiat 130 labeled “Roma L59812″ Mr Moro with the corpses of the driver, the police pinned Domenico Ricci , 42, and the security officer, sergeant Oreste Leonardi , 52, and the Alfa Romeo Alfetta license plate “Roma S93393″ of the bodyguards carrying the corpse of Public security guard Giulio Rivera , 24, and the Public security corporal Francesco Zizzi, 30 years, badly injured but still alive; lying on his back on the street level, next to the car, also was the body of the guard of Public Safety Raffaele Iozzino , 25 years.

The Senate President Pietro Grasso, and Vice President of the Chamber Marina Sereni have laid two wreaths in Via Fani in homage to the five bodyguards of President Dc.

the ceremony was also attended by the commanding general of the Carabinieri, Tullio Del Sette, the chief of police, Alessandro Pansa, the Quaestor of Rome, Nicolo ‘D’Angelo, and the Prefect of the capital, Franco Gabrielli. Even the Democratic Party paid tribute to Moro and “of Fani” martyrs with a delegation of Gero Grassi, the Democratic Party deputy secretary, Lorenzo Guerini and leader in the House, Ettore Rosato.

Before his speech the House for the chairman of the Council ahead of the next EU Council Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has turned “a thought to the families of victims of the massacre of Fani and Aldo Moro.”

members of the government in the House to the House rose to their feet, along the hemicycle who addressed a clap of homage. “The feeling of attachment to their work of bodyguards and forward-looking vision of President Moro – added Renzi – can help us all to live up to our responsibilities.”

After nearly two months of imprisonment in a “people’s prison” Aldo Moro will be killed by the Red Brigades May 9, 1978 and his lifeless body did find in the trunk of a car.

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