Forty-five years since the kidnapping of Moro: leafy readings from the archive
On 16 March 1978 the president of the Christian Democrats was kidnapped by a command of the red brigades: fifty-five days of imprisonment and killing followed, with the body later found in the car in via Caetani
At nine in the morning forty-five years ago, the president of the Christian Democrats Aldo Moro was kidnapped by a command of the red brigades in via Fani, in the Trionfale district in Rome. Moro was on his way to Parliament, to vote for confidence in Giulio Andreotti's new government, where for the first time the deputies of Enrico Berlinguer's Italian Communist Party were also due to enter. Moro's car collided with a Fiat 128 that had cut him off: shots followed that killed officers Giulio Rivera and Raffaele Iozzino instantly. Shortly afterwards the deputy brigadier Francesco Zizzi, the pinned officer Domenico Ricci and marshal Oreste Leonardi, who were in the car, were to die. The DC president was held in imprisonment for fifty-five days, until he was killed with a discharge of bullets in the chest. The body will be found in the car in via Caetani, halfway between the headquarters of the DC and the PCI.
Some readings from the Foglio archive on the Moro kidnapping and murder
