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The kidnapping of Aldo Moro (Italian: Rapimento di Aldo Moro) was a seminal event in Italian political history.
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Kidnapping of Aldo Moro | |
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Location | Rome, Italy |
Date | April 16, 1978 (1978-04-16) – May 9, 1978 (1978-05-09) |
Attack type | |
Victim | Aldo Moro and five bodyguards |
Perpetrators | Red Brigades |
On the morning of 16 March 1978, the day on which the new Italian cabinet led by Giulio Andreotti was supposed to undergo a confidence vote in the Italian Parliament, the car which carried Aldo Moro, former Prime Minister and then President of the Christian Democracy political party (Democrazia Cristiana, or DC, which was Italy's relative majority party at the time), was assaulted by a group of members of the left-wing terrorist group Red Brigades (Brigate Rosse, or BR), in Via Fani in Rome. Firing automatic weapons, the terrorists shot and killed five of Moro's bodyguards, (two Carabinieri riding with Moro and three policemen in the car following them) and kidnapped Moro.
Fifty-five days later, on 9 May 1978, Moro's body was found in the trunk of a parked Renault 4 in Via Caetani in Rome. During his captivity Moro had been submitted to a political trial by the so-called "people's court" set up by the Red Brigades, who also offered the Italian government to release Moro in an exchange of prisoners.