What the records say
- When
- 16 Mar 1978
- Kind
- Murder
- Coordinates
- 41.89° N, 12.48° E
- Description
- Former Italian Premier Aldo Moro is kidnapped by the Red Brigades; 5 bodyguards are killed.
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro.
Kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro
Abduction and murder of Italian statesman
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 party, was assaulted by a group of far-le…
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