Moro case: in Italy, the auction of a Red Brigades leaflet is controversial


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A vintage copy of a document from the terror group claiming the kidnapping of Christian Democracy party leader Aldo Moro on March 16, 1978 will go on sale January 27. An initiative that divides the country and questions the collective memory.

“It’s an insane thing.” For historian Ilaria Moroni, amazement competed with indignation when she discovered the auction of a Red Brigades leaflet claiming responsibility for the kidnapping, on March 16, 1978, of the leader of the Christian Democracy party, Aldo Moro. Which will be assassinated fifty-five days later. The sale will take place on January 27, but it continues to spark controversy on social networks and in the Italian press. Because for part of public opinion, the memory of the violent action of the far-left terrorist organization which killed the five bodyguards of the politician at the time of the kidnapping and the tragic outcome of the sequestration continues to represent an open wound in the collective memory. Director of the Sergio-Flamigni archives center, Ilaria Moroni denounces “the morbid character of the initiative and the opportunism of the owner of the leaflet who thinks of making money by selling it. The place of this document is in the archives of the State”.

To date, 41 copies of communiqué number 1 are known – the first of a series of nine published during the captivity of the former pr…



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