The kidnapping of Mario Sossi marked the first time that the Red Brigades demanded a ransom: They insisted on the release of eight imprisoned members. In the 1980s, the group was broken up by Italian investigators, with the aid of several leaders under arrest who turned and assisted the authorities in capturing the other members. The Red Brigades killed seven more politicians in the next week, terrorizing the whole country of Italy. Il Terrorismo In Italia Negli Anni Settanta : Cronaca E Documentazione. Negri was charged with a number of offences including leadership of the Red Brigades, masterminding the kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro and plotting to overthrow the government. The Red Brigades and Left-wing Terrorism In Italy. Padova's Public Prosecutor, Pietro Calogero, accused those involved in the Autonomia movement of being the political wing of the Red Brigades.
Red Brigades, Italy's Communist Terrorist Group, Threatens Officials
The murder of a popular political figure also drew condemnation from other Italian left-wing militant formations and even the imprisoned ex-leaders of the Brigades. Thank you again for being a valued reader of The New American. Many those captured turned evidence and provided information to help capture other members in order to reduce their own prison sentences. Soviet and Czechoslovakia small arms and explosives would have came from the Middle East via along well established smuggling routes. The Red Brigade were ideologues, uncompromising in their world view of a pure class struggle, and they were committed to undermine any other political view in Italy. Bank robberies, kidnappings, drugs and arms trafficking were the major crimes.
If your post does not follow our policy, it will be deleted. Nuclei Armati Proletari : Carceri, Protesta, Lotta Armata. In 1984, the Red Brigades claimed responsibility for the murder of , United States chief of the Multinational Force and Observer Group. As with many Cold War European terrorist groups they were founded by radical students, in the case of the Red Brigades by Renato Curcio, Alberto Franceschini and Mara Cagol in 1970. He had been shot 11 times in the chest. For the Red Brigades, their fight with the Italian state was the continuation of the fight that the Italian Left Wing Resistance waged against Nazi Fascism during the Second World War. Gianfranco Pasquino Professor of political sciences Gianfranco Pasquino, professor of political sciences and a terrorism expert at Bologna University, says there is no evidence that the Informal Anarchists are connected to the Red Brigades.
Formed in 1970, the Red Brigades sought to create a state through and to extract Italy from the. The Red Brigades and Left-wing Terrorism In Italy. The Red Brigades did not carry out mass-casualty explosive attacks. Its primary targets were symbols of capitalism and the Italian state. Resources The Red Brigades got some revenue from kidnappings for ransom and from theft, which is also how they often acquired weapons. Franceschini's grandmother had been a leader of the peasant leagues, his father a worker and anti-fascist who had been deported to.
Statistics According to Clarence A. In the 1980s, the arrests rate increased in Italy, including that of Senzani in 1982 and of Balzerani in 1985. Please keep your comments on topic with the article. He was arrested in 1981 and freed in 1998. He is believed to have continued to guide the organization from prison.
As elements of the Italian left moved toward a strategy of political violence in 1967 and 1968, Uruguay's Tupamaros provided a model of urban guerilla warfare at the same time that Palestinian nationalist terrorism became more prominent in the wake of the Six-Day war of 1967. Terrorism In Italy : an Update Report, 1983-1985 : Report of the Subcommittee On Security and Terrorism for the Use of the Committee On the Judiciary, United States Senate. In October 23, 2003, Italian police arrested six members of the Red Brigades in early-dawn raids in Florence, , Rome and in connection with the murder of Massimo D'Antona. The Red Brigade and their leadership were violent anti-capitalists, and they saw multinational corporations as monsters preparing to devour the world Raufer. Statistics According to Clarence A. Italian police freed Dozier in a raid in January 1982.
The Aldo Moro Murder Case. Negri was charged with a number of offences including leadership of the Red Brigades, masterminding the kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro and plotting to overthrow the government. No link was ever established between Negri and the Red Brigades and almost all of the charges against him including 17 murders were dropped within months of his arrest due to lack of evidence. No profanity, racial slurs, direct threats, or threatening language. In the beginning the Red Brigades were mainly active in , and in large factories in , such as Sit-Siemens, Pirelli and Magneti Marelli and in Fiat.
March 2002: Marco Biagi, industrial adviser, shot dead Italy was also the scene of some violent clashes between police and anarchist groups during the 2002 Group of Eight summit in Genoa. It is possible other isolated cells remain and the Red Brigades were certainly a long time in dying even after Soviet support was cut off at the end of the Cold War, but any threat they still pose is more one of criminal activity than any meaningful political action. The foreman was then released unharmed. After mass arrests in the late 1980s, the terror group slowly faded into insignificance though the murder of government adviser Massimo D'Antona in 1999 and the Biagi killing brought back memories. This was one of several contributing factors in ending the covert relationship that the had with the culminating with a total break in 1979. They also got revenge on Coco, killing him in 1976.
The dispute between the groups was mostly rhetorical, however, and they did not attack each other. Members began being arrested at higher rates, and those arrested began increasingly to cooperate with authorities, leading to the capture of more members. Mario Moretti then shot him eleven times in the chest. In the attack, members of the Red Brigades killed five of Moro's bodyguards. In 1975 a police attempt to rescue a hostage lead to a violent gun battle which left two police officers and Mara Cagol dead. If our filtering system detects that you may have violated our policy, your comment will be placed in a queue for moderation. That same year, 49 members were prosecuted in Turin, prompting several retaliatory shootings against government officials.
