Every March 16th Italy remembers the kidnapping of the president of the Christian Democracy Aldo Moro by a commando of the Red Brigades.
Forty-six years ago, while Moro was going to parliament in the morning - where Giulio Andreotti's government was to be presented - his car, on the way from the MP's house to the Chamber of Deputies, was blocked in via Mario Fani in Rome by an armed nucleus of the Red Brigades.
In a few minutes, shooting with automatic weapons, the members of the Red Brigades killed the two carabinieri on board Moro's car, Oreste Leonardi and Domenico Ricci, and the three policemen who were traveling in the escort car, Raffaele Iozzino, Giulio Rivera and Francesco Zizzi, then seized the 'honourable.
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Starting at 9.45 a delegation from the Democratic Party will go to via Fani to lay a wreath of flowers.
There will be: Cecilia D'Elia, Paolo Ciani, Andrea Casu, Roberto Morassut, Filippo Sensi and Francesco Verducci.
The Moro kidnapping is a tragedy still shrouded in shadow, despite the fact that 3 trials have been held, various parliamentary commissions of inquiry have dealt with the case and accusations of misdirection, conspiracies and suspicious deaths have alternated.
Last year, the statesman's first daughter, Maria Fida Moro, addressing the world of politics, complained in a letter to La Nazione that her father had not "yet been granted the status" of "victim of terrorism".
Maria Fida will not be there on the anniversary of her kidnapping, she died on February 7, at the age of 77 after having spent her life trying to bring out the whole truth about the death of her father.
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