Premier Giorgia Meloni on Saturday marked the 46th anniversary of the Red Brigades (BR) streetambush in Rome's Via Fani in which Christian Democrat leader Aldo Moro was kidnapped and his five police escorts murdered.
The BR abducted Moro on March 16, 1978 and killed him 54 days later.
Meloni remembered "Oreste Leonardi, Domenico Ricci, GiulioRivera, Francesco Zizzi, Raffaele Iozzino, the five agents barbarously murdered by the Red Brigades on 16 March 1978 during the cowardly kidnapping of Aldo Moro, who was also found lifeless on 9 May of the same year." said "To them and to all the victims of that dramatic period in our history, goes our moving remembrance and deep gratitude.
"It is up to us," she concluded, "to remember and honor their sacrifice, so that those dark years never return" .
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