Word: brigatisti
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Dates: during 1978-1978
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According to police, 148 brigatisti are already in jail, and warrants are out for an additional 25. Of the detainees, 39 have been convicted of or charged with murder, 13 with attempted homicide, 55 with kidnaping, 30 with robbery, a few with lesser offenses. Little is known about the Brigades, but some brigatisti, it is certain, have been schooled at the same Palestinian guerrilla camps that trained members of West Germany's murderous Baader-Meinhof gang...
Renato Curcio, 36, the handsome, bearded convict who is thought to have founded the organization, exemplifies the movement and its methods. Curcio, now on trial in Turin with 48 other brigatisti,* established a leftist splinter group at the University of Trento in 1967. Members immersed themselves in Marx, Mao and Che Guevara...
...moved to Milan, where they swiftly became zealots of armed struggle. The Red Brigades were set up in November 1970 as "an armed proletariat vanguard to be the revolutionary power of the exploited classes." The Communists, in the organization's view, had sold out; the aim of the brigatisti, much like that of 19th century anarchists, was to purify society by overthrowing all existing institutions. But the Red Brigades seem to have no coherent vision of what would replace them...