Word: carabinieri
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Then she pulled a large (30-in.) black Samsonite-type suitcase equipped with casters out of the room and dragged it past the potted plants in the corridor to the elevator. "Let me help you," said a carabinieri guard who was posted in the corridor, and the two rolled the valise onto the elevator. Downstairs the woman wheeled the suitcase up to a new red Fiat 132 parked near the door of the building and loaded it into the trunk. She asked the guard on duty at the gate to mail a letter for her and then drove...
Meanwhile, Romans took up a new parlor game ("All right, you get in the suitcase, and let's see how far I can carry you"). But the carabinieri were not amused: four top officers were summarily bumped from their posts, and two guards were arrested for breach of orders...
...four men were herded into the dingy, second-floor courtroom of Milan's Palace of Justice-handcuffed in pairs and bound together by a dull iron chain. The lone woman defendant walked by herself under the guard of heavily armed carabinieri. Six jurors, headed by a middle-aged woman wearing a shiny new sash in the national colors of red, white and green, nervously took their oaths. Over the shouted objections of the defendants, the presiding magistrate appointed defense attorneys and the trial got under...
...Milan, however, the authorities were determined to go ahead with elaborate pretrial procedures. Two hundred members of the bar association volunteered as defense attorneys, and nearly 1,000 stalwart citizens stepped forward for jury duty. Some 1,500 carabinieri with attack dogs and armored cars surrounded the courthouse and guarded every participant. Everyone entering the courtroom, even magistrates, had to undergo five separate security checks. "It would have been a disaster if this trial too had been postponed," said Indro Montanelli, Italy's leading conservative newspaper editor, who was shot four times in the legs by Red Brigades gunmen...
Terrorist Reprisals. Outside the court, terrorist commandos disguised as carabinieri stormed two Milan factories and set them on fire, causing damage estimated at $55 million. Three Red Brigades women shot Rome University's dean of the business faculty...