Word: curcio
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...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...
...Curcio married a fellow radical, Margherita Cagol, code-named "Comrade Mara." The two 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...
...first, kidnaping was the prime instrument of terror: plant managers, executives and judges were abducted, subjected to humiliating "people's trials," and then released. In 1974 came the first murders; one of the victims was the chief inspector of the antiterrorist squad in Turin. Curcio was arrested in September of that year, tried and imprisoned, then sprung in a daring 1975 commando raid led by his wife. A few months later, Comrade Mara was killed in a police Shootout. In 1976 Curcio was recaptured in a Milan apartment...
...postponed when a defendant announced that brigatisti were responsible for the assassination of Genoa's chief public prosecutor and two assistants just the day before. Last April, as the trial was to resume, brigatisti fatally shot Fulvio Croce, 76, president of the Turin Bar Association, whose appointment as Curcio's defense counsel made him a "collaborationist of the regime." Jurors suddenly found excuses not to serve, and dozens of lawyers refused to act as defense attorneys...
...Including Curcio, 15 are in custody; the others are being tried in absentia...