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...sensational escape of the man whom Romans called "the Hangman of the Ardeatine Caves" rocked Italy out of its holiday stupor like an earthquake. "An offense to the memory of all the victims of Nazi ferocity," declared the Christian Democrats' official daily, Il Popolo. Howled Milan's influential Corriere della Sera: "A humiliating scandal without redemption." A summit meeting between West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and Italy's Premier Giulio Andreotti, scheduled for later in the week, was promptly postponed, and Rome's Communist-elected mayor Giulio Carlo Argan led a march in memory...
...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...
Once an honor student in sociology at the University of Trento, Curcio refused his degree as a symbolic act of defiance in 1969. He moved to Milan and began organizing small revolutionary groups in the city's major factories, then moved on to kidnaping factory executives and shooting government officials. Police captured Curcio in late 1974, but his wife, Margherita Cagol, led a commando raid against the lightly guarded prison and rescued him. Four months later, police closed in on Curcio's wife at a farm where she and some confederates were holding a kidnaped wine merchant...
...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...