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Also seized were Nadia Mantovani, 26, a friend of imprisoned Red Brigades Founder Renato Curcio, and Lauro Azzolini, 35, who had been sought in connection with the murder of the president of the Turin bar association last year. There were unconfirmed rumors that Mario Moretti, 36, the top suspect in the Moro assassination, was also in police custody. To speed proceedings, all nine will stand summary trial within two weeks on charges of possessing arms and explosives-a protective measure to ensure that the defendants are not released while authorities ponder more serious charges against them...
Magee summoned Villot and Assistant Papal Physician Renato Buzzonetti; the doctor determined that death had come from a stroke around 11 the previous night. Two hours after the body was found, the Vatican announced the death in a statement of scriptural simplicity. By noon the Pontiffs body was laid in the frescoed splendor of the Clementine Hall in the Apostolic Palace. Romans and tourists formed a mile-and-a-half queue that wound around St. Peter's Square to pay then- respects to the Pope. At the bier two nuns in blue, overcome, rushed through a gap in the wooden...
Less than a month after Renato Curcio, founder of Italy's notorious Red Brigades, and 45 other defendants were brought to trial in Turin in 1976 on charges of subversion and other crimes, Genoa Chief Prosecutor Francesco Coco was gunned down. One of the defendants announced in court that the murder was committed by brigatisti, and the trial was postponed. Then, shortly before the court was to convene again a year later, Fulvio Croce, president of the Turin Bar Association and newly appointed chief defense counsel, was murdered. Once again, the trial was postponed. Finally, last March the proceedings...
...Founder Renato Curcio, 36, and 150 other brigatisti are currently in jail or on trial for numerous crimes -39 murders, 30 kidnapings, ten jail breaks and a variety of subversive activities. But the organization continues to grow, and so does its appetite for mayhem. When Curcio, then a sociology student, formed the group in 1969, its activities were largely limited to rhetoric about the need for "an armed proletariat vanguard" to do battle against "the imperialist state of the multinationals." In the early 1970s, the group moved from vandalism and arson into a new field: kidnapings of plant managers...
That lesson may give the brigaiisii themselves pause. After hailing the execution of Moro as an act of "revolutionary justice." Renato Curcio, now on trial in Turin for armed insurrection, shouted to those assembled in the crowded courtroom last week: "Perhaps you have not understood what has happened in these days or what will happen in the coming months for Italy!" In fact, everyone understood only too well. In murdering a man dedicated to the principle that people who differ could find common cause. Moro's assassins had neither divided nor conquered but united the nation...