Word: turin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...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...
Nothing demonstrates the Red Brigades' methods more chillingly than the campaign of terror that members have conducted since the Turin trial began in May 1976. That first trial was 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...
...intimidation continues. Two weeks ago, another Turin police anti-terrorist specialist, Rosario Berardi, 52, was killed, shot seven times while waiting for a streetcar. A phone call from the Red Brigades promised that a woman juror would be next. Four defense lawyers abruptly resigned, and the trial was postponed again. Would it resume? Yes, declared Turin's mayor, Diego Novelli. "This is the only real answer that democracy can give...
...seven neo-Fascists killed in clashes during demonstrations, in single assassinations and in raids on party offices. The others: five innocent bystanders caught in the crossfire of fierce street fighting, four police officers, two magistrates who were presiding over the trials of accused urban guerrillas, the president of the Turin Bar Association, the deputy editor of the Turin daily La Stampa and a neo-Fascist politician...