Fact check
Is it true: Aldo Moro kidnapping by Red Brigades (Mar 16 - May 9 1978)?
Partly — it's more complicated than the claim suggests.
The Red Brigades' operational authorship of Moro's kidnapping and murder is established: Mario Moretti (life sentence, 1983), Prospero Gallinari, and Anna Laura Braghetti were convicted. A 2014 special parliamentary commission identified anomalies in the original investigation. The wider allegations — that Gladio, the P2 lodge, or Italian intelligence facilitated or directed the operation — rest on circumstantial gaps and have not produced identified actors beyond the Brigades. The case remains the most studied unresolved episode in post-war Italian political history.
The claim
Christian Democrat President Aldo Moro was abducted on Via Fani, Rome, on 16 March 1978 — the morning of the swearing-in of his 'compromesso storico' coalition with the PCI. A five-member Brigate Ross
Key evidence
Via Fani ambush: precision that suggested professional military training
Mario Moretti convicted of murder — life sentence 1983
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