1978. The murder of Aldo Moro

35 years ago, on May 9, 1978, the Italian politician Aldo Moro, one of the leaders of the Christian Democratic Party, former Prime Minister of Italy, was killed.

Moro was abducted by terrorists from the Red Brigades and was captured for 55 days. The criminals demanded the release of their comrades and radical political reforms from prisons, but the Christian democrats who headed the government abandoned negotiations.

On May 9, the body of the former prime minister was detected by bullets was found in the trunk of the Renault car abandoned in the center of Rome. The car was parked on Kaitani Street between the headquarters of the two largest political parties, Christian-democratic and socialist.

Before his death, Moro wrote: "I will die if my party decided so." And he forbade that behind his coffin, anyone except the family was in place: not a single representative of the CDP or the government of the republic.