1978. The murder of Aldo Moro

Forty years ago, on May 9, 1978, a prominent Italian politician Aldo Moro was killed, one of the leaders of the Christian Democratic Party and the head of the Italian government in 1963-1968 and in 1974-1976. He was abducted in Rome on March 16 by the terrorists of the Red Brigades, who demanded to release his arrested comrades for his liberation. During the abduction of Moro, his driver and four bodyguards were killed. The government abandoned the transaction with terrorists.

Moro's body sprouted by bullets was found in the trunk of a car parked on one of the Roman streets. The direct participants in the murder of Mario Moretti and Prospero Gallinari in 1982 were sentenced to life imprisonment, but in 1998 they were freedally released.