Adriana Faranda (born 7 August 1950) is an Italian former terrorist, who was a member of the

Red Brigades The Red Brigades ( it, Brigate Rosse , often abbreviated BR) was a far-left Marxist–Leninist armed organization operating as a terrorist and guerrilla group based in Italy responsible for numerous violent incidents, including the abduction ...

during the

kidnapping of Aldo Moro The kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro ( it, Rapimento di Aldo Moro), also referred to in Italy as Moro Case ( it, Caso Moro), was a seminal event in Italian political history. On the morning of 16 March 1978, the day on which the new cabine ...

Biography

Faranda was born at

Tortorici Tortorici ( Sicilian: ''Turturici'') is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about east of Palermo and about west of Messina. Located in the Nebrodi regional park, Tortorici bor ...

, in eastern

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. Initially a member of

Potere Operaio Potere Operaio ("Workers' Power") was a radical left-wing Italian political group, active between 1967 and 1973. (It shouldn't be confused with "Potere Operaio Pisano" which was one of the components of a competing revolutionary group, Lotta Conti ...

, in 1973, together with other future members of the Red Brigades (or BR) such as Bruno Seghetti and

Valerio Morucci Valerio Morucci (born 22 July 1949) is an Italian terrorist, who was a member of the Red Brigades and who took part in the kidnapping and assassination of Aldo Moro in 1978. Biography Morucci was born in Rome. He took part in the libertarian ...

, she founded the extremist group LAP (''Lotta Armata Potere Proletario'', meaning "Armed Struggle - Proletarian Power"). Later she was part of the

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"column" of the BR, and became a member of national council of the Red Brigades. In 1978 she took part in the kidnapping of former prime minister

Aldo Moro Aldo Romeo Luigi Moro (; 23 September 1916 – 9 May 1978) was an Italian statesman and a prominent member of the Christian Democracy (DC). He served as prime minister of Italy from December 1963 to June 1968 and then from November 1974 to July 1 ...

. According to her declarations during the ensuing trial, she was, along with Morucci, against the execution of the politician; when the latter was killed, Faranda abandoned the BR, after which she entered other formations connected to far-left leader Franco Piperno. Faranda had been identified as the woman who had bought the fake

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uniforms used by the ambushers of Moro's escort, and was arrested in Rome in May 1979, together with Morucci, in the house of KGB agent Giuliana Conforto. Due to her dissociation from the BR (she admitted her crimes but did not denounce other members), she was released in 1994, before her sentence had expired. Faranda wrote an autobiography in which she described the years she spent in jail. Italian actress Francesca Prandi portrayed Faranda in the 1991

John Frankenheimer John Michael Frankenheimer (February 19, 1930 – July 6, 2002) was an American film and television director known for social dramas and action/suspense films. Among his credits were ''Birdman of Alcatraz'' (1962), '' The Manchurian Candidate'' ( ...

film, '' Year of the Gun''.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Faranda, Adriana 1950 births Living people People from the Province of Messina Italian communists Red Brigades Potere Operaio People convicted of murder by Italy