Alessio Casimirri (born 2 August 1951) is an Italian terrorist, former 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 ...

(BR), currently

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. Casimirri was born in

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. His mother was a

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citizen, and his father had worked for the Vatican newspaper ''

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'' and as the public relations man for three

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. After a militancy in

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 ...

and other left organizations in Rome, he entered the

. He was condemned ''in absentia'' to life imprisonment for the assassination of Aldo Moro's escort in 1978. In 1980 he abandoned the BR and subsequently fled abroad, reaching

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after a period in

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and

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. In the Central American country he participated in the

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guerrilla against the

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. Together with other Italian expatriates, he opened a restaurant in

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, called ''Magica Roma'' and more recently another seafood restaurant called ''La cueva del Buzo'' ("Diver's lair") in Managua.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Casimirri, Alessio 1951 births Living people Criminals from Rome Red Brigades Italian emigrants to Nicaragua Potere Operaio Fugitives wanted on terrorism charges Italian exiles Italian communists Politicians from Rome