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Valerio Morucci (born 22 July 1949) is an Italian terrorist, who was a member of the
Valerio Morucci (born 22 July 1949) is an Italian 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 ...
and who took part in the kidnapping and assassination of Aldo Moro in 1978.
Biography
Morucci was born inRome
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. He took part in the libertarian movement of 1968, and later entered 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 ...
, a far-left organization. After the dissolution of Potere Operaio in 1973, he tried to form several political-military organizations including the Formazioni Comuniste Armate (FCA), which were absorbed by the Red Brigades (Italian: ''Brigate Rosse'', or BR) in 1976.
Morucci, considered an expert in weapons and military organizations, became the leader of BR's "column" in Rome. In March 1978, he took part in the ambush in via Fani in which the escort 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 ...
was massacred, and during which Moro was allegedly kidnapped. According to the official reconstruction of the events which followed, Morucci disturbed all the communications of the BR and was allegedly against the final decision (attributed to BR national leader Mario Moretti
Mario Moretti (born 16 January 1946) is an Italian terrorist and convicted murderer. A leading member of the Red Brigades in the late 1970s, he was one of the kidnappers of Aldo Moro, the president of Italy's largest political party ''Democrazi ...
) to kill Moro. He also entered in contact with Lanfranco Pace and Franco Piperno
Franco Piperno (born 5 January 1943) is a former communist militant from Italy. He is an associate professor of Condensed Matter Physics in the University of Calabria.
Biography
Piperno was born in Catanzaro.
He graduated in physics at the Univ ...
(in turn in contact with the Italian Socialist Party
The Italian Socialist Party (, PSI) was a socialist and later social-democratic political party in Italy, whose history stretched for longer than a century, making it one of the longest-living parties of the country.
Founded in Genoa in 1892, ...
, one of the few political forces favourable to negotiations to liberate Moro).
According to his declarations during the ensuing trials, Morucci escorted the red Renault 4
The Renault 4, also known as the 4L (pronounced "Quatrelle" in French), is a small economy car produced by the French automaker Renault between 1961 and 1994. Although the Renault 4 was marketed as a short station wagon, its minimal rear overhang ...
in which Moro's corpse was found on 9 May 1978 to its discovery location in via Caetani. He subsequently made the phone callThe phone call has been registered and can be found on YouTube announcing to the victim's relatives where Moro could be found. Morucci's voice has been identified as that which called Moro's family several times during the latter's time in captivity (aside from a call by Moretti on 30 April 1978).
Morucci was arrested in 1979. Due to his subsequent dissociation from BR, and the information given about the organization, he was paroled. His sentence expired in 1994. He wrote several books, including ''Ritratto di un terrorista da giovane'', in which he tells about his life before his militancy in the Red Brigades, ''La peggio gioventù'', about his militancy in the BR, and ''Patrie galere. Cronache dall'oltrelegge'', about his detention years.
See also
*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 ...
References
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