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Barbara Balzerani, the former leader of the "Red Brigade" who took hostage and killed Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro, dies

2024-03-04 17:46:26Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Barbara Balzerani, the former leader of the "Red Brigade" who took
Barbara Balzerani

Barbara Balzerani, former member and leader of the Red Brigade, passed away at the age of 75.

The news was announced by Silvia De Bernardinis, author of several books about the Red Brigade. Balzerani played an important role in the section of the Red Brigade in Rome and, among other operations, participated in the kidnapping of Aldo Moro on March 16, 1978 in via Fani, where five members of the escort of the then president of the Christian Democrats were killed.

Balzerani was born in 1949 in Collegerro and in 1969 he moved to Rome to study philosophy. During her studies, she began to frequent the circles of the extra-parliamentary left and then joined the Red Brigades in 1975. From 1977 onwards she led a secret life. She held the post of director of the Red Brigade column in Rome and took part in several attacks, including the assassination of magistrate Girolamo Minervini in March 1980.

Above all, Balzerani took part in the ambush in Via Fani, where five members of Aldo Moro's escort were killed and the former prime minister was kidnapped. During the kidnapping, Balzerani and Mario Moretti (a member of the historical core of the Red Brigade) hid in the base in via Gradoli, Rome. The same base was later discovered by the police on April 18, 1978, after Moro's kidnapping and before his murder. At that moment neither Moreti nor Balzerani were inside. The intervention of the police came as a result of a distraction of the woman, who before leaving the house left the shower open, causing flooding which alerted the neighbors.

Barbara Balzerani, the former leader of the "Red Brigade" who took
Barbara Balzerani

Moretti was then arrested in 1981. Balzerani took part in the period of the breakup of the Red Brigade, leading the faction of the BR "Fighting Communist Party", against the BR "Guerrile Party". She was then arrested in 1985. She was among the last members of the Red Brigade to be captured. At that time, she was also known as the "Red Pimpernel". While in prison, she claimed responsibility for the assassination of former Florence mayor Lando Conti in February 1986 by the Red Brigade. She was sentenced to life imprisonment.

In the years following her conviction, Balzerani was critical of the armed struggle, but did not repent or explicitly dissociate herself from the period of militancy. In 1993 she said she felt "deep regret" for those whose "loved ones were affected" by what happened in the Red Brigade years, and later completely dissociated herself from the New Red Brigade born in in 1999. In 2006 she was released on bail and in 2011, after serving her sentence, she returned to full freedom. Since then she had published four books. The last one, in 2020, was called "Letter to my father".

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