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Breaking-News >> TodayHistory On October 28, 1970, the Italian terrorist organization "Red Brigade" was established
55 years ago today, on October 28, 1970 (September 29, 1970 in the lunar calendar), the Italian terrorist organization "Red Brigade" was established. On October 28, 1970, the Italian terrorist organization "Red Brigade" was established. After the war, Italy's economy recovered and developed rapidly, but it also encountered many difficulties and a large number of unemployed people. Many people have been threatened and hit financially, and these people feel abandoned by this society. Those who are dissatisfied with the real society form "leftist" organizations and embark on the path of terrorist activities. The "Red Brigade" is a typical example. The mafia in Italy has existed for a long time, and its terrorist activities have affected some people. In 1968, the student movement and workers 'movement in Italy peaked one after another. Marina Petrella, former female leader of the Italian left-wing terrorist organization "Red Brigade". At that time, the Italian government adopted a university open policy. Schools of all types recruit students. However, no one asked about the students 'whereabouts and arrangements after graduation. Italy's unemployment rate is already high, and it is even more difficult to cope with the flood of students entering society. As a result, graduation became synonymous with unemployment. This situation gradually led to the climax of student demonstrations. In the autumn of 1969, Italian workers set off an "autumn fever" labor trend in order to demand increased wages and improved working conditions. Under these circumstances, the "Red Brigade" began to be established. Its founders and earliest members were either workers at the Siemens factory in the industrial city of Milan or students at the Department of Sociology at the University of Trendo in Turin. One of the founders, Renato Cucho, was a student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Trendo. While these people continued to participate in mass demonstrations at that time, they gradually came up with the idea of organizing urban guerrillas. They were inspired and inspired by the influential urban guerrillas of Guevara in South America at that time, and gained experience from the revolutionary ideas of the traditional Italian Communist Party. By the end of 1969, the "Red Brigade" was established. Its emblem is a five-pointed star surrounding a circle. In addition to Cucho, it was planned and built by Alberto Franceschini. If Cucho laid the ideological foundation for the "Red Brigade", sociologist George Zemeria formulated organizational principles for it. The Red Brigade is extremely organized. Its most basic unit is a group with no more than 5 members, and only one of them has contact with his superiors. Every six groups form a "core", set up branches in major cities, and then the brigade headquarters are formed by the "cores" from various places. Thereby forming an organizational system like a pyramid. In normal times, activities are carried out in groups. If a member of one group is caught, it will never implicate other groups. An Italian official described the Red Brigade's organization as like an earthworm cut into several sections, each of which could wriggle. From its establishment at the end of 1969 to the early 1970s, the initial period of the "Red Brigade". At that time, it mainly centered on the city of Milan, organizing and training the so-called "historic core." Students in the "Red Brigade" instigated strikes in factories and promoted the idea of "Marxist-Leninist Revolution" to workers in an attempt to induce a revolution in Italy that overthrew bourgeois rule. At the same time, the "Red Brigade" engaged in the initial "battle", an activity called "disabling the power establishment." In front of the Capitol in Rome, a senior official had just gotten out of his car when a young man suddenly rushed over from the oblique stab, raised a pistol and pointed it at his knees, and fired several times in succession, and then fled. At the Venice Airport, an official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was caught by a group of young people ambushed in the toilet while going to the toilet and tied him to the toilet. Two silent pistols were aimed at him and fired several shots into his knees. Incidents of shooting officials in the knees occurred one after another in cities such as Naples and Florence. The "Red Brigade" believes that government officials serve the power institutions, and the disability of officials symbolizes the paralysis of the regime. In addition, the "Red Brigade" also set fire to or blew up some private businesses and attacked conservative politicians and right-wing activists. In the early days of the "Red Brigade" activities, operations often succeeded and its members continued to increase. This organization seems to have theories and programs, advocates the path of violent seizure of power, and flaunts it as a "true Marxism-Leninism" organization. All this strongly attracts people from all walks of life who are dissatisfied with reality, especially young students and young workers. The "Red Brigade" quickly grew to more than 400 people during this period. In September 1974, two "historic leaders" of the "Red Brigade", Renato Cucho and Alberto Franceschini, were arrested, along with a group of key members. This marks the end of its early stages. Its so-called "second-generation" activists have begun a new stage of terrorist activity under the mark of murder. Since then, Italy has been continuously hit by the terrorist activities of the "Red Brigade". The "Red Brigade" has always been good at kidnapping activities. In December 1973, it made a big splash when it kidnapped Ettore Amelio, the personnel director of Fiat in. In April 1974, it kidnapped Genoa prosecutor Mario Sousi. In February 1975, Cucho's wife Margarita Kagor organized a prison break and "liberated" Cucho from prison. She herself was shot dead by police during the operation. In the summer of the same year, Cucho was arrested again. However, the trial of Cucho has been delayed. Kucho kept threatening the trial in court; elements of the "Red Brigade" tried their best to obstruct the trial outside and threatened to break the prison again. Korosi is a prestigious lawyer in the city of Turin who was appointed by the government as a defense lawyer for Cucho. Kucho shrugged off this. Korosi did not give up defending him because of his refusals and threats, but still collected information and prepared to appear in court. Not long after, Korosi was shot dead within walking distance of his own apartment. He also held a file bag containing materials for Curzio's defense. The "Red Brigade" claimed it was responsible for this. The trial dragged on for a long time before it resumed. The court's chief justice at that time managed to organize a jury and scheduled a new trial for March 17, 1978. However, just the day before the trial, on March 16, the "Red Brigade" kidnapped Aldo Moro, then Italian Prime Minister and Vice Chairman of the Italian Catholic Democratic Party. The kidnapping shocked Italy and the entire Western world. After abducting Moro, the "Red Brigade" repeatedly issued announcements demanding dialogue with the government and exchanging Moro for Cucho. The "Red Brigade" also published as many as eighty personal letters from Morro himself. Morro's letter called on the government to agree to the demands of the "Red Brigade". All this was rejected by the government. The government has a tough stance of not having dialogue with terrorists. The disappointed "Red Brigade" felt that Moro had lost his role in coercing the government and shot him dead just 56 days after he was detained. This will deal a heavy blow to the government. The "Red Brigade"'s killing of Moro was widely criticized by the Italian public. People began to alienate the "Red Brigade", and some people who used to sympathize with and support it also changed their stance. Its image among the Italian people has become extremely ugly. It can be said that the kidnapping and killing of Moro was a sign that the "Red Brigade" reached its peak and was also the starting point of its decline. Chaos also emerged within the "Red Brigade". Since then, the "Red Brigade" has been divided into two factions: one faction is called the "Military Faction", which advocates using terrorist means to kill all "enemies"; The other group is called the "movement group" and advocates engaging in activities to overthrow the state apparatus, but it is just empty talk about "revolution." After 1978, the "Red Brigade" reorganized around its new leader, Mario Muretti, a 34-year-old electrician at the Siemens factory in Milan. Since 1975, Muretti has been responsible for communicating with other organizations at home and abroad. Italian police were once powerless to deal with the "Red Brigade". However, by the late 1970s, the police had made some major breakthroughs, breaking several Red Brigade armouries and arresting many Red Brigade activists, including its top leaders. As a result, the police believed that the "Red Brigade", the most dangerous terrorist organization, had been destroyed. However, the police made a wrong estimate. The activities of the "Red Brigade" still did not stop in the 1980s, but its activity energy was not as good as before. In January 1980,"Red Brigade" elements assassinated Mattarella, Speaker of the Sicilian District Council of Italy. In April 1980, the Milan Column of the "Red Brigade" attacked the Milan regional office of the Italian Civil Democratic Party, injuring four people in the legs. When people heard the news and rushed, they saw former House members Nadir Ted Sorby and Eros Robian and two other victims lying in a pool of blood. In December 1980, the "Red Brigade" kidnapped Giovanni Durso, the city's official in charge of prison affairs, and demanded the closure of a medieval dung-style prison built on an island near Sardinia. This time it achieved its purpose. In April 1981, the "Red Brigade" kidnapped Ciro Ciriro, a political activist in the city of Naples and the minister in charge of housing affairs of the Central Committee of the National Democratic Party. The "Red Brigade" detained Chiriro, used video footage to show his image and threatened to kill him. The demands of the "Red Brigade" elements were to close city parks and allocate vacant private homes to people who lost their homes in the 1980 earthquake. When its demands were met, it announced that the "Chiriro compromise" had been reached. After the "Red Brigade" elements extorted more than 1 million ransom from the Tianmin Party and the Chiriro family, they released Chiriro-Chiriro. In the first half of 1981, the "Red Brigade" held three kidnapped hostages. One was a manager of a chemical company who was later killed because the manager refused to cooperate with members of the "Red Brigade". The other was Renzo Sanducci, manager of the Alpha Motor Factory, who was released on the condition that the factory abandon a plan to lay off workers; and at the same time, the 500 workers who were laid off in September 1980 would be rehired. When these demands were met, the Milan Column of the "Red Brigade" stated that "the proletarian court has decided to release Renzo Sandruzzi." The third hostage was the brother of a former Red Brigade member. After being arrested, the Red Brigade member surrendered to the court and confessed, so it detained his brother in retaliation. By the end of 1981, the "Red Brigade" carried out another kidnapping activity that caused a sensation in the world. The target of the kidnapping was U.S. Army Brigadier General James Dozier, commander of NATO's ground forces in southern Europe. This is the first time that the Red Brigade has kidnapped a foreigner. Later, according to Antonio Savasta, the leader of the "Red Brigade" who kidnapped Dozier, they planned to kidnap a "NATO" American general to expand their influence and win more support. However, they did not know who to kidnap. In Verona, they bought a pamphlet about U.S. soldiers and soldiers, and learned from the book that Dozier was the only U.S. general serving at the NATO base in Verona. So they made him a target. On December 17, the "Red Brigade" kidnapped Dozier from an apartment in the northern Italian city of Verona and detained him in a room at Apartment No. 2 Bindmont Avenue in Padua, near Verona. They held the "people's trial" of the "NATO executioner" in this "people's prison." The kidnapping of Dozier was not accidental. In the second half of 1981, the "Red Brigade" declared that it would carry out a comprehensive hierarchical struggle from a secret activity organization to a highly centralized political party. Its primary goal is the multinational center of the US Empire. It also announced the establishment of a "Terrorist International", centered on the "Red Brigade" and the "Red Army" of the Federal Republic of Germany, and uniting the Spanish terrorist organization "ETA" and the British "Irish Republican Army". The "Dozier Incident" was a political demonstration by the Red Brigade. However, the "Red Brigade" operation completely failed. After Dozier was kidnapped, with the cooperation of the CIA, Italian security agencies mobilized unprecedented forces and carried out a large-scale manhunt. The police also offered a reward of US$1.7 million in the name of the "Friends of Dozier" organization for important information about Dozier's whereabouts. At the same time, the police also adopted a targeted approach to attack the "Red Brigade" strongholds, arresting some terrorists and seizing a large amount of important materials. Giovanni Sencani, known as the "theorist" of the "Red Brigade", is an important leading member of this organization. A former university professor, he went underground a year ago, and the police have been hunting him. On January 9, 1984, the police finally arrested him in a student dormitory on the outskirts of Rome. This was found based on clues provided by two terrorists arrested the previous day. According to statistics, Italian police authorities arrested more than 130 "Red Brigade" members and suspects, including some important leaders of the "Red Brigade" during the rescue of Dozier and the raid on the "Red Brigade". 35 "Red Brigade" strongholds were cracked and a large number of confidential documents, weapons and ammunition were seized. On January 28, 1982, the police stormed into the "People's Prison" at No. 2 Bindermont Street, successfully rescued Dozier, and arrested five "Red Brigade" members on the spot, two of whom were important members of the "Red Brigade" that had been forced by the police for more than a year. The two men are Antonio Savasta, leader of the Roman detachment of the "Red Brigade", and his girlfriend Emiliki Libera. They all resisted arrest and escaped and were sentenced in absentia to 30 years in prison. This time the police finally caught them. The "Red Brigade", a mixed and deformed product of Italian society and European "revolutionary" ideas, suffered another fatal blow in 1982. Many of the "Red Brigade" members who had been stubborn in the past admitted that they had failed. Pease is a backbone member of the former "Red Brigade". After being arrested in February 1980, he confessed to the court that he had participated in 16 terrorist attacks in a grassroots organization of the "Red Brigade". He said,"I spent six years in the Red Brigade and now realize that our struggle has failed. That's why I cooperate with the authorities." According to an article in the Wall Street Journal of the United States on June 9, 1982 titled "Repented 'Red Brigade' Elements", many "Red Brigade" elements were imprisoned in Rome due to the kidnapping of former Prime Minister Aldo Moro. Some of these people were "repentants" who reversed their stance and told the judge everything they knew; others refused to answer any questions and continued to be hostile. These two groups hate each other. However, they all admit that the strength of the "Red Brigade" is a thing of the past. Antonio Savasta, the leader who kidnapped Dozier, and his girlfriend Emiliki Libera also regretted it. Then some people changed their positions. They admitted that the goal of the "Red Brigade" had not been achieved and their struggle had failed. On January 27, 1983, AFP's Rome branch reported that the former "Red Brigade" leaders imprisoned in Palmi High Security Prison publicly issued a statement announcing their decision to abandon "armed struggle." The statement was publicly published by the newspaper office of the Republic. The document was signed "Palmi Collective Leadership". The main leader was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1974, later escaped and was retried. One of the founders of the Italian "Red Brigade" Renato Cucho. Although the "Red Brigade" suffered serious setbacks, it did not disappear from the Italian political stage. In May 1983, a new leadership organization for the "Red Brigade" appeared again. It published a 28-page document claiming that "in order to formulate a new program and line of struggle and create a fighting Communist Party, we have implemented a strategic retreat for more than a year." By 1984, new terrorist activities emerged again. On the evening of February 15, in the bustling urban area of Rome, a limousine parked in front of a two-story building. Suddenly, three people jumped out of a blue truck parked across the street and fired at the car. The driver of the car shouted and told the people in the car to lie down. The car's thick steel plates and three layers of bulletproof glass blocked the attack of bullets. At this time, a terrorist shot at the edge of the rear window of the car. A bullet went through a rubber ring on the edge of the rear window and hit an American in the head, killing him instantly. He is Limon Hunt, a 56-year-old U.S. diplomat who lives in Rome and heads the multinational peacekeeping force in Sinai. Half an hour after the incident, Radio Milan received an anonymous phone call calling themselves "fighting Communists" and saying they were responsible for the attack. Italian authorities are convinced that the group is another extremist faction of the Red Brigade, and this incident shows that after two years of failure, the Red Brigade is back on the rise and beginning to operate. What worries Italian authorities in particular is that fugitives from the "Red Brigade" may have merged with terrorists from some radical Islamic countries in the Middle East. Hunt, the American who was killed, was not a senior official. His assassination was obviously related to the situation in the Middle East. It was his position that made him a target. Italian authorities believe the Hunt assassination was the most serious terrorist incident since the kidnapping of Dozier in 1981. Sarkozy and Bruni On October 13, 2008, French President Nicolas Sarkozy admitted that Bruni told Petrella, a former member of the Italian left-wing terrorist organization "Red Brigade", last week that France had cancelled the extradition decision and that she would not have to return home to accept the punishment of life imprisonment. Bruni's second sister Valeria revealed that she helped persuade Sarkozy to make the decision. The two sisters 'intervention in politics has aroused dissatisfaction from all parties and may even trigger a diplomatic storm between France and Italy. It seems that the "Red Brigade" still exists tenaciously!55 years ago today, on October 28, 1970 (September 29, 1970 in the lunar calendar), the Italian terrorist organization "Red Brigade" was established. On October 28, 1970, the Italian terrorist organization "Red Brigade" was established. After the war, Italy's economy recovered and developed rapidly, but it also encountered many difficulties and a large number of unemployed people. Many people have been threatened and hit financially, and these people feel abandoned by this society. Those who are dissatisfied with the real society form "leftist" organizations and embark on the path of terrorist activities. The "Red Brigade" is a typical example. The mafia in Italy has existed for a long time, and its terrorist activities have affected some people. In 1968, the student movement and workers 'movement in Italy peaked one after another. Marina Petrella, former female leader of the Italian left-wing terrorist organization "Red Brigade". At that time, the Italian government adopted a university open policy. Schools of all types recruit students. However, no one asked about the students 'whereabouts and arrangements after graduation. Italy's unemployment rate is already high, and it is even more difficult to cope with the flood of students entering society. As a result, graduation became synonymous with unemployment. This situation gradually led to the climax of student demonstrations. In the autumn of 1969, Italian workers set off an "autumn fever" labor trend in order to demand increased wages and improved working conditions. Under these circumstances, the "Red Brigade" began to be established. Its founders and earliest members were either workers at the Siemens factory in the industrial city of Milan or students at the Department of Sociology at the University of Trendo in Turin. One of the founders, Renato Cucho, was a student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Trendo. While these people continued to participate in mass demonstrations at that time, they gradually came up with the idea of organizing urban guerrillas. They were inspired and inspired by the influential urban guerrillas of Guevara in South America at that time, and gained experience from the revolutionary ideas of the traditional Italian Communist Party. By the end of 1969, the "Red Brigade" was established. Its emblem is a five-pointed star surrounding a circle. In addition to Cucho, it was planned and built by Alberto Franceschini. If Cucho laid the ideological foundation for the "Red Brigade", sociologist George Zemeria formulated organizational principles for it. The Red Brigade is extremely organized. Its most basic unit is a group with no more than 5 members, and only one of them has contact with his superiors. Every six groups form a "core", set up branches in major cities, and then the brigade headquarters are formed by the "cores" from various places. Thereby forming an organizational system like a pyramid. In normal times, activities are carried out in groups. If a member of one group is caught, it will never implicate other groups. An Italian official described the Red Brigade's organization as like an earthworm cut into several sections, each of which could wriggle. From its establishment at the end of 1969 to the early 1970s, the initial period of the "Red Brigade". At that time, it mainly centered on the city of Milan, organizing and training the so-called "historic core." Students in the "Red Brigade" instigated strikes in factories and promoted the idea of "Marxist-Leninist Revolution" to workers in an attempt to induce a revolution in Italy that overthrew bourgeois rule. At the same time, the "Red Brigade" engaged in the initial "battle", an activity called "disabling the power establishment." In front of the Capitol in Rome, a senior official had just gotten out of his car when a young man suddenly rushed over from the oblique stab, raised a pistol and pointed it at his knees, and fired several times in succession, and then fled. At the Venice Airport, an official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was caught by a group of young people ambushed in the toilet while going to the toilet and tied him to the toilet. Two silent pistols were aimed at him and fired several shots into his knees. Incidents of shooting officials in the knees occurred one after another in cities such as Naples and Florence. The "Red Brigade" believes that government officials serve the power institutions, and the disability of officials symbolizes the paralysis of the regime. In addition, the "Red Brigade" also set fire to or blew up some private businesses and attacked conservative politicians and right-wing activists. In the early days of the "Red Brigade" activities, operations often succeeded and its members continued to increase. This organization seems to have theories and programs, advocates the path of violent seizure of power, and flaunts it as a "true Marxism-Leninism" organization. All this strongly attracts people from all walks of life who are dissatisfied with reality, especially young students and young workers. The "Red Brigade" quickly grew to more than 400 people during this period. In September 1974, two "historic leaders" of the "Red Brigade", Renato Cucho and Alberto Franceschini, were arrested, along with a group of key members. This marks the end of its early stages. Its so-called "second-generation" activists have begun a new stage of terrorist activity under the mark of murder. Since then, Italy has been continuously hit by the terrorist activities of the "Red Brigade". The "Red Brigade" has always been good at kidnapping activities. In December 1973, it made a big splash when it kidnapped Ettore Amelio, the personnel director of Fiat in. In April 1974, it kidnapped Genoa prosecutor Mario Sousi. In February 1975, Cucho's wife Margarita Kagor organized a prison break and "liberated" Cucho from prison. She herself was shot dead by police during the operation. In the summer of the same year, Cucho was arrested again. However, the trial of Cucho has been delayed. Kucho kept threatening the trial in court; elements of the "Red Brigade" tried their best to obstruct the trial outside and threatened to break the prison again. Korosi is a prestigious lawyer in the city of Turin who was appointed by the government as a defense lawyer for Cucho. Kucho shrugged off this. Korosi did not give up defending him because of his refusals and threats, but still collected information and prepared to appear in court. Not long after, Korosi was shot dead within walking distance of his own apartment. He also held a file bag containing materials for Curzio's defense. The "Red Brigade" claimed it was responsible for this. The trial dragged on for a long time before it resumed. The court's chief justice at that time managed to organize a jury and scheduled a new trial for March 17, 1978. However, just the day before the trial, on March 16, the "Red Brigade" kidnapped Aldo Moro, then Italian Prime Minister and Vice Chairman of the Italian Catholic Democratic Party. The kidnapping shocked Italy and the entire Western world. After abducting Moro, the "Red Brigade" repeatedly issued announcements demanding dialogue with the government and exchanging Moro for Cucho. The "Red Brigade" also published as many as eighty personal letters from Morro himself. Morro's letter called on the government to agree to the demands of the "Red Brigade". All this was rejected by the government. The government has a tough stance of not having dialogue with terrorists. The disappointed "Red Brigade" felt that Moro had lost his role in coercing the government and shot him dead just 56 days after he was detained. This will deal a heavy blow to the government. The "Red Brigade"'s killing of Moro was widely criticized by the Italian public. People began to alienate the "Red Brigade", and some people who used to sympathize with and support it also changed their stance. Its image among the Italian people has become extremely ugly. It can be said that the kidnapping and killing of Moro was a sign that the "Red Brigade" reached its peak and was also the starting point of its decline. Chaos also emerged within the "Red Brigade". Since then, the "Red Brigade" has been divided into two factions: one faction is called the "Military Faction", which advocates using terrorist means to kill all "enemies"; The other group is called the "movement group" and advocates engaging in activities to overthrow the state apparatus, but it is just empty talk about "revolution." After 1978, the "Red Brigade" reorganized around its new leader, Mario Muretti, a 34-year-old electrician at the Siemens factory in Milan. Since 1975, Muretti has been responsible for communicating with other organizations at home and abroad. Italian police were once powerless to deal with the "Red Brigade". However, by the late 1970s, the police had made some major breakthroughs, breaking several Red Brigade armouries and arresting many Red Brigade activists, including its top leaders. As a result, the police believed that the "Red Brigade", the most dangerous terrorist organization, had been destroyed. However, the police made a wrong estimate. The activities of the "Red Brigade" still did not stop in the 1980s, but its activity energy was not as good as before. In January 1980,"Red Brigade" elements assassinated Mattarella, Speaker of the Sicilian District Council of Italy. In April 1980, the Milan Column of the "Red Brigade" attacked the Milan regional office of the Italian Civil Democratic Party, injuring four people in the legs. When people heard the news and rushed, they saw former House members Nadir Ted Sorby and Eros Robian and two other victims lying in a pool of blood. In December 1980, the "Red Brigade" kidnapped Giovanni Durso, the city's official in charge of prison affairs, and demanded the closure of a medieval dung-style prison built on an island near Sardinia. This time it achieved its purpose. In April 1981, the "Red Brigade" kidnapped Ciro Ciriro, a political activist in the city of Naples and the minister in charge of housing affairs of the Central Committee of the National Democratic Party. The "Red Brigade" detained Chiriro, used video footage to show his image and threatened to kill him. The demands of the "Red Brigade" elements were to close city parks and allocate vacant private homes to people who lost their homes in the 1980 earthquake. When its demands were met, it announced that the "Chiriro compromise" had been reached. After the "Red Brigade" elements extorted more than 1 million ransom from the Tianmin Party and the Chiriro family, they released Chiriro-Chiriro. In the first half of 1981, the "Red Brigade" held three kidnapped hostages. One was a manager of a chemical company who was later killed because the manager refused to cooperate with members of the "Red Brigade". The other was Renzo Sanducci, manager of the Alpha Motor Factory, who was released on the condition that the factory abandon a plan to lay off workers; and at the same time, the 500 workers who were laid off in September 1980 would be rehired. When these demands were met, the Milan Column of the "Red Brigade" stated that "the proletarian court has decided to release Renzo Sandruzzi." The third hostage was the brother of a former Red Brigade member. After being arrested, the Red Brigade member surrendered to the court and confessed, so it detained his brother in retaliation. By the end of 1981, the "Red Brigade" carried out another kidnapping activity that caused a sensation in the world. The target of the kidnapping was U.S. Army Brigadier General James Dozier, commander of NATO's ground forces in southern Europe. This is the first time that the Red Brigade has kidnapped a foreigner. Later, according to Antonio Savasta, the leader of the "Red Brigade" who kidnapped Dozier, they planned to kidnap a "NATO" American general to expand their influence and win more support. However, they did not know who to kidnap. In Verona, they bought a pamphlet about U.S. soldiers and soldiers, and learned from the book that Dozier was the only U.S. general serving at the NATO base in Verona. So they made him a target. On December 17, the "Red Brigade" kidnapped Dozier from an apartment in the northern Italian city of Verona and detained him in a room at Apartment No. 2 Bindmont Avenue in Padua, near Verona. They held the "people's trial" of the "NATO executioner" in this "people's prison." The kidnapping of Dozier was not accidental. In the second half of 1981, the "Red Brigade" declared that it would carry out a comprehensive hierarchical struggle from a secret activity organization to a highly centralized political party. Its primary goal is the multinational center of the US Empire. It also announced the establishment of a "Terrorist International", centered on the "Red Brigade" and the "Red Army" of the Federal Republic of Germany, and uniting the Spanish terrorist organization "ETA" and the British "Irish Republican Army". The "Dozier Incident" was a political demonstration by the Red Brigade. However, the "Red Brigade" operation completely failed. After Dozier was kidnapped, with the cooperation of the CIA, Italian security agencies mobilized unprecedented forces and carried out a large-scale manhunt. The police also offered a reward of US$1.7 million in the name of the "Friends of Dozier" organization for important information about Dozier's whereabouts. At the same time, the police also adopted a targeted approach to attack the "Red Brigade" strongholds, arresting some terrorists and seizing a large amount of important materials. Giovanni Sencani, known as the "theorist" of the "Red Brigade", is an important leading member of this organization. A former university professor, he went underground a year ago, and the police have been hunting him. On January 9, 1984, the police finally arrested him in a student dormitory on the outskirts of Rome. This was found based on clues provided by two terrorists arrested the previous day. According to statistics, Italian police authorities arrested more than 130 "Red Brigade" members and suspects, including some important leaders of the "Red Brigade" during the rescue of Dozier and the raid on the "Red Brigade". 35 "Red Brigade" strongholds were cracked and a large number of confidential documents, weapons and ammunition were seized. On January 28, 1982, the police stormed into the "People's Prison" at No. 2 Bindermont Street, successfully rescued Dozier, and arrested five "Red Brigade" members on the spot, two of whom were important members of the "Red Brigade" that had been forced by the police for more than a year. The two men are Antonio Savasta, leader of the Roman detachment of the "Red Brigade", and his girlfriend Emiliki Libera. They all resisted arrest and escaped and were sentenced in absentia to 30 years in prison. This time the police finally caught them. The "Red Brigade", a mixed and deformed product of Italian society and European "revolutionary" ideas, suffered another fatal blow in 1982. Many of the "Red Brigade" members who had been stubborn in the past admitted that they had failed. Pease is a backbone member of the former "Red Brigade". After being arrested in February 1980, he confessed to the court that he had participated in 16 terrorist attacks in a grassroots organization of the "Red Brigade". He said,"I spent six years in the Red Brigade and now realize that our struggle has failed. That's why I cooperate with the authorities." According to an article in the Wall Street Journal of the United States on June 9, 1982 titled "Repented 'Red Brigade' Elements", many "Red Brigade" elements were imprisoned in Rome due to the kidnapping of former Prime Minister Aldo Moro. Some of these people were "repentants" who reversed their stance and told the judge everything they knew; others refused to answer any questions and continued to be hostile. These two groups hate each other. However, they all admit that the strength of the "Red Brigade" is a thing of the past. Antonio Savasta, the leader who kidnapped Dozier, and his girlfriend Emiliki Libera also regretted it. Then some people changed their positions. They admitted that the goal of the "Red Brigade" had not been achieved and their struggle had failed. On January 27, 1983, AFP's Rome branch reported that the former "Red Brigade" leaders imprisoned in Palmi High Security Prison publicly issued a statement announcing their decision to abandon "armed struggle." The statement was publicly published by the newspaper office of the Republic. The document was signed "Palmi Collective Leadership". The main leader was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1974, later escaped and was retried. One of the founders of the Italian "Red Brigade" Renato Cucho. Although the "Red Brigade" suffered serious setbacks, it did not disappear from the Italian political stage. In May 1983, a new leadership organization for the "Red Brigade" appeared again. It published a 28-page document claiming that "in order to formulate a new program and line of struggle and create a fighting Communist Party, we have implemented a strategic retreat for more than a year." By 1984, new terrorist activities emerged again. On the evening of February 15, in the bustling urban area of Rome, a limousine parked in front of a two-story building. Suddenly, three people jumped out of a blue truck parked across the street and fired at the car. The driver of the car shouted and told the people in the car to lie down. The car's thick steel plates and three layers of bulletproof glass blocked the attack of bullets. At this time, a terrorist shot at the edge of the rear window of the car. A bullet went through a rubber ring on the edge of the rear window and hit an American in the head, killing him instantly. He is Limon Hunt, a 56-year-old U.S. diplomat who lives in Rome and heads the multinational peacekeeping force in Sinai. Half an hour after the incident, Radio Milan received an anonymous phone call calling themselves "fighting Communists" and saying they were responsible for the attack. Italian authorities are convinced that the group is another extremist faction of the Red Brigade, and this incident shows that after two years of failure, the Red Brigade is back on the rise and beginning to operate. What worries Italian authorities in particular is that fugitives from the "Red Brigade" may have merged with terrorists from some radical Islamic countries in the Middle East. Hunt, the American who was killed, was not a senior official. His assassination was obviously related to the situation in the Middle East. It was his position that made him a target. Italian authorities believe the Hunt assassination was the most serious terrorist incident since the kidnapping of Dozier in 1981. Sarkozy and Bruni On October 13, 2008, French President Nicolas Sarkozy admitted that Bruni told Petrella, a former member of the Italian left-wing terrorist organization "Red Brigade", last week that France had cancelled the extradition decision and that she would not have to return home to accept the punishment of life imprisonment. Bruni's second sister Valeria revealed that she helped persuade Sarkozy to make the decision. The two sisters 'intervention in politics has aroused dissatisfaction from all parties and may even trigger a diplomatic storm between France and Italy. It seems that the "Red Brigade" still exists tenaciously! News raw data sources → https://www.abtool.cn/today_detail/152x.html 17WorldNews[2025.09.27-13:40] 访问:80
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