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Apr 28, 2021 · Getty Images. The Red Brigades sowed chaos at a time of social and political turmoil in Italy. France has detained seven former members of far-left Italian militant groups, including the...
Jun 24, 2022 · 24 June 2022. By Mark Lowen,BBC Italy correspondent. BBC. Luigi Marangoni, the husband of Vanna (right, with her daughter Francesca), was shot dead by the Red Brigades in 1981. Italy's...
Apr 28, 2021 · Several former members of the Red Brigades — a violent, radical-left Italian terrorist group that was active in the 1970s and 1980s — were arrested Wednesday in France after years of living...
The first was the legaltrial, in a fortified barracks in Turin, of 15 Red Brigades memberscharged with previous counts of kidnaping, assassination and armedinsurrection. Though the trial has...
Beginning in 1970 and spanning over a decade, the “Brigate Rosse” (Red Brigades) and other smaller groups incited a wave of fear across Italy as political sabotage, kidnappings, and murders shook many metropolitan centers in what was later called “The Years of Lead.”
Jul 6, 2014 · The Red Brigades, known as Brigate Rosse (BR) in Italy, was one of the most influential armed groups in Europe. Founded in 1970 and active until the early 1980s, the Red Brigades had 400 to 500 full-time members throughout this period, along with an unidentified number of supporters.
Jan 7, 2016 · This context helps us to understand better than before three key events of the years 1968–1973: the emergence of the first terrorist groups in Italy (the Partisans Action Groups and the Red Brigades); the bombing of the electric mains line where Giangiacomo Feltrinelli lost his life; and the car crash in which Enrico Berlinguer was involved in 1...
