Moretti, Mario

Early life

Mario Moretti was born on January 16, 1946 in the municipality of Porto San Giorgio . According to Moretti himself, his parents belonged to the working class , and his father always voted for the Communists in the elections. But the parliamentary commission investigating the abduction of Aldo Moro found that Mario's father was not really a worker, but was engaged in the resale of cattle. According to the parliamentary commission, Moretti's mother worked at the school as a music teacher. The commission also found that conservative and Catholic traditions were strong in the Moretti family ^[4] .

Moretti, thanks to the patronage of the Italian aristocrat Anna Casati Stump, in whose palace he worked at one time as a loader, he entered the College of Technology in Fermo , where he received the profession of telecommunications technician. Moretti was remembered by his fellow practitioners as a calm and shy young man with almost no interest in politics ^[5] .

In 1966, Mario moved to Milan and got a job in the Italian branch of Siemens . He also decided to continue his education and entered the Faculty of Economics and Trade of the Catholic University of Milan . At the university, Moretti studied without much success. But in 1968 he met with a group of left-wing radical students, among whom were future fighters of the Red Brigades, Giorgio Semeria, Corrado Alunni and Paolo Bezuzio, and began to participate in rallies and protests ^[6] .

In 1969, Moretti, who already considered himself a communist, met the future founder of the Red Brigades Renato Kurcho and his wife Margarita Kagol . Due to disagreements with Kurcho, whom Moretti criticized for his tendency to violent acts, Mario did not participate in the founding of the Red Brigades and the first actions of the new left-wing radical organization were held without his participation ^[7] .

Red Brigades

In the spring of 1971, Moretti, after talking with Kurcho and Franceschini, was admitted to the Red Brigades. In June of that year, he and Kurcho participated in his first robbery in Perugia . In the following years, Moretti took part in the abductions of Siemens engineer Hidalgo Macchiarini and Judge Mario Sossi, as well as in the release of Kurcho from prison ^[8] .

After the death of Margarita Kagol and the second arrest, Kurcho Moretti led the Red Brigades. Moretti counted on a sharp increase in terror against state institutions. During the command of Moretti, the Red Brigades committed the largest number of terrorist attacks. Under him, Red Brigade fighters began to attack journalists accused of "counter-revolutionism."

In 1977, Moretti organized the abduction of shipowner Petra Costa for ransom. The ransom received in the amount of one and a half billion lire allowed maintaining the financial position of the organization at the required level over the next few years ^[9] .

Moretti also engaged in establishing international relations of the Red Brigades. He managed to establish contacts with RAF , IRA , ETA and OOP ^[10] . An agreement was reached with the Palestinians on the delivery of weapons and on the organization of training for Red Brigade fighters in Lebanon . However, the last paragraph was never implemented.

On March 16, 1978, Moretti organized the abduction of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro . The purpose of the abduction was to force the Italian government to negotiate with the Red Brigades. By doing this, the terrorists wanted to demonstrate "the powerlessness of the bourgeois state." However, the government did not negotiate, and after much debate among the brigades themselves, it was decided to execute the prisoner. According to Moretti, he personally shot Moreau ^[11] . According to the facts established at a court in 1982, the ex-prime minister was shot by another terrorist leader, Prospero Gallinari (1951-2013) ^[2] .

Moretti subsequently organized the assassination of General Enrico Calvaligi and the abduction of Judge Giovanni D'Urso. In the case of D'Urso, the authorities negotiated with the terrorists and complied with their demands by freeing the deadly sick leader of the left-wing radical organization Revolutionary Action Gianfranco Faina from prison and closing the special Fornelli section of Asinara Prison, where police mocked the arrested Reds brigades ^[12] .

Arrest and Detention

On April 4, 1981, Mario Moretti was arrested along with four associates by police at the Milan train station. The arrest was made possible thanks to police informant Renato Longo, who provided the police with information about the whereabouts of Moretti ^[13] .

Moretti refused to cooperate with the investigation and was sentenced to six life sentences. In prison he was assassinated - one of the prisoners stabbed Moretti in the stomach with a knife. The version was published that the attack was organized by policemen who wanted to take revenge on Moretti for their dead colleagues ^[14] .

In 1988, Mario Moretti, along with Renato Kurcho and Alberto Franceschini, made a televised address, urging the remaining free brigade fighters to stop the armed struggle because of its futility ^[15] .

Parole

In 1998, Moretti received parole.

Lives in Milan, where he works in a computer lab ^{[16] [17]} .

September 29, 1969 married the teacher of kindergarten Amelia Kokchetti. In marriage, the son of Massimo Marcello was born. Subsequently, the couple divorced.

In the mid-1990s, Moretti married his second marriage to a journalist who in 1996 gave birth to his daughter Katerina.

On January 19, 2013, the Italian press mentioned that Mario Moretti was not able to attend the Gallinari funeral, where the Red Brigade veterans gathered, ^[1] .

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• Mario Moretti, Rossana Rossanda, Carla Mosca, Brigate Rosse. Una storia italiana, Milano, Baldini & Castoldi, 1998, ISBN 88-8089-487-0 .
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• Mario Moretti's biography on Encyclopedia Terroristika
• Valerio Lucarelli: "Mario Moretti"