The government wants to prevent the return of the Red Brigades, Justice Minister Carlo Nordio said at the presentation Thursday of a new security package framed in the wake of anarchist rioting that injured 100 police in Turin last Saturday.
"We are trying, through prevention, to prevent those sad moments from happening again," Nordio said at the press conference following a cabinet meeting, referring to the regulations introduced with the security decree and the phenomenon of the Red Brigades, a Marxist terror group responsible for political violence in the 1970s and '80s including the 1978 assassination of Christian Democrat leader Aldo Moro.
Nordio recalled the actions of the Red Brigades during the so-called Years of Lead, a phenomenon "born precisely because of insufficient attention, even from the State, to these forms of hateful aggression against law enforcement, which had been neglected.
"Let's remember the expressions 'comrades who are going wrong' (used by leftwing sympathisers, ed.) and 'so-called Red Brigades' (used by liberals downplaying the danger, ed.."
