Forty-six years old. Of questions, of non-answers, of half-truths, of imaginative or plausible hypotheses. But it is evidently still ‘too early’ to know the whole truth. May 9, 1978 is a tragic date but at the same time a piece of Italian history.
Franco Trittoborn Francesco, was an Italian jurist and academic, assistant to Aldo Moro. He is the one who receives the call from the Red Brigades which announced the death of the then president of the DC. The dialogue between the two, recorded, confronts two inevitably diametrically opposed states of mind: the coldness and decision of the Red Brigade member Valerio Morucci, the apparent calm mixed with emotion of Tritto.
The interview immediately gives you chills. “They are from the Red Brigades, do you understand? I can’t spend much time on the phone”, Morucci’s words. Who without mincing words tells Tritto to go and tell the family, “in person”, where to find “the body of Aldo Moro”, he tells a moved Tritto. “We are fulfilling the president’s last wishes by telling the family where to find his body,” Morucci continues.
Moro was kidnapped on March 16, 1978. During the 55 days of captivity, the president of the DC is subjected to long interrogations by the Red Brigade member Mario Moretti and for each topic Moro wrote a ‘minute’ in his own hand on squared sheets of paper, filling in several blocks. These documents, written personally by Moro and then typewritten by his BR during his imprisonment, constituted the so-called Moro Memorial.
THE FINDING OF THE BODY
The interrogations were recorded on a normal tape recorder, but the reels containing Moretti’s questions and Moro’s answers were never found. After then the images of the crowd flocking to Via Caetaniin Rome, the body of Aldo Moro in the red Renault 4: an indelible passage in the history of Italy. Moro, who was 61 years old, was buried in the municipality of Torrita Tiberina, a small town in the Roman province where the statesman loved to stay. He was 61 years old.
In the world of politics Aldo Moro was everything: academic and jurist, political secretary and president of the national council of the Christian Democrats. Among the founders of the Christian Democracy and its representative in the Constituent Assembly, he became its secretary (1959) and president (1976). He was a minister several times; five times President of the Council of Ministers, he led centre-left governments (1963/68), promoting in the 1974/76 period what was the so-called strategy of attention towards the Communist Party.
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