Red Brigades Founder Freed 30 Years Early
ROME — Alberto Franceschini, one of the founders and leaders of the Red Brigades leftist terrorist group, has been released from prison 30 years early, after 18 years behind bars.
His lawyer, Ambra Giovene, said Wednesday that Franceschini, 45, benefited from a 1987 law reducing jail terms for terrorists who renounced their past.
While in jail, Franceschini renounced the “armed revolution†the Red Brigades espoused in the 1980s.
Renato Curcio, who is still in jail, and Franceschini organized and led the initial actions of the Red Brigades in 1972. Both were already in jail in 1978 when the Red Brigades kidnaped and killed Aldo Moro, Italy’s former prime minister.
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