Guards’ fatal ignorance
NZPA Rome The widow of Aldo Moro, the former Italian Prime Minister who was kidnapped and murdered by Red Brigades terrorists in 1978, testified yesterday that his bodyguards did not know how to fire their sub-machine-guns. Eleonora Moro spoke .at the trial of 63 men and women accused of the murder and of other crimes by the Leftist Red Brigades. She said that her husband.
fearful because of death threats, had requested a bul-let-proof car before the kidnapping but officials refused, saying they lacked funds. Mr Moro had served five times as Prime Minister between 1963-68 and was a top official of the governing Christian Democratic Party when he was kidnapped. His five bodyguards were shot and killed when the kidnappers opened fire after blocking his car in a Rome
street. Mrs Moro said that the guards.’ sub-machine-guns were in the boot at the time of the shooting because they had never trained with them and did not know how to use them. The trial began on April 15 and is expected to last a year, with 377 witnesses giving evidence. Mr Moro was abducted on March 16. 1978, and was killed and his body left in a car 55 days later.’
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Press, 14 July 1982, Page 8
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