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Red Brigades and RAF be like...
To be fair, my reading group fell apart during the chapter on the Working Day.

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Today in Labor History March 16, 1978: The far-left terrorist group Red Brigades (BR) kidnapped Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro. They murdered him 55 days later. There are lots of hypotheses about their motivations, many of which are considered fringe. One hypothesis claims they did it to stop Moro’s mediation between the Communist Party and the Christian Democrats in order to halt the CP’s rise to power so as to increase the BR’s influence within the Left. Other hypotheses include the idea that BR had been infiltrated and manipulated by the CIA or by Gladio, a clandestine paramilitary associated with NATO.

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Argentina: Judges Order Release of Leonardo Bertulazzi, Former Red Brigades Member

Judges Alejandro Slokar and Ángela Ledesma ordered the release of a former member of the Red Brigades whom the Argentine State recognized as a political refugee 20 years ago and who was imprisoned for more than three months due to an operation by the minister.

The Federal Court of Criminal Cassation dismantled, at least temporarily, a staging by Minister Patricia Bullrich and her chief of staff Carlos Manfroni by which they kept imprisoned for almost three months a former member of the Red Brigades whom the Argentine State recognized as a political refugee 20 years ago. Judges Alejandro Slokar and Ángela Ledesma ordered his release by annulling the resolution of the Federal Court that validated the press operation of the libertarian government, criticizing it because the Italian citizen’s roots in Argentina had not been weighed and his refugee status was still in force.

Leonardo Bertulazzi, 72, was accused of participating in the 1977 kidnapping of businessman Piero Costa, who was released after paying a million-dollar ransom. That same year he was detained until the end of 1979, so he had no connection with the assassination of Prime Minister Aldo Moro in 1978, as was erroneously reported. He managed to escape from Italy, where he was convicted in absentia, and in July 2003 he was discovered in Buenos Aires. He was detained for eight months but Judge María Servini released him because Argentine law does not provide for extradition in cases of conviction in absentia. In 2004 he was considered a political refugee by the National Commission for Refugees (CONARE). In 2018, the Italian Court of Cassation confirmed the extinction of the sentence by statute of limitations, so he could return to his country without risk of being arrested, but months later the Court of Appeal of Genoa determined that the statute of limitations had not occurred because his detention in Argentina had restarted the counting of the term from zero. None of this affected his freedom in Argentina, not only because of the recognition as a refugee but also because of the rulings of the Supreme Court of Justice against the extradition of people convicted in absentia.

His situation changed abruptly on August 29, two days after Vice President Victoria Villarruel promised to reopen the trials of former Montoneros militants. That Thursday, CONARE – in which the government of Javier Milei, in use of the powers delegated by the Bases Law, included by decree a member of the Ministry of Security and eliminated the position corresponding to INADI – declared the cessation of Bertulazzi’s refugee status and, in record time, his arrest was ordered, which Bullrich publicized on anti-social networks: “We arrested a terrorist former Red Brigades of Italy,” she headlined. She accused him of having “been part of the gang that kidnapped and murdered former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro,” which took place while Bertulazzi was in prison, and fantasized that “we caught him” (sic) thanks to “deep intelligence work by the Ministry of Security, the DNIC (read National Directorate of Criminal Intelligence), the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of the Interior.” The dangerous terrorist was in the house where he has lived for twenty years.

Chamber 2 of the Federal Court confirmed the rejection of his release on September 12, a resolution on which Cassation has now ruled. With the votes of Slokar and Ledesma, and the dissent of Guillermo Yacobucci, it allowed the appeal filed by the official defense, regarding the freedom of the refugee. Slokar, who led the agreement, argued that the Federal Court’s decision had not evaluated the applicant’s personal circumstances, which would be conducive to granting freedom. He recalled that on October 7, 2004 “he was recognized as a refugee by the Executive Branch” and highlighted the existence of the defendant’s roots in our country, based on the fact that “he has lived with his wife for twenty years in the same home, of which – by the way – he is the owner.”

In his opinion, referring to the suspensive effect of the administrative and judicial appeals against the resolution of August 29 – which had his status as a political refugee terminated – he highlighted the appellant’s allegations: “since we are within the period of 180 days prior to its filing […] until it is complied with, the guarantee of non-refoulement must be respected while the cessation is not final,” according to the General Law on Refugee Recognition and Protection, number 26,165. Slokar and Ledesma decided to admit the appeal filed by the official defense and order the court to issue a new resolution, in accordance with the established criteria.

Source: Página 12

(Resumen Latinoamericano)

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=12768

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Police in Argentina have arrested a former Red Brigades member who has spent more than 40 years free from state repression in Italy, where he is wanted for revolutionary actions, which the state labels as kidnapping and criminal association; claiming that he allegedly participated in these actions as part of the far-left guerrilla group.

Leonardo Bertulazzi had been living in Argentina for years as a refugee, a status he lost under the regime of the country’s radical fascist president, Javier Milei. He was previously sentenced in absentia to 27 years in prison, and Italian police officers were present in Buenos Aires during his capture. Italy, like Argentina, is now being governed by a fascist leader.

The Red Brigades were responsible for dozens of revolutionary attacks deaths during Italy’s “Years of Lead” in the 1970s and 80s.

“Bertulazzi is responsible for crimes that undermined ‘democratic’ values and the lives of many victims,” the fascist Argentinian government said in an absurd statement.

A fugitive since 1980, Bertulazzi was found guilty of articipating in the kidnapping of the naval engineer Piero Costa in Genoa in January 1977. Costa, a member of one of the wealthiest Genoese ship-owning families, was abducted near his home in Castelletto, when two armed guerrillas seizing him and pushing him into the passenger seat of a Fiat 132.

Initially, a ransom of 10bn lire was demanded, but negotiations with the Costa family led to a reduction of the demand to 1.5bn lire. The payment was made and Costa was released in early April 1977, bound hand and foot.

According to investigators, the kidnapping of Costa was aimed at obtaining financial means to subsidise terrorist activities.

Bertulazzi had been at the centre of a complex legal situation that allowed him to live as a free man despite being wanted in Italy and with everyone knowing his whereabouts. He was arrested in 2002 in Buenos Aires after a joint investigation with Interpol, but was released eight months later because his Italian trials had been held in absentia, preventing his extradition.

The government of the facsist Italian prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, welcomed the news of his arrest. “The arrest of the fugitive member of the Red Brigades was made possible through an intense and fruitful collaboration among the Italian judicial authorities, Argentine officials and Interpol,” a statement said.

Italian authorities do not expect his imminent return to Italy. Bertulazzi’s lawyers have filed an appeal against the decision of the Argentine commission for refugees to revoke his refugee status, and even if that is rejected, the extradition process could be prolonged.

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/08/31/former-red-brigades-member-leonardo-bertulazzi-facing-repression-from-far-right-argentinian-regime/

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Today in Labor History March 16, 1978: The far-left terrorist group Red Brigades (BR) kidnapped Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro. They murdered him 55 days later. There are lots of hypotheses about their motivations, many of which are considered fringe. One hypothesis claims they did it to stop Moro’s mediation between the Communist Party and the Christian Democrats in order to halt the CP’s rise to power so as to increase the BR’s influence within the Left. Other hypotheses include the idea that BR had been infiltrated and manipulated by the CIA or by Gladio, a clandestine paramilitary associated with NATO.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #RedBrigades #kidnapping #assassination #nato #cia #communist