Friday,
August 24, 2007
"L'Ora di
Punta" Star Praise of Red Brigade Founder Creates Furor in
The
ANNOTICO Report
French
actress Fanny Ardant stars in the Italian Film "L'Ora di
Punta", that is to be introduced at the Venice Film
Festival,
told Italian magazine "A" that she admired Renato Curcio, the jailed founder of the Red Brigade guerrilla group
causing a furor in
The
Brigate Rosse 's stated goal was a "concentrated
strike against the heart of the State, because the state is an imperialist
collection of multinational corporations". It is credited with
14,000 acts of violence, many as kidnappings of Tycoons, Politicians, and
Judges.
The
Red Brigade's
most famous act was the kidnapping and killing of the Italian Prime Minister
Aldo Moro.
Many suggest that
Moro's murder could have been orchestrated by the Italian Masonic lodge, Propaganda
Due (also known as P2), or that the Red Brigades (BR), was infiltrated by US
intelligence (CIA), or The "Gladio
network", directed by NATO, which were adamantly opposed to Moro's
intentions to admit the Communists into the Italian government of
national unity, the fear on the US side being that Italy thereafter might
withdraw from NATO and that the U.S. would have then lost access to vital
Mediterranean ports.
Star
Upsets
BBC News
Friday, August 24, 2007
French
actress Fanny Ardant has drawn the wrath of Italian
politicians
after calling the jailed founder of the Red Brigade guerrilla group
her "hero".
Ardant, 59, told Italian
magazine "A" she admired Renato Curcio,
adding she "considered the Red Brigades phenomenon to be very moving and
passionate".
The president of
The Red Brigades
murdered Christian Democrat leader Aldo Moro in 1976.
Ardant is expected at the
Christian
Democrat Luca Volonte was also unhappy with the
actress's comments.
"Nobody asks
an actress to be intelligent or to know about the innumerable tragedies but at
least (she should show) respect for the victims' families," he said.
The Marxist Red
Brigades group, whose aim was to overthrow capitalist
It was largely
disbanded in the 1980s but an offshoot of the group, which calls itself the Red
Brigades-Communist Combatant Party, carried out an assassination of a
government advisor in 2002.
A former member
of the original Red Brigades was recently arrested in
Marina Petrella, 53, was sentenced to life in absentia by a
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