Italy on Thursday marked the 41st
anniversary of the discovery of Christian Democrat statesman
Aldo Moro and Sicilian anti-mafia DJ Peppino Impastato's bodies
in Rome and Sicily.
President Sergio Mattarella laid a wreath in Via Caetani,
where Moro's bullet-riddled body was found in the trunk of a car
after his assassination by Red Brigades (BR) militants.
Free and Equal (LeU) Senator Pietro Grasso, the former
national anti-mafia prosecutor, said Impastato's story was "one
of courage that inspires the young".
Democratic Party (PD) Senator Ernesto Magorno said "it is our
duty to recall Moro and Impastato".
Moro, architect of the 'historic compromise' with the Italian
Communist party (PCI) was killed after 55 days in captivity by
the BR.
Impastato was killed after a radio campaign in which he
ridiculed Cosa Nostra boss Gaetano Badalamenti in their native
town of Cinisi near Palermo.
Both murders have spawned books and films including Msrco
Bellocchio's Estern Notte on Moro's kidnapping and death and
Marco Tullio Giordana's One Hundred Steps, the distance between
Impastato and Badalamenti's houses.
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