Cossiga was in office at the time of the kidnapping and murder of the Christian Democratic leader Aldo Moro by the Marxist-Leninist extreme-left terrorist group Red Brigades . On the morning of 16 March 1978 , the day on which the new cabinet led by Giulio Andreotti was supposed to have undergone a confidence vote in the Italian Parliament , the car of Moro , former prime minister and then president of DC , was assaulted by a group of Red Brigades terrorists in Via Fani in Rome . Firing automatic weapons , the terrorists killed Moro 's bodyguards , ( two Carabinieri in Moro 's car and three policemen in the following car ) and kidnapped him
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Kidnapping of Aldo Moro
Francesco Cossiga