A past tolerance of protests led to
the terrorism that killed Aldo Moro, Farm Minister Francesco
Lollobrigida said on the 46th anniversary of the kidnapping of
the Christian Democrat leader and the murder of his five police
escorts on March 16, 1978, and after President Sergio Mattarella
phoned La Repubblica editor-in-chief Maurizio Molinari to
express his solidarity after a protest by students stopped the
journalist from taking part in a debate at the Federico II
University in Naples over alleged pro-Israeli bias.
Molinari has come under fire for allegedly being too sympathetic
with Israel after it waged war on Hamas following the October 7
massacres.
"The tolerance of the past towards these episodes then led to
terrorism and its reinforcement up to the episode of Aldo Moro
who, with his sacrifice, created such a widespread democratic
alarm that it allowed us to defeat that brutal phenomenon that
is subversion and terrorism", said Lollobrigida in Matelica on
the sidelines of the inauguration of an exhibition dedicated to
the Marche town's most famous son, late Eni founder Enrico
Mattei.
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