Love and Lead – how paparazzi dealt truth and fiction in terror-stricken Rome

By Tom Seymour

It was early on the morning of 16 March 1978. Italy’s former Prime Minister, was sitting in the back of a blue Fiat, his driver inching through the labyrinthine streets of rush-hour Rome. Moro was heading to the Italian Parliament, where he was due to chair a vote for a new government that might, for the first time, make the Italian Communist Party a party of government – the first step in what he had called “the historic compromise” between Parliamentary Social Democracy and Euro-Communism.

Oreste Leonardi, a high-ranking carabiniere and his chief bodyguard, sat beside him; following his Fiat was …read more

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