A forty-year long river of ink has tried to tell the kidnapping Moro, he four times Prime Minister, first secretary and then president of the Christian Democrats and with a brilliant academic and political career; without any blemish and with a clear will to put oneself at the service of the people with an almost disarming humility. Already active in the postwar period at the end of fascism with the liberation.
He had a great vision of politics, he really believed he could bring the most extreme factions of the Italian parties closer together, and perhaps that was one of the reasons why he was kidnapped and killed by the Red Brigades precisely in the hours in which the coveted solidarity government was taking shape. national, a heartfelt project woven with the then secretary of the PCI Enrico Berlinguer and the case of the “Moro kidnapping” was born.
The cultured and open-minded DC politician had a secular vision of politics, being the first to introduce the teaching of civic education in schools, and at the same time he lived a deep friendship with Paul VI, whom we remember overwhelmed, while he begged the BR to return Moro to his family, and then, after the bloody epilogue, celebrating his friend's funeral, he defines him as “very dear” and in that word there is the whole story of a sincere friendship.
The late leader of the DC, was therefore an observant Catholic, without ostentation, and without the redundancy expressed by many of his colleagues, who, while Moro turned his gaze to the crucifix, looked concupiscently at the plethora of penitents bent over the pews of the church, since they represented potential reservoirs of votes.
Moro went every day to mass, almost at dawn, in a modest way, and only after he began his working day, since he had a vision that was anything but clerical in the practice of worship, on the contrary he put into practice the teachings of his mother, which led him to a meager faith and at the service of others.
Undoubtedly the DC leader stood a notch above all his party comrades and was probably destined to become president of the Republic.
As a young man he had been president of the Catholic Graduates Movement, and remained in office until October 1946, but perhaps the fact that he was so crystalline and at the same time charismatic, to the point of overshadowing anyone around him, was clear in the XNUMXth Congress. of the Christian Democrats who will see him triumphant, so much so that he will be entrusted with the Party Secretariat, a position he will hold for a long time.
Another key moment was in 1963 when, re-elected to the Chamber, he is called to constitute the first organic center-left government, the embryo of that "historical compromise" in which he believed, which he never achieved and which had many detractors, since he did not everyone wanted dialogue and collaboration between the political forces.
Kidnapped and killed by the Red Brigades after fifty-five days of imprisonment in the cramped cell of Via Montalcini 8 in Rome, ironically, he was found very close to both the headquarters of the DC and that of the PCI on May 9th 78 and from there the case of the Moro kidnapping.
Those fifty-five days of the Moro kidnapping tore up the town and certainly even more the Moro family who did not feel at all the closeness of their father's and husband's personal party friends, such as Cossiga, to whom Maria Fida wrote in a letter: " tears do not wash the blood ”, and he never got an answer.
Today, after trials and convictions, almost everyone who was involved in the kidnapping and murder is free. Remains Alessio Casimirri, the only elusive fugitive from the BR group who participated in the ambush in Via Fani.