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May 10, 2021On the kidnapping and killing of Aldo Moro "the truth is still to be sought". Walter Veltroni says this in an interview with the newspaper
la Repubblica
, 43 years after the discovery of the lifeless body of the then secretary of the Christian Democrats. "I very much appreciated the words of Mario Calabresi, son of the commissioner killed in Milan in 1972. The words in which he does not invoke jail for the guilty but asks for truth make me think of the South African experience after apartheid: truth in exchange for clemency ", observes the former Secretary of the Democratic Party.
"I am not saying that Moro was not sought. But it is clear that Moro who was free was more afraid than Moro dead. Afterwards, the State negotiated for Cirillo, even using the Camorra. Minister Cossiga, at the Viminale, had all P2 men around him. I don't think at the time there was a perception of all those centers of occult power, a state that had the rotten inside ", explains Veltroni:" There was the cold war. There was the interest that Italy would remain an unstable country or he moved towards an authoritarian turn. This is why Moro and Berlinguer were frightening ".
And he adds: "Moro was killed by the Red Brigades, but someone worked to ensure that this was the outcome. For 55 days a negotiation is opened and it is clear that various subjects enter that space. And those subjects are in the first place the two great powers which both had the prospect of national solidarity and historical compromise in their sights. The US because it did not want the PCI in government and the USSR because it did not want Berlinguer's line of detachment from the Soviet bloc to be successful. Then there is also the P2, that lump of dark power, "he concludes.