Alberto Franceschini was a founder and leading member of the Italian

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 left-wing militant organization, the Red Brigades

Red Brigades

The Red Brigades was a Marxist-Leninist terrorist organisation, based in Italy, which was responsible for numerous violent incidents, assassinations, and robberies during the so-called "Years of Lead"...

 (Brigate Rosse), along with Renato Curcio

Renato Curcio

Renato Curcio is the former leader of the Italian left-wing militant organization, the Red Brigades .-Background:...

, Margherita Cagol

Margherita Cagol

Margherita Cagol was a former leader of the Italian left-wing militant organization, the Red Brigades . She was married to Renato Curcio.-Life:...

 and Mario Moretti

Mario Moretti

Mario Moretti is an Italian former terrorist. A leading member of the Red Brigades in the late 1970s, he was one of the kidnappers of Aldo Moro, president of Italy's largest party, Democrazia Cristiana, and several times premier, in 1978; he later confessed to have been the one who killed the...

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The Red Brigades were formed in the second half of 1970 as a result of the merger of Renato Curcio's Proletarian Left and a radical student and worker group. They went completely underground and organized the Red Brigades and spent the next three years, from 1972 to 1975, engaging in a series of bombings and kidnappings of prominent figures. Franceschini was captured and imprisoned in 1974. He was released in 1992.