D’Alfonso murder: Curcio to pm, I had no role as Chief Br
“The role of leader attributed to me is a media image that does not correspond to the reality of the facts.” This is what the former exponent of the Red Brigades, Renato Curcio, put in the minutes when he was questioned on 20 February 2023 as part of the Turin investigation in which he is under investigation for the murder of the Carabinieri officer Giovanni D’Alfonso which occurred on 5 June 1975 near Cascina Spiotta in the province of Alessandria. In the firefight, following the liberation of the entrepreneur Vallarino Gancia, Mara Cagol, Curcio’s companion and with him among the founders of the Red Brigades, also died. The investigators listen to him in particular on the memorial seized by the carabinieri in the hideout in via Maderno, in Milan on 18 January 1976, the day of the arrest of Curcio himself and Nadia Mantovani.
Curcio says “contrary to what was stated to the journalist Mario Scialoja in the book-interview ‘A face open’ that he no longer held positions in the Red Brigade board after his escape from the Monferrato prison, underlining that the role of leader was a media invention” .
“After the escape, I therefore remained out of the organizational life – these are Curcio’s words in the report contained in the investigation documents seen by AGI – of the Turin column, where I had been arrested and where my wife played the role of column leader “. In this interrogation Curcio is also asked about the organization of the Gancia kidnapping at the origin of the police raid on Spiotta to free him. “As you know at the time the columns had very broad operational autonomy, they decided what to do and whoever proposed an action which was accepted then implemented it. This theory derives from the idea of urban clandestineness of the revolutionary struggle typical of South America “.
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