Margherita Cagol

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Margherita (Mara) Cagol (born April 8, 1945 in Sardagna , † June 5, 1975 in Melazzo ) was an Italian left-wing extremist terrorist and a senior member of the Red Brigades .

Life

Cagol was born into a Catholic-Conservative middle-class family in Sardagna in Trentino in northern Italy. Her mother worked in a pharmacy and her father owned a perfumery. In 1964, she completed her training as an accountant and began studying sociology at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Trento . She became part of the student movement and met her future accomplice and co-leader of the Red Brigades, Renato Curcio , while working on the editorial staff of the publication Lavoro Politico (Political Work). She graduated in 1969 and married Renato Curcio. The couple moved to Milan , where Cagol wanted to continue studying sociology for two years on a scholarship.

In the second half of 1970, as a result of an alliance between Curcio's proletarian left and a radical student and workers group, the Red Brigades were formed. After Renato Curcio was arrested in February 1971 for occupying an empty house, Curcio, Cargol and other militant supporters of the proletarian left went underground and organized the Red Brigades. Cagol was involved in the activities of the Red Brigades from 1972 to 1975. Curcio and Alberto Franceschini were arrested on September 8, 1974 in Pinerolo. On February 18, 1975, a squad led by Mara Cagol released Renato Curcio and Alberto Franceschini from Casale Monferrato prison .

On June 5, 1975, members of the Red Brigades kidnapped the industrialist Vallarino Gancia . This is how the group tried to make money. Cagol and another terrorist held the man in a previously acquired country farm, the Spiotta farm. When the Carabinieri tried to search the homestead, there was a shooting and grenade throwing. Cagol and a police officer were killed, the other terrorist escaped.

The German Red Army faction took up the name Cagol and claimed responsibility for the attack on Karl Heinz Beckurts by a commando Mara Cagol .

literature

  • Piero Agostini: Mara Cagol - Una donna nelle prime Brigate Rosse . 163 pages. Marsilio Editori, Venice 1980.

Individual evidence

  1. a b Biografia di Mara Cagol on cinquantamila.corriere.it of July 27, 2011
  2. Alexandra Locher: Leaden years. Left-wing terrorism in media negotiation processes in Italy 1970–1982. LIT Verlag 2013, ISBN 3-643-80159-9
  3. Alexander Straßner : The third generation of the "Red Army Fraction": emergence, structure, functional logic and disintegration of a terrorist organization . Westdeutscher Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-322-91007-3 , p. 311 f.