Renato Curcio
Renato Curcio (born September 23, 1941 in Monterotondo ) is an Italian ex-terrorist , author and former leader of the Red Brigades .
background
Curcio was born out of wedlock in a relationship between Renato Zampa (brother of film director Luigi Zampa ) and Yolanda Curcio in Monterotondo in the province of Rome . He and his mother, a housemaid, had a difficult time in his early years. Changing positions of the mother resulted in longer separations. In April 1945, Curcio's beloved Uncle Armando, an automobile worker at Fiat , was murdered by fascists in a robbery. Until the age of ten he lived in Torre Pellice in the province of Turin .
As a poor student, Curcio missed several college exams and had to retake them in his freshman year. He then took private lessons until he moved to Milan to live with his mother. There he enrolled at the Ferrini Institute in Albenga , where he became a model student.
When he graduated in 1962, he won a scholarship to study at the new and innovative Institute for Sociology at the University of Trento , where he was captivated by existentialist philosophy. He is said to have listened to the lectures of the young Romano Prodi , who was assistant to Professor Beniamino Andreatta at the time, with particular interest . In the mid-1960s he slipped into radical politics and Marxism as a side effect of his preoccupation with existentialism and himself. By the late 1960s he had become a staunch revolutionary and Marxist theorist.
According to Alessandro Silj , three political incidents turned him from radical to activist: two bloody demonstrations in Trento and a police massacre of farmers in 1968. Between 1967 and 1969 Curcio had also joined two Marxist groups at the university, including the publication Lavoro Politico (political work).
Bitter about his expulsion from the radical Red Line faction of Lavoro Politico in August 1969, Curcio decided to leave Trento and to forego the academic degree, even though he had already passed all final exams. Before moving to Milan, Curcio married Cagol , a radical Trento sociologist , daughter of a wealthy Trento merchant, in a Catholic ceremony in the Church of San Romedio in Val di Non Margherita (Mara) .
In Milan, Curcio became an absolute militant. The Red Brigades were formed in the second half of 1970 as a result of an alliance between Curcio's "proletarian left" and a radical student and worker group. When it was founded, Curcio referred to the Brazilian revolutionary Marcelo de Andrade , who had assured: “Every proletarian alternative to the rulers must - from beginning to end - be politico-military, in the sense that the armed struggle is the ideal route to the class struggle . ”After he was arrested in February 1971 for occupying an empty house, Curcio and his highly militant colleagues on the proletarian left went underground for good and organized the Red Brigades. They spent the next three years, from 1972 to 1975, in a series of bombings and the kidnapping of celebrities. Curcio was captured in Pinerolo on September 8, 1974, together with the co-founder of the Brigate Rosse Alberto Franceschini , but was freed from prison by Margherita five months later in a spectacular action. Three weeks after escaping from prison, Margherita was killed in a shooting with Carabinieri . Curcio was arrested again in January 1976 and sentenced to prison.
In April 1993 he got a daytime permit to go outdoors and worked as a writer until he was finally released in 1998.
To date, Curcio has shown no remorse for his activities with the Red Brigades.
In August 2007, the French actress Fanny Ardant expressed her “admiration” for the leader of the Red Brigades as a “hero”. She added that she “saw the phenomenon of the Red Brigades as very moving and passionate”. For her comments, the actress was sued in an Italian court by Piero Mazzola, the son of an Italian police officer who was murdered by the Red Brigades.
Fonts
- Renato Curcio: With an open eye. On the history of the Red Brigades. A conversation with Mario Scialoja. ID-Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-89408-068-X . ( Full text online ; PDF; 1.5 MB)
- Renato Curcio: The Virtual Realm - The Colonization of Fantasy and Social Control . bahoe books , Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-903022-52-2
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ La Repubblica of May 28, 2005, p. 38.
- ↑ Article on Curcio. In: Archivio Corriere della Sera. Retrieved January 9, 2020 .
- ↑ French star below for hero comment
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Curcio, Renato |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian ex-terrorist, author and former leader of the Red Brigades |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 23, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Monterotondo |