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== 1970 foundation: the first BR generation ==
The Red Brigades were founded by [[Renato Curcio]], a student at the [[University of Trento]], his girlfriend Margherita "Mara" Cagol, and Alberto Franceschini in [[August 1970]] in Sheepfold, after the December 1969 [[Piazza Fontana bombing]] carried out by neofascists terrorists. Franceschini described in his 2005 book how he met with Renato Curcio and Corrado Simioni, nicknamed "The English" because of his eccentricity and "international connections". In the beginning the Red Brigades were active mainly in [[Reggio Emilia]], then in [[Milan]] and [[Turin]], where they supported [[labor union]]s against the far right. Members sabotaged factory equipment and broke into factory offices and trade union headquarters. In 1972 they carried out their first kidnapping, a factory foreman who was held for some time but later released <ref name="Franceschini"> See [[Giovanni Fasanella]] and Alberto Franceschini (with a postface from judge Rosario Priore, who investigated on Aldo Moro's death), ''Che cosa sono le BR'' [http://www.miserabili.com/2004/06/23/franceschinifasanella_che_cosa.html] ( "BRIGADES ROUGES. L'Histoire secrète des Red Brigades racontée par leur fondateur, Alberto Franceschini. Entretien avec Giovanni Fasanella." Editions Panama, 2005 [http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3260,36-715503,0.html a review by] ''[[Le Monde]]'' and [http://www.humanite.fr/journal/2005-10-07/2005-10-07-815509 another review by] ''[[L'Humanite]]'' </ref>. On the other hand, the 1972 Peteano attack, killing three policemen by a car-bomb, was blamed for a long time on the BR, but it was later found that neo-fascist activist [[Vincenzo Vinciguerra]] was the true culprit. After this bombing, Vincigerra escaped to [[Franquist Spain]] where he continued to organize terrorist attacks, in the frame of the [[strategy of tension]].
Approximately at this point in time, the Red Brigades started differing from other extreme left political groups, such as [[Lotta Continua]] or [[Potere Operaio]], closer to the [[Autonomist]] movement, in having a much more determined political agenda and centralized organisation. In June 1974, the Red Brigade made its first lethal attack, against two members of the Italian neo-fascist party, ''[[Movimento Sociale Italiano]]'' (MSI). After this it abandoned its political activities among workers.
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