Biography of Renato Curcio

A five-pointed star,

September 23, 1941
Renato Curcio was born in Monterotondo (Rome) on September 23, 1941. Born from an affair between his mother Yolanda Curcio, young girl pugliese moved to Rome, and Renato Zampa, brother of the well-known film director Luigi Zampa. Lived a difficult childhood because of precarious jobs. Was soon marked by the death of his uncle Armando, worker at Fiat, killed in 1945 by a reprisal of the RSI (Repubblica Sociale Italiana, known popularly as the Republic of Salò, the fascist government established name in Italian territory occupied by the Nazis, and founded by Mussolini in 1943). Renato spent his teenage years in Milan and Houses, and attended Catholic militancy. He graduated from the Galileo Galilei Institute Campochiesa, fraction of Albenga. In 1962 he moved to Trento and enrolled in the Historic Faculty of sociology, from which a few years later (1968) student mobilizations will leave notes. Trent knows Margaret Mara Cagol, who would become his wife. In 1967 founded the study group "University": the group performs an activity of analysis and theoretical training through study and reading of texts ignored by college classes. Among the authors include Che Guevara, Mao Zedong, Herbert Marcuse, Cabral, Padgett.
In these years mature their "ideological belief" within the academic struggles, joining some small groups of the extreme left. For a time he shares his home with Mauro Rostagno, left character, intelligent and charismatic, he is also nicknamed the "Who" of Trento. Will complete all examinations, then for political choice, decides not to graduate. Curcio, joined the Marxist-Leninist-inspired magazine "political work", he was able to express opinions away from armed struggle. The rethinking on the subject of violence comes after (and probably also caused by) the clashes of Avola of December 2, 1968: on this occasion the police fired on and killed two farm workers and continuing to shoot nonstop for 25 minutes. At the beginning of November 1969 in any full student protest: Curcio participates in the now famous Chiavari Conference at hotel Stella Maris. Here are the foundations for the start of the armed struggle in Italy, he worked on a nucleus of Metropolitan Milan politician belonging to the Collective. The next year they founded the Brigades: you may of 1970 when in the suburb of Lorenteggio, to Milan, the first flyers with the five-pointed star.
Curcio is driving the BR with his wife Mara and Alberto Franceschini. The first subversive action takes place on September 17, 1970, when the Group blows up the garage by Giuseppe Leoni, an Executive at the company SIT Siemens. Sit Siemens, Pirelli, Alfa Romeo is the first industries where the armed party takes office. In 1974 Curcio is stopped. Thanks to an action led by Mara, Curcio he escaped in February 1975. In the summer of the same year his wife died during a shootout with law enforcement. Renato Curcio shuts down again in early 1976 (thanks to the infiltration within the BR of Silvano Girotto, then passed into history as "Frate Mitra").
With the death of Mara and the imprisonment of the leaders Curcio and Feng, the direction of movement was handed over to representatives of the so-called "military wing" led by Mario Moretti who will lead the group in the sad season of murders and injuries that Italy will know from the second half of the 70 's. Although Curcio had never theorized violence as bloodshed, never repented of his choices. Remained in jail since 1976 until 7 April 1993, today's editorial director in the cooperative "sensitive to the leaves", for which he has written books on the topic of social insecurity ("flexible", "the consumer worked" and "the company").
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