The controversy on social media floated after the Bertolami Fine Arts auction house in Rome put up for sale, included in lot number 43 of the “Autographs & Memorabilia” catalog, a copy of the mimeographed flyer from the Red Brigades announcing the kidnapping of Aldo Moro on March 16, 1978. The flyer, which started from an auction starting at 700 euros, is already quoted at 7,000 euros, and in all likelihood the figure is destined to rise further, given that the auction will end on January 18.
This is the first part of the text accompanying the auction sale of the flyer: «Original flyer distributed the day after the kidnapping of Aldo Moro, by the Red Brigades. This was the first of a series of press releases that followed until the epilogue with the final solution of the Moro affair. Dramatic propaganda text, written and made available (sic, ed) to journalistic organizations to divulge the reasons for the kidnapping, and the political reasons for the class struggle that pushed the Red Brigade revolution in the 1970s to be so violent ».
The leaflet was the first of a series of nine communications from the Red Brigades, up to the assassination of Moro on May 9, 1978.
In addition to the obvious controversy on social media about the opportunity to auction a historical document of this importance, witness to a tragedy still alive in the conscience of many, the auction also attracted the attention of the Ministry of Culture led by Minister Dario Franceschini, who communicated that he had ordered a check on the mimeograph of the “Communiqué n.1” of the BR, «in order to verify its peculiarity and interest. In the “Moro Uno” dossier of the Rome Court of Assizes, studied and digitized by the DG Archives itself as part of the “Progetto Moro”, there are already 41 copies of the press release. Some are incomplete and not all are in the same state of conservation.
