On this day - 9 May

Aldo Moro served 5 terms as prime minister of Italy. He was part of the centre-left political movement and one of the longest serving prime ministers of Italy in the post world war period.

He was kidnapped in March of 1978 by a group known as the Red Brigades. Red Brigades was a far-left militant organization. Thousands of police officers were mobilised to find Aldo Moro and searched tens of thousands of properties looking for him. His captors offered an exchange, his life for the release of a number of prisoners. The government took the line that no terrorist demands would be met. As it was clear that they would not get their demands, the Red Brigades organised a summary trial where they found Moro guilty and sentenced him to death. On May 9th 1978 they placed him in a car and shot him ten times. His body was found left in the boot of a car.