The Moro AffairOn 16 March 1978, Aldo Moro, former Italian Prime Minister, was ambushed in Rome. Within three minutes, the gang killed all five members of his escort and bundled Moro into one of three getaway cars. An hour later, the Red Brigades announced that Moro was in their hands; on 18 March, they said he would be tried in a 'people's court of justice'. Seven weeks later, Moro's body was discovered in the boot of a Renault parked in the crowded centre of Rome.