Those were the years of the death of Mao Tse-tung and of Paul VI, of the Camp David agreements between Egypt and Israel. Margaret Thatcher became prime minister in London and the first free elections were held in Spain after the fall of Franco's dictatorship. In Iran the Shah was deposed. Punk fashion was born in the musical world and Sony launched the first Walkman on the market.
It was the late seventies. The years that today's young people, in their twenties and thirties, have only heard about from their parents and grandparents. Italy lived the drama and terror of the so-called years of lead, on which rivers of words, analyzes and stories were written; and which dozens of films and documentaries, television programs and conferences and debates have dealt with.
The story of the kidnapping and killing of Aldo Moro marked the most dramatic moment of that era, it also symbolically characterized those years. It is our history, by now, which like all the great events of the past remains shrouded in some mysteries, real or presumed, on which it will probably never be fully shed and on which historians will continue to grapple.
Precisely coinciding with the date of the kidnapping of Aldo Moro, which took place on 16 March 1978, the Chamber is preparing to vote on the establishment of a new bicameral parliamentary commission of inquiry into his kidnapping and his death. 36 years after those terrible events, after two similar parliamentary commissions of inquiry had already been held, one at the beginning of the 80s, which also included Leonardo Sciascia, the other at the end of that decade; after several years of work by the Parliaments of the eighth and tenth legislature, the idea of a new commission of inquiry now appears in this seventeenth legislature, with the ambition - reads the report illustrating the initiative - "to write the last word by ascertaining the historical truth of the event, but also to catch up with the delay and the omissions of the State on the whole affair”.
A series of illustrious deputies from almost all parliamentary groups believes in the possibility of clarifying all the mysteries of the Moro case today: the bill, signed by Giuseppe Fioroni of the Democratic Party, is also signed by Bersani and Bindi; by Brunetta and Fitto, for Forza Italia; by Migliore, from Sel, and Giorgia Meloni, from Fratelli d'Italia; there is also Gianluca Pini from the League; and then Cesa, Dellai and dozens of other deputies. All agree to devote time and resources of the Chamber and Senate "to accompany this inexhaustible thirst for truth, to try to shed light on new aspects".
And while Italy remains bogged down waiting for the much-desired constitutional and institutional reforms, the modernization of legislation on the economy, labor and taxation, regulatory simplifications and public administration, interventions for the functioning of justice, the relaunching of infrastructure, the abolition of provinces and the reduction of the cost of politics; while the country awaits a new driving force from the Government and Parliament; it seems that a group of senators is already thinking about a commission of inquiry into the conspiracy and the killing of Caius Julius Caesar, to finally understand if Brutus acted on his own initiative or if he was at the service of an international conspiracy hatched in Spain by the sons of Pompey the Great, with the support of the secret services of Cleopatra, queen of Egypt.
It is negotiating to decide who will be part of this innovative commission of inquiry and who will be its president, vice president and secretary.
