The Moro Affair ASCII Coffee Cup Art by LoonyRocket. On 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. In The Moro Affair, Leonardo Sciascia, a master of detective fiction, untangles the real life events of these crucial weeks and provides a unique insight into the dangerous world of Italian politics in the 1970s.