Rome, 12 February (LaPresse) – "Why did I mention the Red Brigades? While history never repeats itself in exactly the same way, it does repeat itself in similar ways. I remember very well that before the Red Brigades exploded in the most bloody terms, there were these forms of street violence that were very, very agitated, and then eventually even armed. Older people will remember the image of a person pointing a gun at the police. And do you know how the left defined those people at the time? Comrades who are mistaken and self-styled Red Brigades'. So said Justice Minister Carlo Nordio during question time in the Senate. “I have a good memory and, since I was a protagonist in that affair at the time,” he added, 'I was escorted and armed, and there were about thirty of us magistrates in Italy. So you will allow me to say that I know something about this phenomenon, let's say. 'I have a good memory and, since I was a protagonist in that affair at the time, I repeat, I know these things, go and look them up, if you don't remember them, it's not my fault, it's yours. Those situations of aggression towards the police, which at the time were not dealt with with the necessary energy,‘ he concludes, ’today risk, or would risk, repeating themselves and, in the absence of adequate intervention, could lead to phenomena that are not identical but similar to those that have troubled our democracy with years and years of bloodshed."