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Star upsets Italy over Red 'hero'
French actress Fanny Ardant has drawn the wrath of Italian politicians
after calling the jailed founder of the Red Brigade guerrilla group
her "hero".
Ardant, 59, told Italian magazine "A" she admired Renato Cucio, adding
she "considered the Red Brigades phenomenon to be very moving and
passionate".
The president of Italy's Veneto region, Giancarlo Galan, asked Ardant
not to come to the Venice film festival.
The Red Brigade murdered Christian Democrat leader Aldo Moro in 1976.
Ardant is expected at the Venice festival as the lead member of the
cast in Italian film L'Ora di Punta.
Christian Democrat Luca Volonte was also unhappy with the actress's
comments.
"Nobody asks an actress to be intelligent or to know about the
innumerable tragedies but at least (she should show) respect for the
victims' families," he said.
The Marxist Red Brigade group, whose aim was to overthrow capitalist
Italy, attacked government and business targets in the 1970s and early
1980s.
It was largely disbanded in the 1980s but an offshoot of the group,
which calls itself the Red Brigades-Communist Combatant Party, carried
out an assassination of a government advisor in 2002.
A former member of the original Red Brigades was recently arrested in
Paris after 20 years on the run.
Marina Petrella, 53, was sentenced to life in absentia by a Rome court
in 1992 for murder and kidnapping.
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Another film star shows her political accumen ...
I'm suprised it wasn't Jane Fonda.
Star upsets Italy over Red 'hero'
French actress Fanny Ardant has drawn the wrath of Italian politicians
after calling the jailed founder of the Red Brigade guerrilla group
her "hero".
Ardant, 59, told Italian magazine "A" she admired Renato Cucio, adding
she "considered the Red Brigades phenomenon to be very moving and
passionate".
The president of Italy's Veneto region, Giancarlo Galan, asked Ardant
not to come to the Venice film festival.
The Red Brigade murdered Christian Democrat leader Aldo Moro in 1976.
Ardant is expected at the Venice festival as the lead member of the
cast in Italian film L'Ora di Punta.
Christian Democrat Luca Volonte was also unhappy with the actress's
comments.
"Nobody asks an actress to be intelligent or to know about the
innumerable tragedies but at least (she should show) respect for the
victims' families," he said.
The Marxist Red Brigade group, whose aim was to overthrow capitalist
Italy, attacked government and business targets in the 1970s and early
1980s.
It was largely disbanded in the 1980s but an offshoot of the group,
which calls itself the Red Brigades-Communist Combatant Party, carried
out an assassination of a government advisor in 2002.
A former member of the original Red Brigades was recently arrested in
Paris after 20 years on the run.
Marina Petrella, 53, was sentenced to life in absentia by a Rome court
in 1992 for murder and kidnapping.
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Another film star shows her political accumen ...
I'm suprised it wasn't Jane Fonda.