301:. The police investigation of the crime resulted in the indictment of two left-wing militants known to the police, one of whom was Alvaro Lojacono. In the first trial, Lojacono was acquitted for lack of evidence, but, on appeal in 1980, he was found guilty and sentenced to 16 years in prison. He appealed the sentence to Italy's
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criminal court sentenced
Locajono to life imprisonment for the 1978 murder of the Italian judge Girolamo Tartaglione, a sentence subsequently reduced to 17 years of imprisonment. A legal process against him for his participation in the assassination of Aldo Moro was closed due to "lack of evidence,"
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in 1981, following, as he claimed many years later, the advice of his father who had been a supporter and friend of
Algerian independence movement militants, while also asserting that he was indirectly helped by the Italian Communist Party. The latter assertion was firmly rejected by the Communist
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Throughout the trial, there were continuous, severe, and violent clashes around the court area and elsewhere in the streets of Rome between right-wing and left-wing radicals. In a riot outside the MSI headquarters in
Ottaviano street, shots were fired killing the Greek medical student and
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Lojacono as being present on 16 March 1978 in Fani street, at the site of the Red Brigades attack against the Moro column of cars, firing at Moro's guards and taking the politician in a Brigades hiding place.
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In 1981, he went underground and became a wanted man. While
Lojacono was in hiding, the judiciary investigation uncovered additional aspects of his past. Lojacono had become, since 1977, a member of the "Roman column" of the
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Fabrizio Panzieri. He was also sentenced to sixteen years imprisonment but was set free pending his appeal and vanished. He remains a fugitive with unknown whereabouts. See Paoletti (2019).
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undersecretary Mario Mattei and his family on
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