Italy's magistrates school on
Wednesday cancelled a meeting scheduled during a training course
for judges with former Red Brigades terrorist Adriana Faranda.
A statement said the meeting would have been "inopportune".
The decision to invite Faranda to attend a course on
restorative justice at the headquarters of the school for the
judiciary sparked controversy on Tuesday, with some magistrates
defending the initiative and others defining it "absurd".
Alessandra Galli, daughter of the Judge Guido Galli who was
assassinated by Prima Linea left-wing extremists in Milan in
1980, said she was "disconcerted" by the invitation.
"In an institutional headquarters such as this dialogue
with someone who killed to subvert the State and the
Constitution - to which we magistrates have sworn loyalty - is
unacceptable," she said.
Faranda was a militant of the left-wing Red Brigades in the
second half of the 1970s and was involved in the kidnapping and
murder of Christian Democrat leader and former prime minister
Aldo Moro in Rome in 1978.
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