Rome. On the steps of the Sapienza University of Rome’s Political Sciences faculty, the Red Brigades assassinated Professor Bachelet with eight gunshots, the last one to the head. His assistant, Rosy Bindi, was with him. Bachelet was a gentle Catholic, always seeking dialogue, even with armed subversion. He was vice-president of the CSM, effectively the head of the Italian judiciary, yet he traveled without an escort. Forty years later, the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, summarized the reasons for his killing by the Red Brigades: “because he embodied the most authentic meaning of our Republic: a profound sense of community and state.”
