Moro, the historian Clementi: “Persichetti one of the best scholars of the case ‘

Paolo Persichetti “is one of the best, if not the best, scholar of the Moro case”. And “it matters little to me that he is a missing teacher in France due to his extradition and that he spent years in prison”: “he remains among the best researchers I have ever met in what, unfortunately, can now be defined as a long career”. Strenuously defending the research work of the former Br Paolo Perischetti, investigated in Rome for subversive association with the purpose of terrorism and aiding and abetting in relation to the disclosure of confidential material by the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry into the kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro is Marco Clementi, researcher of Modern History at Unical and author with Persichetti and Elisa Santalena of “Red Brigades. From factories to the ‘spring campaign'” (DeriveApprodi). Precisely in relation to that book, Clementi recalls how Persichetti had “done an excellent job in the State Archives, in Rome, Eur district, where an enormous amount of documentation from the PS, the carabinieri, the services had been deposited (directives Prodi and Renzi ), spending weeks reading, ordering and creating his own inventory of papers that he was the first scholar in Italy to see “. Persichetti, says Clementi in an article published on the Insorgenze.net blog, is “a seeker of answers to historically founded questions and would be able to teach an excellent course on the Sixties and Seventies in any university in the world”. “Someone spoke, for the search of his house on June 8, 2021, of an attack on historical research”, but, Clementi emphasizes, the question “concerns Dr. Persichetti’s own research” and “not anyone else’s” . “In his papers and computers, investigators will find solid, well-structured, clear historiographical answers”. According to the historian, therefore, “the time has come for Dr. Persichetti to be recognized not as an ex, but for what he is: an excellent historian, the best on the Moro case and the history of the Br. For detachment”.