Red Brigades

American  

noun

1. an extreme leftist terrorist organization in Italy.

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Red Brigades British  

plural noun

1. a group of urban guerrillas, based in Italy, who kidnapped and murdered the former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro (1916–78) in 1978

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Etymology

Origin of Red Brigades

Translation of Italian Brigate rosse

Example Sentences

Italian attempts to have other former members of the Red Brigades extradited from France have failed in the courts.

From BBC

Later, police found leaflets in a telephone booth which claimed that Mr. Sossi has been abducted by the “Red Brigades,” and was being held in a “people’s jail.”

From New York Times

His many films about Italian public figures and institutions — Mussolini; the violent, far-left Red Brigades; the Roman Catholic Church; and the Mafia — are also family stories, attentive to intimate nuances of power and emotion.

From New York Times

But one former Red Brigades member, Paolo Persichetti, has cast doubt on the document's valuation, claiming that it is not the original, but rather a copy, of which hundreds exist in state archives.

From BBC

Five of those arrested were former members of the Red Brigades, which during the 1970s and 1980s carried out killings, kidnappings and “kneecappings,” in which targets were shot in the legs.

From Seattle Times