(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 16 - A past tolerance of protests led to the terrorism that killed Aldo Moro, Farm Minister Francesco Lollobrigida said on the 46th anniversary of the kidnapping of the Christian Democrat leader and the murder of his five police escorts on March 16, 1978, and after President Sergio Mattarella phoned La Repubblica editor-in-chief Maurizio Molinari to express his solidarity after a protest by students stopped the journalist from taking part in a debate at the Federico II University in Naples over alleged pro-Israeli bias.
    Molinari has come under fire for allegedly being too sympathetic with Israel after it waged war on Hamas following the October 7 massacres.
    "The tolerance of the past towards these episodes then led to terrorism and its reinforcement up to the episode of Aldo Moro who, with his sacrifice, created such a widespread democratic alarm that it allowed us to defeat that brutal phenomenon that is subversion and terrorism", said Lollobrigida in Matelica on the sidelines of the inauguration of an exhibition dedicated to the Marche town's most famous son, late Eni founder Enrico Mattei. (ANSA).