This was Aldo Moro.

On 16 March 1978, Moro was kidnapped by militant members of the Red Brigades, a left-wing terrorist group formed in 1970 with the purpose of overthrowing capitalist Italy through violence. He was kidnapped at gunpoint from a car whilst being driven to a session of the house of representatives, and his five bodyguards were killed.

The Red Brigades eanted to exchange Moro's life for the freedom of 13 Red imprisoned Red Brigades terrorists. The government refused, not willing to be blackmailed in this way.

Moro was executed at gunpoint around 9 May 1978, and his body found in the boot of a car in Via Caetani in central Rome.

Most of the significant Red Brigades leaders were captured and imprisoned by the mid-1980s.