Barbara Balzerani

Barbara Balzerani (16 January 1949 – 4 March 2024) was an Italian terrorist as member of Red Brigades.

[1] In the 1970s Balzerani became a leader of the Red Brigades (Italian Brigate Rosse, or BR, which she had joined in 1975) in Rome.

After the arrest of BR's national leader Mario Moretti in 1981, she unsuccessfully tried to handle the split in the organization, becoming a leader of the "Brigate Rosse - Partito Comunista Combattente", while Giovanni Senzani led the other faction, the "BR - Partito Guerriglia".

During the detention of Aldo Moro, she occupied, together with Moretti, the BR base in Via Gradoli in Rome.

The base was discovered due to a water leak, allegedly caused by a tap left open - although the circumstances of its discovery by Italian police forces were never totally made clear.