How did the Years of Lead come to an end?

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New laws offering reduced sentences to cooperating terrorists and leniency to penitent terrorists helped weaken militant networks, along with a shift in public opinion against political violence, ended the Years of Lead. The political landscape began shifting as well. Far-left and far-right groups lost popular support, and internal divisions weakened their organizations. By the early 1990s political sabotage, bombings, and assassinations had largely ceased.