(ANSA) - ROME, AUGUST 06 - A minute of silence, after applause: the Senate Chamber wanted to remember, at the opening of the session, Sergio Zavoli, who died on Tuesday evening at the age of 96.
"He was a journalist and writer of incredible talent and brilliant intelligence, one of the most lively and important storytellers in our history," said the president, Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati, who stressed "the great personal displeasure, of all the senators and the administration for not being able to set up, because of the strict sanitary security measures, the funeral home here in the Senate to pay him his last farewell ".
The Minister of Culture Dario Franceschini remembered Zavoli as "a giant, human, professional and political", while the President of Rai Supervision, Alberto Barachini, asked - on behalf of all the representatives of the groups of the chamber - to dedicate to the journalist who disappeared the classroom in which the commission meets. Request immediately accepted with favor by Casellati. (HANDLE).
A minute of silence in the Senate Chamber for Zavoli
2020-08-06T08:49:38.109Z
A minute of silence, then the applause: the Senate Hall wanted to remember Sergio Zavoli, who died on Tuesday evening at the age of 96, at the opening session. (HANDLE)
