Maurice Olivari was one of the channel's flagship journalists in the years 1990-2000. From 1991 and for more than 20 years, he brought the upheavals of daily life in Italy and the Vatican to the French people's attention.
TF1 salutes "an emblematic face and voice of journalism", recalling that "passing through Washington, Maurice Olivari will remain above all associated with the city of Rome’s news brilliantly.” “The right word, the finesse of an analysis or the strength of a sequence shot. From the East at war to complicated Italy, he was a reference who became a colleague whom I was never able to speak on familiar terms”