Diego Bianchi, creator and host of Propaganda Live, met the ambassador Luca Attanasio who died today, together with the escort carabiniere Vittorio Iacovacci and the driver, in the attack against the convoy of the UN mission (Monusco) in the eastern province of North- Kivu, Congo.
"I remember that meeting very well - he tells ANSA - in the embassy in Kishasa, proud to be able to offer us Italian dishes that he had taught the local chef to cook. He told me and the three young Italians of Doctors Without Borders the beauty and complexity of the Congo, the turbulent history, the enormous risks that were run every day. He had them all well in mind. We talked amiably, flaunting tranquility but the theme of security was strong in every speech ".
"I was impressed - he continues - how young he was and already full of experience in difficult places, he had also been in Nigeria previously. He had a clear map of the Italians in the country who are not few because, as he explained well, we were in the second after the war when there was an economic boom in the Congo, among European migrants in search of fortune ".
The two weeks spent in Congo in 2019 with Doctors Without Borders (which later became a reportage for Propaganda Live on La7) "were unforgettable, a very strong experience, of dangerous places, of roadblocks that you never know how they end up, of armed gangs around with machetes and machine guns, child soldiers with the risk of being killed on the agenda, something that even the ambassador told us several times, recommending that we be careful in particular in certain areas, one of which, the North Kivu is exactly where he met his death today. "