On March 20, 1994, in Mogadishu, a commando killed the Tg3 correspondent Ilaria Alpi and the operator Miran Hrovatin, who were in Somalia to document the war between factions and work on an investigation into arms and waste trafficking. toxic.
The President of the Chamber, Roberto Fico, remembers this, 27 years after the assassination.
"Despite the various investigations and the work of the Commission of Inquiry, this painful affair is still shrouded in a thick fog that countless misdirections, obscure complicities and guilty omissions have prevented from dissolving. Twenty-seven years later, therefore, a dutiful work of truth and justice ", writes Fico on facebook
THE POST OF FICO
"On March 20, 1994 in Mogadishu Ilaria Alpi and Miran Hrovatin paid with their lives for the passion and courage with which they interpreted the profession of investigative journalism. On the 27th anniversary of the brutal killing of these two martyrs of press freedom, I find it unacceptable that still today there are many journalists threatened and forced to live under guard for having exercised the right to report. Freedom of information is a value that every democracy must defend and protect ", declares the President of the
Senate Elisabetta Casellati on the
anniversary of the death of the two journalists.