30 years have passed since 28 January 1994, the day on which Marco Luchetta, Alessandro Sasa Ota and Dario D’Angelo died, the three journalists from the Rai office in Trieste killed in Eastern Mostar, Bosnia, by a grenade while collecting images for a report about nameless children.
Today the three professionals were remembered at the Miela theater in Trieste, as part of a series of initiatives promoted by the Luchetta Ota D’Angelo Hrovatin foundation. Among these, the Balkan Route award, for journalists who have carried out in-depth studies on the topic of migrants.
Remembering Ota, Luchetta and D’Angelo “is a gesture of responsibility and respect”, the president of Rai, Marinella Soldi, said in a video message. “The memory of this day is all the more painful in light of the conflicts which today destabilize international balances”. “To honor their memory we want to remember them by supporting the increasingly crucial values of transparency and justice for verified and free information.” “Our thanks – she concluded – goes to all the journalists and operators who risk their lives every day to bring our citizens news that arrives from critical territories or from wars”.
Family members and colleagues also remembered the three killed professionals, with video contributions or testimonies on stage. “Journalists continue to die in places of war”, stated the president of the Journalists’ Association, Carlo Bartoli: they are “uncomfortable witnesses”, who “are scary” and “the Press bib has perhaps become a privileged target”.
“One always thinks that people understand and the world can change – observed the president of the Luchetta Ota D’Angelo Hrovatin foundation, Daniela Luchetta – at the end of the 80s I deluded myself that the world had changed, that it had understood it was impossible always living in war. In reality, only a few years later we encountered Marco’s death and everything that was happening in the Balkans, it was a very painful way to open our eyes.”
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