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Marco Luchetta

Marco Luchetta

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WHO WAS

Marco Luchetta was born in Trieste on December 22nd 1952. He entered  journalism at a very young age, dealing with sports for local broadcasters. His  distinctive hallmark was irony. “You can recognize us at first glance. Frenzied eyes, hair standing on end, unshaved: it seems that we dressed while a huge dog chased us …”: he wrote in 1979 in one of his ” Spagine “, the column he wrote in the weekly Telequattro.

He began to deal with current affairs and in 1989 he became a professional journalist. Shortly thereafter Luchetta joined the state broadcaster RAI, in its regional office of Friuli-Venezia Giulia. In 1991 the war in Yugoslavia erupted and as a RAI correspondent he reported on what was happening there. Whenever he returned home and was asked why he accepted such risky missions, he replied: “I go because you can’t let everything pass in silence. We must be witnesses, let people know. Think only of those children … “. In January 1994 he left for Bosnia, for the umpteenth mission, this time with technician Dario D’Angelo and videographer  Alessandro Ota. On January 28th  before returning to Trieste, they went to East Mostar, where a month earlier they had tried unsuccessfully to enter. Marco Luchetta had already done interviews in the western zone  but to complete the documentation he had to go to the other side of the city, where death struck him and his two colleagues.

READ HIS STORY

  • • Biography Marco Luchetta
    taken from the Luchetta Prize website
  • The story of Marco Luchetta
    taken from the collection edited by Monica Andolfatto for the book Day of Memory of Journalists killed by mafias and terrorism /em>, Rome, 2008

THE SEARCH FOR THOSE RESPONSIBLE

(Update by Grazia Pia Attolini – 3 May 2020)

Luchetta and his colleagues were victims of one of the intense daily bombings to which East Mostar was subjected. This is the most plausible explanation  of the deaths of the team from the state broadcaster RAI. Following the attack, an investigation was opened but was immediately closed.

The presence of Italian journalists and media workers in East Mostar was known, their having passed several checkpoints to reach Mostar, but the investigations did not reveal precise responsibilities regarding the intentionality of their killing by the Bosnian-Croatian forces.

RECOGNITION

  • 1994 – The Foundation created in Trieste immediately after the tragic events is dedicated to the memory of Marco Lucchetta, Alessandro Ota, Dario D’Angelo and Miran Hrovatin, a reporter from Trieste killed in Somalia together with the journalist Ilaria Alpi, has the aim of welcoming and supporting children with diseases that cannot be treated in their home countries.
  • 2004 – On the tenth anniversary of the tragic death of the RAI correspondents, the Foundation established the “Marco Luchetta International Award” dedicated to reportages that describe , with particular sensitivity, the violence towards and the abuse of children. The Prize, through the entries in the competition, brings to attention the most dramatic realities and tragedies in the world, and tries to raise public awareness of the denial of children’s rights. The stories of the Award also reach the general public thanks to the programme “Our Angels” which is broadcast every year on the main state channel RAI1 in the late evening. “Link”, the Trieste festival dedicated to good journalism, is also connected to the Prize.
  • 2007 – In Normandy, in Bayeux, on the initiative of the municipality and Reporters Without Borders, a memorial dedicated to reporters killed for their work is inaugurated. In a garden on the outskirts of Bayeux, gravestones divided by year bear the names of the journalists. Among these there is also that of Luchetta.
  • 2014 – A municipal garden in Trieste was dedicated to Luchetta, Ota, D’Angelo and Hrovatin.
  • In the municipality of Mostar, a plaque was placed on the site of the attack, at Brace Fejica no. 82ª, remembers Luchetta, Ota and D’Angelo.
  • At the Casa del Jazz in Rome he is commemorated on the Plaque of the innocent victims of mafia affixed to the entrance and in the Memorial Panel of Ossigeno per l’Informazione .

 

 

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