Dario D'Angelo

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Memorial plaque in Trieste

Dario D'Angelo (born July 6, 1947 in Trieste , † January 28, 1994 in Mostar ) was an Italian journalist who was killed together with Marco Luchetta and Alessandro Saša Ota during the war in Bosnia while working for the Rai .

Life

D'Angelo was born in the Barcola district of Trieste and grew up in Prosecco. After compulsory school he became an electrician apprentice. He completed his military service in Bologna , after which he trained in telecommunications at evening school and worked for an ironworks in Servola. In 1971 he married Gianna, with whom he had a daughter. From 1980 he worked as a recording assistant for the Rai , and from 1990 he traveled through Jugoslavia several times on the occasion of the 10-day war , the fall of communism in Albania , the Croatian war and the Bosnian war .

death

On January 28, 1994 he was in Mostar with Marco Luchetta and Alessandro Saša Ota for a report about the suffering of children in the war. There, the three journalists fell victim to a grenade . The child they interviewed at that moment was only slightly injured.

In memory of the three journalists and Miran Hrovatin (also from Trieste), the Fondazione Luchetta Ota D'Angelo Hrovatin , which took care of the medical care of war disabled children, was set up. In 2014 a public garden in Trieste was named after the four. D'Angelo is also the namesake for the category of the best internationally published article at the Premio Luchetta .

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Guido Vitale: Gli incubi di Dario. Premio Luchetta, accessed January 26, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Storia. Fondazione Luchetta Ota D'Angelo Hrovatin, accessed January 26, 2019 .
  3. ^ Giornalisti: a Trieste giardino in memoria vittime Mostar. Cerimonia con Siddi e Rossi (Fnsi) per Luchetta, Ota, D'Angelo, Hrovatin. Articolo 21, liberi di…, May 12, 2014, accessed on January 26, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Premio Luchetta. Retrieved January 26, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME D'Angelo, Dario
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian journalist
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Trieste
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1994
Place of death Mostar