Giovanni Spampinato

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Giovanni Spampinato

Giovanni Spampinato ( November 6, 1946 - October 27, 1972 ) was an Italian investigative journalist for the Palermitan daily L'Ora ("The Hour") in Ragusa , Sicily , Italy . He reported on the connection between Mafiosi Roberto Campria and a murder in February 1972. Eight months later, Spampinato was murdered himself.

Personal

In their youth, the brothers Alberto and Giovanni were influenced by their father Peppino, who was an active communist and had fought in Yugoslavia. Both brothers became journalists. After completing his philosophy studies at the University of Catania in 1969, Giovanni Spampinato started working for the daily newspaper L'Ora . He was a member of the Communist Party of Italy and ran for political office - without success.

Career

Giovanni Spampinato worked as an investigative journalist for L'Ora, a communist daily newspaper. He wrote about fascists in the cities of Ragusa and Catania . He also reported on the involvement of the Sicilian Mafia in the murder of Angelo Tumino, an antique dealer. The journalist also mentioned the man who later confessed to having murdered Spampinato: Roberto Campria. In his newspaper articles, Spampinato Cambrias examined Mafia contacts and their links to the murder case. In 2008 the Spampinato family received an anonymous and previously unknown letter about the motives behind the bloody act. Accordingly, Tumino was the victim of a jealous drama. After Tumino's death on February 25, 1972, Spampinato researched the case and published detailed information about the Sicilian mafia.

L'Ora was discontinued in 1992. The daily newspaper first came onto the market at the beginning of the 20th century.

death

Robert Campria ambushed Giovanni Spampinato at around 11 a.m. on October 27 near a prison in Ragusa. Campria fired six shots with his Smith & Wesson revolver at Spampinato in his white Fiat 500. After that, Campria went to the prison and confessed to the murder. He said he killed Spampinato in a fit of rage because the latter falsely accused him of working for the Mafia. Campria was initially sentenced to 24 years in prison. In an appeal process, the sentence was reduced to 14 years, of which he only served eight years.

context

The Italian city of Ragusa by night.

The Sicilian Mafia, also known as Cosa Nostra ("Our Cause"), murdered twelve other journalists in addition to Spampinato. In 1960 Cosimo Cristina was found dead on the train tracks. In 1970 Mauro De Mauro disappeared after revealing details about the death of the politician Enrico Mattei . Cristina, De Mauro and Spampinato worked at L'Ora . Under the leadership of Vittorio Nistico, this newspaper repeatedly published information about the Mafia. Other journalists who were murdered by the Sicilian Mafia were Giuseppe Impastato (1978), Carmine "Mino" Pecorelli (1979), Mario Francese (1979), Giuseppe Fava (1984), Giancarlo Siani (1985), Mauro Rostagno (1988) and Beppe Alfano (1993). These journalists mostly worked at the local level and were not known nationwide.

Effects

Due to the murder of his brother, Alberto Spampinato founded the non-governmental organization Ossigeno per l'informazione Osservatorio (literally: oxygen for information), which works with Freedom House , Reporters Without Borders and the European Center for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF) and the situation of journalists observed in Italy as well as their safety.

Reactions

Alberto Spampinato, journalist for the Ansa agency and co-author of the book Vite ribelli , describes his brother: "A slender fellow who looked gentle and harmless on the outside. But behind his glasses, behind the glasses for myopia, curiosity, intelligence and desire sparkled in his eyes . "

Some newspapers described him as a "torturer", "a communist blinded by class hatred", who targeted this "man from a good family" and destroyed his life and reputation. After his death, Spampinato began to be recognized as a journalist who was murdered for his occupation.

Prices and perception

In 2007 Giovanni Spampinato was posthumously awarded the Special Jury Prize of the Saint-Vincent Journalism Prize.

Year after year the city of Ragusa sponsors a discussion event about Spampinato and the facts surrounding his murder.

Media to Spampinato

  • C'erano at cani ma molto seri (2009)
  • L'ora di Spampinato (2012 film)

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ La vita di Giovanni . In: giovannispampinato.it .
  2. ↑ a b c Attualità Ragusa - Caso Spampinato, spunta una lettera anonima. Inedita - RagusaNews . In: ragusanews.com .
  3. ^ Libro Memoria Giovanni Spampinato. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on January 29, 2019 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / notiziario.ossigeno.info  
  4. ^ Libri un ritratto di Giovanni Spampianto. Retrieved January 29, 2019 .
  5. ↑ LIBRI: UN RITRATTO DI GIOVANNI SPAMPINATO, REPORTER CHE RACCONTAVA LA MAFIA . In: repubblica.it .
  6. ↑ a b Il figlio del giudice e due pistole per uccidere il giornalista curioso . In: corriere.it .
  7. ↑ a b c d e spampinato delitto perbene . In: Archivio - la Repubblica.it .
  8. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Giornalismo d 'inchiesta un' avventura in Sicilia . In: Archivio - la Repubblica.it .
  9. ↑ a b c d e f g Ma quanti giornalisti nel mirino dei boss . In: l'Espresso . November 13, 2014.
  10. ↑ a b c d e f Nisticò, giornalista eretico che fece grande 'L' Ora ' . In: Archivio - la Repubblica.it .
  11. ↑ a b Mafia against journalists ( German ) January 28, 2010.
  12. ↑ 'L' Ora ', c' era una volta un giornale di frontiera . In: Archivio - la Repubblica.it .
  13. ^ Ossigeno Informazione . In: ossigeno.info . Archived from the original on September 26, 2015. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 16, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / notiziario.ossigeno.info
  14. ^ John Dickie: Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia . St. Martin's Press, 2015, ISBN 978-1-4668-9305-4 (English, limited preview in Google book search).
  15. ↑ a b La storia di Giovanni Spampinato . In: Ossigeno Informazione (ossigeno.info) . Archived from the original on October 3, 2015. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 16, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / notiziario.ossigeno.info
  16. ↑ La storia di Giovanni Spampinato. Torna il libro da cui è nato ossigeno - Narcomafie . In: narcomafie.it .
  17. ↑ ITALY Saint-Vincent Journalism Awards tomorrow, AsiaNews among the winners - Asia News . In: asianews.it .
  18. ^ La morte di Giovanni Spampinato in un film. "Ragusa dimentica, noi vogliamo sapere" . In: MeridioNews .
  19. ^ Rai Storia: Diario Civile - Il rumore delle parole. Storia di Giovanni Spampinato . In: Rai Storia .
personal data
SURNAME Spampinato, Giovanni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian investigative journalist
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1946
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 1972