Ilaria Alpi

Ilaria Alpi

Ilaria Alpi (born May 24, 1961 in Rome , † March 20, 1994 in Mogadishu ) was an Italian journalist . The Ilaria Alpi Prize was named after her.

Life

Already during her childhood she cultivated a passion for traveling and for foreign cultures. Writing travel diaries sparked her interest in journalism . After finishing her school career, she studied literature and oriental languages at the University of Rome . After completing her studies, she traveled to Cairo for three years . There she worked as a freelancer for Italian daily newspapers. Because of her knowledge of Arabic and her work, Radiotelevisione Italiana was also interested in her. For her first post, she traveled to Somalia.

Trip to Somalia and assassination

At the beginning of 1994 she researched illegal transports of toxic waste to Somalia, initially in Croatia , but without much success there. She then traveled to Somalia (which she had already visited several times ) and, together with her cameraman Miran Hrovatin , observed the loading of toxic waste in Bosaso , and she managed to film. A few hours after an interview with Abdullahy Mussa Bogor, Sultan of Bosaso, about illegal arms transports, she and her cameraman were shot in Mogadishu. As a result of the murder, the Italian parliament set up a commission of inquiry. The murder has not yet been resolved.

Others

• The fate of Ilaria Alpi was filmed in 2002 under the title "Deadly Reportage".

Web links

• Page from Journalists Help about Ilaria Alpi ( Memento from June 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
• ARTE page on the Ilaria Alpi case

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1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from June 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from January 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ http://www.arte.tv/de/1277258,CmC=1274080.html  ( 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.