Vittorio Arrigoni

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Vittorio "Vik" Arrigoni (born February 4, 1975 in Besana in Brianza , † April 15, 2011 in Gaza ) was an Italian reporter , peace activist and active member of the pro-Palestinian international solidarity movement ISM . He was murdered.

activism

As a journalist and member of the International Solidarity Movement, he has been reporting from the Gaza Strip since 2008. In 2009 he published a collection of his reports from the Gaza Strip in the form of a book entitled Restiamo umani , which was also translated into German.

Kidnapping and murder

Arrigoni was kidnapped on April 14, 2011 by the Palestinian Islamist- Salafi group Tawhid wal-Jihad (" Tawhīd and Jihad "); a day later his body was found in an empty house. The group had asked Hamas, which also controls the Gaza Strip, to release its leader Hisham Saidani , who had been arrested in early March. The group had not waited for the result of their ultimatum.

Arrigoni's publisher in Germany, Giuseppe Zambon , suspected Israel to be behind the murder after the body was found . The same suspicion - cui bono ? - Inge Höger ( Die Linke ) , a member of the Bundestag, said : “The question that needs to be asked is: Who will benefit from these terrible crimes?” Henryk M. Broder called these statements anti-Semitic conspiracy theories , as they were not based on any facts.

The Hamas government in the Gaza Strip was able to identify Palestinian Salafists as perpetrators: two of them were killed during arrest and two others were sentenced to life imprisonment . Two accomplices received long prison sentences.

reception

In the title culture magazine, Peter Blastenbrei found the volume Palestine - Ethnic Cleansing and Resistance , written by Arrigoni as the main author and published by Zambon , "confused over long distances ... and riddled with minor and major errors". He criticized the imbalance, the extensive lack of political and economic analysis and the almost complete lack of verifiable sources, even with extremely controversial issues.

Publications (selection)

  • GAZA - staying human: December 2008 - July 2009. With a foreword by Ilan Pappe . 1st edition. Zambon, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-88975-157-7 (Italian: Restiamo Umani .).
  • Palestine - Ethnic Cleansing and Resistance , Editor: Giuseppe Zambon, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-88975-156-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Italian activist found dead in Gaza Strip
  2. ↑ On the murder of the 36-year-old peace activist Vittorio Arrigoni, his German publisher Dr. Giuseppe Zambon, press release of the Zambon Verlag published on April 15, 2011
  3. ↑ Murder of Vittorio Arrigoni: Uncertainty about murderers ( Memento of April 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). Meanwhile deleted press release on the website inge-hoeger.de , April 18, 2011.
  4. ^ Henryk M. Broder: Alcoholism and Anti-Semitism Have Much in Common , Die Welt, April 22, 2011
  5. ↑ Gaza Vittorio Arrigoni murder: Four Palestinians jailed , BBC, September 17, 2012.
  6. ↑ Peter Blastenbrei: Passion , title-culture magazine, December 16, 2011th
personal data
SURNAME Arrigoni, Vittorio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arrigoni, Vik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian author and peace activist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th February 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Besana in Brianza
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 2011
Place of death Gaza (city)