"We know almost everything about
what happened that afternoon on May 24, 2014. We have judicial
truth. What is still missing is the acknowledgment and sanction"
for those responsible for the attack launched by Ukrainian armed
forces "against unarmed photographers and journalists." That is
what was said today by Elisa Signori, mother of Andy Rocchelli,
the young photojournalist killed by mortar fire in 2014 in
Donbas while he was covering the suffering of the population
during the war, at the Permanent Committee on Human Rights in
the World, established by the Foreign Affairs Committee of the
Chamber of Deputies.
Alongside him, human rights activist Andrei Mironov, a Russian
human rights activist, was also killed, and French photographer
William Roguelon was injured. The issue of the killing of
Rocchelli and Mironov remains highly relevant, Signori
underlined, particularly in the context of increasing attacks on
journalists in war zones, including in the Gaza Strip.
Signori also criticized the "self-absolving" attitude adopted
by Ukrainian authorities during the judicial proceedings for the
Rocchelli case. "Impunity must be fought," Signori emphasized,
and "Italian authorities must demand truth and justice" from
Kyiv regarding the Rocchelli case, she appealed. "We have the
truth, but there is no justice," said Andy's father, Rino
Rocchelli.
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