Rocchelli's mother: after judicial truth, sanction is needed

(ANSA) - TRIESTE, JUL 3 - "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. (ANSA).