The Italian Embassy in Bosnia and Herzegovina commemorated the journalist Marco Luchetta, cameraman Dario D'Angelo and technician Alessandro Saša Ota, from the RAI office in Trieste, on the occasion of the 31st anniversary of their death on 28 January 1994 during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The ceremony, chaired by Ambassador Castellani, was attended by the Mayor of Mostar Mario Kordić, the President of the Municipal Assembly of Mostar Đani Rahimić, the Italian Honorary Consul in Mostar Goran Grbešić, as well as representatives of the EU, UNDP and OSCE and the Department of Italian Studies of the Sveučilišta University of Mostar, and several representatives of civil society.
The commemoration took place as usual in the area where a grenade killed the three journalists.
After laying a floral wreath in their homage, the Ambassador remembered them as a virtuous example of free, intelligent and courageous journalism: "Their sacrifice", said the Ambassador, "can be a compass for the country to evolve into an open, cosmopolitan, democratic, multicultural society, far from the ethnic hatreds and nationalisms that have bloodied this land.
A society that can look forward to its European journey with confidence'.
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