Riccardo Orioles, a 67-year-old
journalist who has spent his career writing on anti-mafia
issues, is to benefit from Italy's Bacchelli Law giving pensions
illustrious citizens who have fallen om hard times, the deputy
chair of the parliamentary Anti-Mafia Commission, Claudio Fava,
said Tuesday. "Today, March 21, Day of Remembrance for mafia
victims, for the first time a life spent writing on mafias and
their unnameable friends is considered a title of civic merit",
Fava wrote on Facebook. Fava said the pension also paid tribute
to "a generation of journalists and citizens" who have resisted
the mafia, such as Fava's father Giuseppe, who set up an
anti-mafia monthly, I Siciliani, before being gunned down in
1984.
photo: Giuseppe Fava's funeral
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