Hundreds of mourners said
farewell to Nadia Toffa at the 40-year-old journalist and TV
presenter's funeral in her native Brescia on Friday after her
death from cancer Tuesday.
Her family placed on her coffin her black tie from satirical
and investigative reporting show Le Iene (Reservoir Dogs).
The priest said "she was hungry for justice".
Toffa was a brave and determined investigative reporter who
often put her own safety on the line as she delivered big
stories for Le Iene on fraud against the national health
service, slot-machine scams, children's rights, the illegal
dumping and burning of trash in Campania and the impact on
people's health of pollution from the ILVA steel plant in
Taranto.
Indeed, the Puglia city gave her honorary citizenship.
She was promoted to being one of the Le Iene's presenters in
2016.
She was equally courageous in battling her disease after she
was diagnosed with cancer in 2017 and she wrote a book about the
fight.
In the book she wrote that she tried to see cancer as "a
gift, an opportunity" - comments that led her to coming under
heavy fire from online haters.
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