Walter Tobagi, a Corriere della Sera
journalist gunned down in Milan on May 28, 1980, was "a free
journalist who represented what the Brigaders denied and wanted
to cancel," President Sergio Mattarella told the Milan newspaper
on the 40th anniversary of Tobagi's death at the age of 33.
Praising Tobagi's "courage and authoritativeness", Mattarella
said Tobagi was "a free journalist who probed reality beyond
stereotypes and prejudices, and the terrorists did not tolerate
narratives that were different from those of their ideological
schemes".
Tobagi (March 18, 1947 - May 28, 1980) was an Italian
journalist and writer. He was killed in a terrorist attack by
the XXVIII March Brigade, a left-wing terrorist group.
Thursday was also the anniversary of the 1974 Piazza della
Loggia rightist terrorist massacre in Brescia that killed eight
people and wounded 102.
Mattarella said "Brescia is an example, united today and 46
years ago".
He noted that it had also remained united in he face of the
COVID crisis, which has hit the Lombardy city particularly hard.
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