by Alberto Spampinato
Alberto Spampinato is the founder of Ossigeno per l’informazione (oxygen through information), a Rome-based observatory that monitors violations of press and media freedom in Italy. Ossigeno is a partner organisation of the EPMF. This is the story of his journalist brother who was murdered on this day 45 years ago.
The Italian journalist Giovanni Spampinato
When he was murdered, forty-five years ago, my brother Giovanni was 25 years old. For three years he had been a reporter for the daily evening newspaper L’Ora di Palermo. He was the special correspondent from Ragusa, a quiet town located in the far South East side of Sicily. That newspaper ceased to exist…
