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11 September 2019Pero Scaramucci, long a RAI journalist and then founder and director of Radio Popolare, died in Milan at the age of 82. Scaramucci was born in Prague in 1937, leaving his wife Mimosa Burzio and daughter Marianna.

He joined RAI in 1961 and remained there until 1992 when he took over as director of Radio Popolare, which he had helped found in 1976. After 10 years as director, Scaramucci resigned in 2002 but was always linked to the radio as a member and then as president of the workers' cooperative.

Journalism teacher
He was a member of the National Council of FNSI and a member of the Board of the Lombard Association of Journalists. He worked on the drafting and drafting of the Statute of the National Press Federation. He also taught at the Journalism School of the Lombardy Journalists' Association, at the Radiotelevisione della Italiana Italiana and at the IULM of Milan.

Scaramucci died this morning at the Humanitas clinic, where he had been hospitalized since mid-August for an aneurysm. "Piero Scaramucci was the editor of the political-editorial project that gave rise to Radio Popolare; he was director in the very first phase of the life of the radio, which he returned to direct in 1992, remaining in charge until 2002. Programs today of the schedule will be dedicated to the figure of Piero ", reads the site of the radio.

Anpi's friends
Among the first to remember the figure of Scaramucci, the president of the provincial ANPI of Milan Roberto Cenati explained that "our analyzes have always been fundamental, in-depth, stimulating and never banal on the political, economic and social situation of our country We last saw each other on August 10th, in Piazzale Loreto, on the 75th anniversary of the 15 martyrs' massacre, and we promised ourselves that we would resume the initiative of our Association to counteract the resurgence of neo-fascist movements and the growing climate of hatred and intolerance that is sweeping our country ".

Scaramucci was vice president of the Anpi Almo Colombo section of the Isola neighborhood. "We will always remember Piero with emotion and affection. To his wife Mimosa, to his daughter Marianna, to family members we express the affectionate closeness of the whole Anpi," concludes Cenati.

The memory of mayor Sala
"He recounted the hottest years of our country with devotion to the truth and with extraordinary competence. Milan remembers him fondly". The mayor of Milan, Giuseppe Sala, wrote this on Twitter, commenting on the disappearance of the journalist.