Covid, who died at the age of 67 Mario Proto: pillar of Roman photojournalism

2020-12-14T10:34:16.289Z

The world of Roman journalism is in mourning for the death of Mario Proto, a photographer who with his images has told all the facts of the city for almost 50 years, large and small. On the field since 1973, with his camera he has seen and documented - among the first - the massacre of Aldo Moro's escort in via Fani, the story of Alfredino Rampi, the child who fell in June 1981 in a well in the countryside of Vermicino , the capture of Renato Vallanzasca, the arrest of the Pope's bomber, Ali Agca, who was the first to photograph along a corridor of the police station in via di San Vitale. For years in service for the Corriere della Sera, he was a point of reference for at least two generations of reporters and young photographers. The joke always ready, a kind smile for everyone. Mario Proto has also followed the great mysteries of the 90s, from the crime in via Poma to that of Olgiata up to the murder of Marta Russo, the student murdered at La Sapienza University. Recently he had also followed the investigation into the crime of Mario Cerciello Rega, the deputy sergeant of the carabinieri shot to death near Piazza Cavour in the summer of 2019. Among the latest images he had published also those of a deserted Rome, frightened and upset by Covid, the bad that last night he took it away at the age of 67.