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March 28, 2021 'Astolfo Bergman' signed his articles, to maintain the confidentiality imposed by the delicate role he played and to protect his own safety.

He was also a poet, but above all an activist, engaged as an observer of the UN for the respect of the peace accords in Colombia.

These are just some of the many facets of the personality of Mario Paciolla, the Neapolitan boy killed on 15 July 2020 in his home in San Vicente del Caguán.

Eight months later, all the questions still remain unanswered and the suicide trail does not even convince the Rome prosecutor's office, which has opened a murder investigation.



On the day Mario would have turned 34, the International Festival of Civil Journalism, 'Imgavagliati', collects the voices and appeals of the boy's parents, lawyers and the #giustiziaperMarioPaciolla group to promote an online meeting, with the aim of keep the spotlight on each other and don't leave the family alone.

An initiative that also brings together the National Federation of the Italian Press, the Unitary Union of Journalists of Campania and Articolo21.

A way to join forces, because as one of the lawyers, Manuela Motta, points out, "it's not family and friends' business, but it affects us all. Mario fought precisely for this idea"



Many of the interventions, coordinated by the creator and director by Imbavagliati, Désirée Klain, focus on Paciolla's civil and professional commitment.

His mother Anna, on the other hand, prefers to tell the more human side of Mario.

"One day we had the plumber at home - he says - we invited him to stay for lunch with us, but he refused out of discretion, explaining that he would have preferred to eat his sandwich. Mario, who was 5 years old, went to his grandmother's kitchen. prepare a sandwich and went out to eat it with him. It is an episode that describes Mario well, a boy who persevered in his goals, who worked to achieve them in every way, always gave himself so much to do ".



The request for truth and justice, remarked by Klain, is also joined by the president of the Fnsi, Giuseppe Giulietti: "It is a fight against oblivion, lies and misdirection - he argues - a fight already known with Giulio Regeni, Andy Rocchelli , Ilaria Alpi, Miran Hrovatin, Valeria Solesin and many others. These cases have a link, because they are curious young people, who couldn't stand walls and built bridges to unite diversity. They weren't killed by mistake, they were doing their own I work as peacemakers, researchers, journalists ".

Giulietti relaunches the concept of 'media escort', in an attempt to "leave no one alone, reconstruct the text and context of an assassination and give voice to the initiatives in the field".