Vittorio Arrigoni on the cover of Courrier International, the French equivalent of our 'International' (photo taken from Facebook) In three years he had become a "national" of Gaza, respected by the people who attended a human shield by the farmers on the border with Israel or fishermen who ventured beyond three miles from the coast, where he takes the Israeli blockade.
And it is in Gaza that he met his death Vittorio Arrigoni, "Vik" to his friends, the 36-year old activist Lombard International Solidarity Movement. His group had already had one dead, the American peace activist Rachel Corrie, crushed by an Israeli bulldozer in March 2003 while trying to prevent the demolition of Palestinian houses in Rafah.
"Utopia" as it was dubbed, a native of Bulciago, a village of 2700 inhabitants in the province of Lecco, had arrived in Gaza in August 2008 and with its commitment to peace had won both the threats of the extreme Israeli right that the Salafis Muslims who considered him too close to the government the "enemy" of Hamas.
GuerrillaRadio In his blog, the title of a song by Rage Against the Machine, told the suffering of the Palestinian people and even in those days had documented the Israeli raids in Gaza and the Palestinian deaths in the tunnels from Egypt. In December 2008 he told the Israeli offensive on Gaza molten lead.
Its correspondent for the event ends in the same way: "Human remains", title of his book also translated into four languages (in Italy for manifestolibri). In the experience of Gaza, Arrigoni had repeatedly risked his own safety alongside Palestinian farmers and fishermen, as shown by the two videos below, in which the activist is grazed by a bullet and is located on board a vessel Palestinian.
The recent controversy with Roberto Saviano, who last October took part in the conference 'The truth! To Israel ' organized in Rome by journalist Fiamma Nirenstein. In a video posted on his blog responding Arrigoni author of Gomorrah, asking him not to forget the atrocities suffered by the Palestinian people.
In the last days of the siege Arrigoni had occuipato in Itamar, near the village of Jewish theater in recent weeks of the massacre of a family of settlers. 
And it is in Gaza that he met his death Vittorio Arrigoni, "Vik" to his friends, the 36-year old activist Lombard International Solidarity Movement. His group had already had one dead, the American peace activist Rachel Corrie, crushed by an Israeli bulldozer in March 2003 while trying to prevent the demolition of Palestinian houses in Rafah.
"Utopia" as it was dubbed, a native of Bulciago, a village of 2700 inhabitants in the province of Lecco, had arrived in Gaza in August 2008 and with its commitment to peace had won both the threats of the extreme Israeli right that the Salafis Muslims who considered him too close to the government the "enemy" of Hamas.
GuerrillaRadio In his blog, the title of a song by Rage Against the Machine, told the suffering of the Palestinian people and even in those days had documented the Israeli raids in Gaza and the Palestinian deaths in the tunnels from Egypt. In December 2008 he told the Israeli offensive on Gaza molten lead.
Its correspondent for the event ends in the same way: "Human remains", title of his book also translated into four languages (in Italy for manifestolibri). In the experience of Gaza, Arrigoni had repeatedly risked his own safety alongside Palestinian farmers and fishermen, as shown by the two videos below, in which the activist is grazed by a bullet and is located on board a vessel Palestinian.
The recent controversy with Roberto Saviano, who last October took part in the conference 'The truth! To Israel ' organized in Rome by journalist Fiamma Nirenstein. In a video posted on his blog responding Arrigoni author of Gomorrah, asking him not to forget the atrocities suffered by the Palestinian people.
In the last days of the siege Arrigoni had occuipato in Itamar, near the village of Jewish theater in recent weeks of the massacre of a family of settlers.
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