Ambassador Attanasio’s wife: ‘That day I had to be with him’

In the days when the investigation by the Rome prosecutor’s office clarifies the contours of the ambush in which, in the Congo, in February of last year, the hero ambassador Luca Attanasio was killed together with the carabiniere Vittorio Iacovacci, new details on the dramatic one day emerge from a book that has just come out.
From the pages of “Luca Attanasio. Story of an ambassador of peace”, edited for Piemme by the journalist Fabio Marchese Ragona, speaking is Zakia Seddiki, the wife of Attanasio, the woman of Moroccan origin whom the diplomat had met in a previous mission in Morocco and with whom he was raising a young family with three young daughters. “Monday 22 February 2021. I had to be with Luca”, writes Zakia in the volume that collects the voices of those who knew the Italian diplomat as well as his wife and childhood friends and the parish of Limbiate where he grew up. “I was supposed to be with Luca – reveals Zakia Seddiki – but this time due to a coincidence, my mother who couldn’t keep the girls, I was forced to stay in Kinshasa”.
“It was a very normal morning, like all the others – he says -, I had prepared the girls and I was taking them to school by car. The traffic was particularly congested. I knew that Luca was planning to pay a visit to the Pam project concerning canteens and that he was always with Vittorio. He had called his mother Alida for a short greeting and then he had called me too. It was 8 in the morning “. Shortly thereafter, Attanasio would have died for only 50,000 dollars, as the investigation has now reconstructed.
Zakia also writes the introduction of the book explaining that the volume “was born so that his death could be like a flower that blooms for many others who want to follow his example”.
“Who was Luca? He was a dreamer who looked at the world like a beautiful garden, always with great motivations, very serious and precise at work: despite his angel’s face, he would get very angry if things weren’t done with fairness and honesty” .

Source: Ansa

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