Italian ambassador and a carabiniere executed in Congo, an impenetrable vest might have saved their lives
The Italian representative to Congo Luca Attanasio and the carabiniere Vittorio Iacovacci were slaughtered in a firefight: subsequently, it was anything but an execution. The principal consequences of the post-mortem examination requested on the bodies by the Rome Public Prosecutor’s Office and performed at the Gemelli Hospital uncovered. Attanasio and Iacovacci were hit by two projectiles each, in the firefight between their aggressors and the Congolese officers, who interceded to save the Virunga woods.
The main examination results along these lines uphold the speculation of an endeavored abducting that finished severely — and not of an assault pointed toward slaughtering as the Congolese president insisted — hindered by the unforeseen appearance of the officers. However, they actually don’t explain from which weapons the shots came. It isn’t yet certain whether the two Italians were casualties of agreeable fire or not. As indicated by what rises up out of the dissection, Ambassador Luca Attanasio was hit by two shots to the mid-region. The shots penetrated the body from left to right, both the passage and leave openings were distinguished.
The Italian negotiator kicked the bucket an hour later in the emergency clinic of the UN MONUSCO mission in Goma. From the second the conciliatory was shot to that he showed up at the medical clinic in Goma, where he kicked the bucket, 50 minutes have passed. A long and significant time in which maybe he might have been saved. “These are the expressions of Rocco Leone, overseer of the UN program of the World Food Program, who was a couple of meters from the guard assaulted in Congo, in which Ambassador Luca Attanasio and the carabiniere Vittorio Iacovacci lost their lives”.
Leone endures on the grounds that, as announced by the Italian “La Repubblica”, he was abandoned. At the point when the Kalashnikovs began shooting, the carabiniere Vittorio Iacovacci attempted to respond. Maybe he even attempted to shield Ambassador Luca Attanasio, in an outrageous and vain offer of assurance. On the two carcasses, there are the signs of five projectiles. With respect to the carabiniere Vittorio Iacovacci, who rather passed on in a flash, was hit in the flank zone and, at that point, at the base of the neck where a shot from an AK47 Kalashnikov was distinguished. The body of the carabiniere has numerous cracks on the left lower arm. This proposes that the slug that halted in the neck hit the cracked appendage first.
Regardless, ballistic assessments will explain whether the bodies were hit from close or far. What seems certain is that the two were shot during the shooting quickly following the seizing. As indicated by the public authority of Kinshasa — which blames the Hutus for the Democratic Liberation Forces of Rwanda (FDLR) of endeavored seizing for coercion purposes-the six attackers were outfitted with “five Kalashnikovs and a blade”. Yet, similar programmed rifles would likewise be provided to the gatekeepers of the public park where the trap occurred. Consequently, the Italian Special Scientific Forces “Ros”, in Goma since Wednesday, expected to check the officers’ weapons and contrast them with the shot found in Iacovacci’s body and to those found on the caravan’s vehicles.
The main recreations brought the questioning up in Italy on safety efforts for representatives abroad. The Italian Foreign Minister, Luigi Di Maio, announced in Parliament that he had requested that the United Nations open an examination concerning the demise of the two countrymen in Congo. Attanasio and Iacovacci were indeed on a UN mission, specifically, the World Food Program (WFP), and it was United Nations’ duty to arrange sufficient security. Numerous military specialists can’t help thinking about why the Italian diplomat and the carabiniere were going in an unarmoured vehicle, or more all why they didn’t wear an impenetrable vest, which might have saved their lives. The examination additionally prevented the primary proclamations from getting the Congolese president who promptly blamed Rwanda dissenter gatherings, rushed articulations maybe that could conceal different insider facts in a nation effectively brimming with secrets.
Ambassador Attanasio was one of the most youthful Italian ambassadors, connected to values and in adoration with Africa. The Ambassador leaves 3 little youngsters and a spouse with whom he had opened a mission for the insurance of ladies and kids in the African country. Carabiner Iacovacci should get hitched next June. Their bodies were welcomed at the Rome Ciampino military air terminal by Prime Minister Mario Draghi and Minister Di Maio. Recently they got the state memorial service and celebrated as legends by the entire country in stun that requests truth and equity.
