ITALY: ROMAN'S GATHER OUTSIDE CITY HALL TO SHOW SOLIDARITY WITH ITALIAN JOURNALIST GIULIANA SGRENA KIDNAPPED IN IRAQ

Record ID: 647443

  • Title: ITALY: ROMAN'S GATHER OUTSIDE CITY HALL TO SHOW SOLIDARITY WITH ITALIAN JOURNALIST GIULIANA SGRENA KIDNAPPED IN IRAQ
  • Date: 5th February 2005
  • Summary: (BN14) ROME, ITALY (FEBRUARY 5, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. WIDE VIEW OF ROME'S CAPITOLINE HILL 0.05 2. (SOUNDBITE) (Italian) JOURNALIST GIULIANA SGRENA'S PARTNER, PIERLUIGI SCOLARI, SAYING: "Guiliana was trying to tell everything from the point of view of the Iraqi people, that's why she was taking her car and going around Iraq and that's what made her fall in this ambush. On the other hand she always said you couldn't tell the stories of the country staying in a hotel room." 0.25 3. STATUE AT THE SQUARE 0.28 4. MAN HOLDING A COPY OF IL MANIFESTO NEWSPAPER, SGRENAS NEWSPAPER 0.33 (NIGHTSHOTS) 5. ZOOM OUT: BANNER WITH SGRENAS UNVEILED ON THE BUILDING/ PAN TO PEOPLE CLAPPING 0.49 6. WIDE OF RALLY WITH PHOTO IN THE BACKGROUND 0.54 7. CU: FORMER IRAQ HOSTAGE SIMONA TORRETTA STANDING IN THE CROWD 1.03 8. CROWD 1.06 9. PEOPLE HOLDING CANDLES 1.11 10. CLOSE UP POSTER OF SGRENA 1.17 11. SIMONA TORRETTA AND SIMONA PARI, ALSO FORMER IRAQ HOSTAGE, STANDING IN CROWD 1.22 12. TILT: PEACE FLAG CARRIED IN RALLY 1.26 13. CU: WOMEN STANDING WITH CANDLES 1.31 14. PHOTOGRAPH SEEN THROUGH THE CROWD 1.37 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 20th February 2005 12:00
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  • Location: ROME, ITALY
  • Country: Italy
  • Reuters ID: LVA4MFFJETTY2T7ULIKH8SFBUNFQ
  • Story Text: Italians rally in support of abducted journalist in
    Iraq.


    Close to two hundred people gathered in front of
    Rome's city hall on the Capitoline Hill on Saturday
    (February 5) to show solidarity with the Italian hostage
    Giuliana Sgrena, kidnapped in Iraq on Friday (February 4).

    Romans carried torches and candles as a large poster of
    Sgrena was unfolded on the city hall.

    Sgrena's partner, Pierluigi Scolari, arrived at the
    rally and said his wife was trying to tell the story of
    Iraq from its citizens point of view.

    "Guiliana was trying to tell everything from the point
    of view of the Iraqi people, that's why she was taking her
    car and going around Iraq and that's what made her fall in
    this ambush. On the other hand she always said you couldn't
    tell the stories of the country staying in a hotel room"
    said Scolari.

    Also in the crowd were Simona Torretta and Simona Pari,
    two aid workers who were held hostage in Iraq for three
    weeks. Their release last September caused a national joy.

    In the first abduction of a foreigner since the Iraqi
    elections, Sgrena, a correspondent for Rome-based Communist
    newspaper Il Manifesto, was snatched from the street while
    she was interviewing people near Baghdad University.

    Her kidnap has caused nationwide emotion and
    dominated news bulletins, where it knocked news of Pope
    John Paul's health off the top spot for the first time
    since Tuesday night, when the pontiff was rushed to
    hospital with breathing problems.

    A little-known Iraqi group, the Islamic Jihad
    Organisation, said in a Web statement it had taken Sgrena
    hostage and set a 72-hour deadline for Italy to remove its
    troops but did not make a specific threat against her. It
    was not possible to verify the statement.


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